TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5015, 26 September 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Pres* Association.)' '* WELLINGTON, September 23. A cottage situated at Karori, and occupied by 1 uke O'Couor, dairyman, ,and his family, was burned down this morning. Very little was saved. The building was insured in tht liq iitab c Company, buc the con tea ta frere uninsured. It has been decided to erect a home for the aged and needy, the contract price being £3616. At the E.M. Court this; afternoon Alfred Robin and Alfred Worsfold, clerks in the employ of the- Gear Meat Company, were committed for trial on charges of alleged embezzlement of money belonging to the firm. 4 September 25. At the inquest on the body of the Maori found in the bush near Sandon, a verdict of felo de se was returned. The body has been identified as that of a Native rangatira from the upper river. The motive for committing the act cannot be explained. Messrs Frazer and Menteath, candidates for the Te Aro, addressed the electors last night, each receiving vote of confidence. It is expected that the contest between the two will be keen. AUCKLAND, September 23. Some discussion ia proceeding with respect to the granting of a jhalf holiday on poliing day. .The Mayor has declined to take this step, as he thinks the extension of houra of polling affords plenty of time'to''electors to record tbeir .votes, end moreover considers ' the graining vi% holiday on such occnsiona migljt have tendency to cause a turbulence. At the Police Court to-day C. Smith was fined £2 or seven days impiijsouruentfui b ing drunk on a lailwi.y line... L The . evidence, sbowect thui p 'isoner and another m-in w re lung close 10 the hue win n. the tra n was npiTOacbing, and their hnadß would-probab'j have beea cut • ff tiad the men not been removed, the train r'te'in^'sto ped. The s:>ond trial in the cci. brated oase of perjury Hgairb Ho r^ ie Miiuiba, whicii has occupied ihe attention of tbe Supreme o<-urt for some days, terminated jei-t r «ay «ye ing io a verdict of " Guiiiy " Sen>-nce'w»s daferred, a* Mr 0 M-aghpr will te-m-itrow morning make apyiica ioj for a new rial, on til- ground of an improper affidavit l avflig been enterec). Mr H. W. Far nail has retired rom tha contett for Auckland Notth. : Sept'inb'er 23. One of the crew of the batqu« Ptt, a Norweprjau, named Lars L&rsen, aged 80, died one day before sh* arrived iv poit. He had evidently been ddoking before joining the vfssel, and is gaid to hava been injured on tbe Chinese Empress, the vessel en which he w>iikcd previouisly. : Considerable alarm was created by a rumor , which was widely circulated that ihe s.s, Maraioa, which left to-day for Melbourne, was seen to be on fir<? off Ocean Bea-'h. The report appears to have been stsrfcd by soma passengers by the Southern expi'esa train, but no one can Fay who is tbe author o£ it. .-.o far as it is possible to say, • tha'e appears to be no foundation to the rumor. TheMariroa took a good many passengers, and 'the circulation of tbe tumor caused great; alarm among1 those who bad only patted with their friends and relatives a few hours before. . September 25. Arrived—Barque Star of the East, Captain Esson, 109 days, from New York. Sha brinf.'s 1050 tons of cargo for Dnnedin and 350 for Auckland.