TELEGRAPHIC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4896, 23 June 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

MELBOURNE, To-pay. Dr George Teague, a well-known homoepathist, died yesterday from the effect of a buggy accident. Telegraphic communication with Europe is interrupted owing to a break down on the Australia land line at Farna Port D.irwinand Adelaide. Lord Brassey has written to the Argus commenting on tho unsatisfactory condition of the Australian squadron and suggests that the Imperial Government should send four ironclads to be permanently stationed at Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart and Wellington. A ftncy dress ball given by the Governor last ni'j;hfc was the most brilliant ball ever held in Melbourne. SYDNEY, Today. The case against Wright Trenton in connection with the alleged railway frauds has been abandoned. DUNEDIN, Today. A lad named Charles Ernest Tousey, a High School pupil, was accidentally shot yesterday with a gun with which he had intended to go out rabbit shooting. His father resides in Melbourne. A constable at Port Chalmers has been missing for several days. It is supposed he must hava fallen oif the wharf while on his rounds. AUCKLAND, Today. The body of the man found in the harbor has been identified as that of Fergus Cleary, laborer, of Te Awamutu. CBRISTCHURCU, To-day. C. Bardslay, book hawker, was found dead under a gorae fence. There were no signs of violence on the body. WELLINGTON, To-day. A man named Thomas Thompson appeared in the Court this morning on five charges of burglary and house breaking at tho Hutt. Considerable sums of money and jewellery have been lost by residents there. Thompson was remanded for a week. A compensation case began to-day in which the trustees of Rhodea' estate claim ten thousand pounds from the Government. The land had been taken for a Battery site, and the claim is for damage done to the estate. MASTERTON, To-day.

A man named John Williams went into the bedroom of a settler named J. Hurley at the Union boarding house and was stabbed by the latter in the groin. Hurley was brought before the R.M. this morning and remanded.