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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1138, 4 October 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

♦ — [fiiom. our own correspondent.] j WELLINGTON. Thin Day. r The police seem to have made I another blunder. On Saturday, a • cabman named John Andrews was ] driving home about two in the rnorn- > ing, when he came in contact with • another vehicle. The shock precipi- ! tated him to the ground, and he was [ picked up and placed in his cab. 3 A policeman took him in charge as - dru^k) and placed him in a cell, and he was given a blanket to sleep on. At 9 o'clock the Sergeant found the prisoner in an unconscious state. [ Medical assistance was procured, and i Andrews was conveyed to the hospital, , but never regained consciousness and expired at noon. The cause of death . was compression on the brain. Anl drews was aged 25, and leaves a wife 3 . and two children. An associate of f his says he saw him at 1.30 on Saturs day morning, when he was quite 3 sober. ' The Government have determined I to dispense with the services of Mr. I Conyers and Mr. Lawson, the Railway . Commissioners of the South and 1 North respectively. Notice to that i eftect has been given to them. ! AUCKLAND. This Day. A Tattersall's Club has been formed 1 here. Joe, the New Hebrides Native, was ■ committed for trial on Saturday for the murder of Henry Louis R«es, and \ also for unlawfully wounding Mrs. \ Arnold, and the boy Wilcott. ! Ail entertainment is to be given at ! the Theatre Royal for the benefit of ! the widow of the murdered man . Rees. \ NEW PLYMOUTH. This Day. > The remains of a female skeleton ' have been found in some gravel near Ngarei, on the Normanby railway. ! CHRISTCHUROH. This Day. The rain during the last two days ■ has greatly benefittecl the country s districts. The young crops are looking well. Weather is now fine.