NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2847, 16 June 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. CiiKiBTCHUKOK, June 15. Mrs E. C. J. Stevens has been elected a life member of the Canterbury Trotting Club. Dunedin, June 15. Robert Geoghan, an inmate of Scaclifl Asylum, from Southland, escaped from the institution yesterday and hanged himself in the bush. . A private telegram states that Mr C. Napier Bell has been instructed to prepare plans for a graving dock and patent slip at Fremantle. . Bhunnebton, June 15. The Magisterial enquiry concerning the Brunner disaster was resumed to-day. Inspector Cochrane has been under strong cross-examination all day. NaUieb, June 15. Tho building occupied by Peter Gillespie, tinsmith, in Emerson street, gutted by fire, was insured for .£4OO and the stock for ,£l7O in the United office, and the' furniture for £250 in the Northern office. Wawn’s restaurant and a small adjacent building occupied as a shop were destroyed by fire at Hastings this morning. The branch agency of the Napier Telegraph newspaper was damaged. Insurances — Wawn’s building, £125, London, Liverpool and Globe; Daily Telegraph office, £IOO, Alliance. Invekcabgill, June 15. The ketch Cavalier, forthe safety of which and a party of 20 Native mutton-birders fears were expressed, arrived at Riverton at 4 a.m. to-day. There is no information to hand as to the cause of the prolonged absence.