NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7983, 29 September 1887, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PHI* UMTED PR2SS ASSOCIATION.] ANOTHER FIRE I& AUCKLAND. Auckland, September 28. A nine-roomed house at Ponsonby, owned and occupied by . Mr. Potts, was destroyed by fire. Insured for £200, and furniture for £100, both in the South British. •BODY OF A CHILD POUND, A young woman named Mary o'Oonnell admits being the mother of the child whose dead body was found on Monday at the back of the Thistle Hotel. * SUDDEN DEATH. Napier, September 29. A man named Thos. Konner, aged 33, an inmate of the Refuge, was fonnd dead on his bed this morning. He evidently expired while undressing, it is supposed from heart disease. NORTH ISLAND TRUNK LiNK. Wellington, September 28. The CplomtU Treasurer fc&s made

arrangements which have given great satisfaction ia London, by which the necessity of negotiating the North Isiand Trunk Line Loan, or any other in substitution for ifc, during the present year is obviated. SMALLPOX IN T LAUSCESTOisT. The Government have received information showihg that the outbreak at Launcestoa ia really smallpox, and of a serious character. Fourteen cases have occurred, tHree ending fatally. Contrary to the usual custom the Tasmanian Government did not send notice to the various colonies, and the truth was only elicited as the result of telegrams to them. A proclamation will be gazetted to-day declaring Tasmania an infected colony, and all vessels arriving from her ports will be quarantined, ' Victoria has already stopped the Launoeston trade, and quarantined the boats plying there. IMPORTED MEiASLES. Three families who arrived by the lonic were sent to the quarantine station this morning, in oonsequence of some of their children suffering from a mild attack of measles. EELIGIOUS TRAINING IN SCHOOLS. In opening the diocesan synod, the Bishop of Wellington referred in strong terms to the lack of religious training in the colony, and that the New Zealand Legislature had gained unenviable notoriety by the exolusion of religious teaching from the State schools. His Lordship expressed his opinion that no system of education can be satisfactory that does not supply definite religious teaching, and that such definite teaching can only be given, in a country governed as this is, by leaving each so called religious denomination full liberty to teach its own children. THE CASTAWAYS ON THE OROZETS. Particulars about the supposed castaways at Crozets Island have been received. An albatross was picked up at Freemantle with a ring on its neck, with an insoriptionin Frenoh punctured on it. The inscription was to the effect that thirteen shipwrecked people had taken refuge on the Grozets on the 4th of August laßt. The Government of South Australia have telegraphed to Admiral Fairfax on the subject. MAN DROWNED. Ghristohttrch, September 28. John Ralph, a shepherd at St. Helens, was drowned while attempting to ford the Toko^oa river on horseback this morning. vwJS SUDDEN DEATH. Ohbistchuroh, September 29. Walter Hartnall, of Rakaia, a large farmer and one of the principal sheep dealers in Canterbury, died suddenly yesterday. It is supposed the cause of death was from heart disease.