NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8246, 20 August 1888, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOOIATipN.J DEATH TIIHOOGH EXPOSURE!. Auckland, August 20. At Shelly Beach, Kaiparu harbor, a man named Henry Prout was found clinging to a capsized boat. Ho was brought aßbore, but died booh f.f*er reaching land. It is feared that another man named Peter Trown, ■who was in Prout's company, has been drowned. FIRK IN HOUfON STREET. iVA fire cconrrcd at 7.80 on Friday night in a two storied block of buildings ;q Sobiott-etreet, wbioh resulted ia

the destruction of three shops, with dwellings attaohed, occupied by Misses Bay (dressmakers), Robert Mitchell (upholsterer), andßobinson (chemist) A fireman named George Fiulay was seriously hurt by a sheet of galvanised iron fr'ling on h?m. The premises destroyed were owned by Mr. B. Cameron and Mr. J. Buohanan. The insurances p-e J2600 in the New Zealand Office, and £200 in Norwich Union. PRKPARITO FOR SYDNKY STRIKERS. The Zeatandia shipped twelve extra hands here and took 500 tons of ooal, sufficient to obviate coaling at Sydney. No opposition is reported. The Alameda has ooaled at 'Frisoo for the round trip. \ MELBODRNE^SHOBT OF COAL. Messrs. Stone Brothers, shippers, have received a cable to-day from Melbourne, asking if they could supply 5000 tons of ooal daily for the gas works. They replied stating they oannot fulfil the order unless ships are provided. They would require to despatch two vessels every day in order to keep up the supply. FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE. A shop and dwelling belonging to Mrs. Dunn, Cambridge, was burned down on Friday. Insurances : £100 iu' South British. The furniture was destroyed, on which there was no insurance, EDUCATION OF CATHOLIC CHILDREN The deoree of the Roman Catholic Plenary Council, held in Sydney, forbidding the reoeption of the Sacrament by parents who send their ohildren to seoular schools, has been promulgated in the Boman Catholic diocese of Auokland. HORSED FOR INDIA l ' The steamer Bucephalus sails on August 25 for Calcutta, with 300 horses. FIRE IP HAWKE'S BAY. Napier, August 20. An hotel at Eaharaite was burnt down on Saturday morning. Nothing was saved, and the inmates barely escaped with their lives. Insurances : £200 in Imperial, £250 in Boyal, £200 in Equitable of Dunedin. HIGHWAY BOBBERY IN WELLINGTON Wellington, August 20. Thomas MoEwen was violently assaulted and robbod by three men in an alley way off Taranaki-street yesterday. He was arrested recently for drunkenness, and £67 was found on him- The thieves are supposed to have shepherded him since, in hopes of getting the money, but were disappointed. All were arrested last night. A MIFSIKGr BARQUE. The barque Trevelyan, from London, is now 150 days out, and some uneasiness is felt, as she had a large quantity of spirits on board. 3he is known, however, to be a slow sailer. A STABBING CABK. Chmßtohtjrch, August 20. "Win. McLean, labourer, and Joseph Delahurst, who had been drinking together at Papanui last night, had a quarrel as to who was best man, when the latter stabbed McLean in the abdomen with a lock saw. The wound is not considered daugeroue. Delahurst has bien arrested. THE SUFFOCATED BAKER. Collins, a victim of tho Biohmond suffocation case, is recovering. DFAD BODY OF MAN FOUND. Yesterday evening the body of a man, unknown, was found on the Port hills, near Goveinoi's Bay road. He is about 85 years of age, 5 ft. Oin. in height, robust, fair hair and beard. Nothing was found on him to identify him. He was dressed in a dark grey tweed, and the body was naked from the wrist to the knees. From the appearance of tbe ground tbe man had evidently camped under tbe flax bushes close by. DFATH OF HON. MF. MEKZIKB. Invercakgill; August 20. The Hon. J. A. Menzies, M.L.C, and first Superintendent of Southland, died on Saturday at Wyndham, aged 67 years.. The oause of death, is pneumonia, complicated with jaundice. This district has now no representative in the Legislative Council.