TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10815, 4 December 1902, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press, Association.) OBITUARY. \HOKITIKA, December 3. The Rpv. Father Malone, curate at St. Mary's Church, died this evening after a short illness. Deceased has only been a short time in the district, but was very papular, amongst all classes. He was only 34 years of age. FIRE .AT NAPIER. „ v NAPIER, December 3. A six*-roomed house, owned by. jMr.s A. O'Dowdjl and' occupied by G. Cpjlelo,,,^., trainer,' was destroyed by fire at yesterday' mornings. Collelo was awdys! $b th 6 3T eilflihg races at the time. He, Jpst all his effects, which were • uninsured.-, she building u waa insured for .£2OO. . . - A SmPWRECfe) MARINERS 1 RELIEF ' v SOCtEI'Y. • . *' DUNEDIN, December 3. ' . The ftlayor has taken the matter of lorming a- Shipwrecked Mariners' Relief Society, 'Lord Ranfurly having consented to become patron. A <meeting has been called to form the Society. SUDDEN DEATH. DUNEDIN, December 3. News was received* to-day qf,th6 sudden death' lit Pleasant Point, near Timaru", of R. A. Lawbon, a well-known architect. • * SENSATIONAL. ASSAULT CASE. ' ' AUCKLANP, December 3.' A sensational -• incident is - stated to havo happened a few • nights ago on a lonely road near ! the , Western Springs, on the outskirts of the city. A young asylum nurse .was accosted by .a matt, who sti;iick her with a stone, and then threw her to the ground. The wowan, however, resisted bijively, and succeeded in getting to her; feet , again. A further struggle eiisued as the nurse made her way along^ the .road, and on. approaching a cottage she' screamed violently. Her assaihuit then released .her, and, producing -what seemed to be a revolver, fired. The woman put up her hands, and was wounded in the thumb. > The man then made off.