TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1508, 20 May 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A Maori woman ha* been burned to death in a whare at Kirikiri, Auckland* Mrs J. Sheath, wife of the postmaster at Tauranga, was drowned in the Otaki river on Sunday, The net amount collected et Wellington for the Taiaroa Keliaf Fund is £203 7", which has been divided na followa :—Mra McPhee, M«rgaret Hill,' and Annie Morrison, all of Danedin, £33 e«ch, and the balance, £139 7s, to Mrs Hawkios, of Wellington. The arrivedat-WMlington from Napier on Monday after a 46" hours' phi■age. She experi*need a heavy gale and terrific sea. The Appeal Court at Wellington waa occupied on Monday hearing argument in Miles, Archer and Co. v. Houre it uxor (Timaru). The appeal was dismissed with coats on the highest scale. At the nomination for a director of the Government Insurance Association Messn G. S. Graham and G. V. Shannon weie the only two nominated. At the District Court, Hokitikii, on Monday, Heinrich Deneker, for fraudulent bankruptcy in not disclosing property, was acquitted, the jury saying that lie had no intention to commit a fraud. W. H. Davenport, formerly a grocer, at Cbristchurch,cuthis throat at hia residence, Sydenham, at 11 a.m. on Monday. He bad been very unwell and low-spirited for a considerable time. Mr Davenport w*<t well koown in jTimaru, having reside;! there for several years. The fish ponds in the Acclimatisation Society's ground, Chrietcbureh, were flooded on Saturday, and all the young; 'salmon (about 500); havebeenloH iu consequence. The perch, and the Loch liven and American brook trout, fared no better. Mr S. C. Farr, Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society, e?timates the lots at £SOO. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on the bodies of the two children burned to death at Mornington on Saturday, Some interesting revelations were made at the Adcklaod United Charitable Aid Board by the Believing Officer and Inspector of the Industrial Institution as to how children are got into the Industrial Institutions. The man Neate, not O'Neill, died on Siturday at Gisborne from injuries received. In his dying deposition he swore positively that Rolland shot him and struck him over the head with an axe. At th. 3 inquest a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Holland. Bolland was brought before the Magistrate on Tuesday and remanded until Saturday. During the past week several residents of Taipuhuna, 60 miles distant from Ruspehu, have witnessed at intervals immense volume* of steam rising from the sammit of the mountain, which is at present one mass of snow. The steam seems to rise out of the side of the crater which the natives say has been remembered as extinct from time immemorial. The Alameda with the April English mails left San Francisco for Auckland on the Bth inst., time-table date. The Mariposa with the April colonial mails arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 16th inst., one day earlier than time* table date. John Frosdyke, who was seriously burned at the fire at Borsboom's lodginghouse, Auckland, haa died at the hospital. At the inquent on the first victim, who is etill unidentified, a verdict of death from a fall was returned. , A rider was added to the effect that official supervision of boarding and lodging-houses should be enforced, and fire-escapes ineistod, on. At a meeting at Wellington'of the creditors of J. S. Beid, the Official Assignee ttated that: a valuation of the debtor's furniture made, by an experienced valuer was £370 belo* that made by the debtor himself. He expected the estate to pay 4s 6J in the £. Beplying to questions, Beid stated that hie income amounted to about £720, including £IBO, which was his wife's private income. The debtor stated that none of'the creditors' money had been used to settle his liability to the United Insurance Company, but friends had coma to his aid. The meeting adjourned tj get a fuller statement. At: a meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board at Invercargill on Tuesday the tax put upon the district funds by the influx from other localities of .destitute women about to become mother* of illegitimate children was the subject of discuasioj. It was rejolved to pay the expenses of sendine; such persons back to where they came from. A committee was appointed to take jn>'! ; .miiiAry st<;ps towards the erection of * hoKiv, for the aged and infirm".*