TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

West Coast Times, Issue 10429, 7 December 1896, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

"•" • I»TBRPpO¥I|CI AJj [Fb,o?j Qjjr P^n Cobbespq^dent.] Reefton, Dec. 6. Saturday midday q^ot^ipps ■=- Big Eiver, 24/ to 25/; Buller Dredge, 7/ to 7/6; Cocksparrow dredge, 1/6 to 1/9- Cnniberland, i/6 to aft Dillon Extended, 2/ to 2/3; Exchange, 1/ to 1/3; Goldea Lead, 2/ to 2/3 ; Herooles. 2/ to 2/3; Humphreys Gully, (paid up), 18/ to 20/; Inglewood, 9dto l/;Lyell Creek, 2/3 to 2/6; Lord Edward, 2/ to 2/3; Keep-it-Dark, 3'67t0 31/ ; No 2. South Dark, 2/ to 2/3; Success, 6d to 9d; Alpine, 15/ to 16/; Unjtedtyaty, 9d to 1/; Welcome, (paid 'up), 4/ to 4/6. Owing to Jilted business thfi aiipve quotations are nominal. Buller, dredge, 21ozs 4dwts gold for 12j) hours. [Per United Pbess Association.] buNEDiir, Dec. 5. The return fr.om the Achille? fields Company for the lasi month was 43Qozs of gold. ' Auckland, Dec. 5. By a fire at Grafton road four houses were burned. T,he (tenants i^ere Mrs BroadfootjJMCr JPiggait, $Ltb Denniston and Mrs Keary. Only Piggett's was insured, £76 in^he JTew Zealand lßs,ur^Qe. The property belpngsio the Bank of •Ne,w South Wales .arid .was insured .for £7QO in the National. The fire is jmppofjed to.have originated in a spark on a roof from a foul chimney. J A skeleton, supposed to be that of the missing deaf and dumb man named Fleming, was found between Mangapua and Bay of Island. He wasvlost in^he^bush in 1894. The Eight Hours Demonstration sports in the Domain were attended by -600 people. It is stated the .Goviernjar #nd party will leave Wellington on the ,2qth,}pst,in the new Government steamer for Auckland and take a cruise around ( the Nprth Island. ' !'! ' Alexander .Ms'Olmtockj.FJlJfS.j-teacher at Archiel, hasten japppinied Inspector of Schools at Cook Islands. Thirty-three tons of pearl shells arrived from Tahiti, the most extensive and valuable, c^signmen-fc ,fpr years.past. At the inquest on Charles Fisher, who was poisoned o.n Friday, .evidence sji^wed that in company with twp .others,' prohibited persons,' he went to the hoijfe qf a bpat builder named Sfceel, and breaking into Steel's house obtained the key of his boatsljeds^yjnghe.wanfed a drjftk and would have one. His compauio i nsis|;ate,he wept into the shed and presently called out "I'm poisoned"; he died shortly afterwards. Two bottles containing carbolic acid for disinfecting pvrpqses had -been left in the shed the day before by a Maori who .was carrying them to- his .employer's private residence. Fisher, was un,der the influence of drink at the time. One of his companions turned, pp at th.9 inquest sq drunk that the coroner ref used to hear him. Tho jury ret^r^d a^eßftrt of " death from poisoning ' by^ misadventure " adding a rider pointing out the danger of people putting" carbolic acid into bottles.and aot labelling them ' poison. >"