Telegrams.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XVI, Issue 2899, 21 December 1898, Page 3

Telegrams.

Wellington, This Day. Jackson, the escaped convict has cot been recaptured. The Hon. John McKenzie has informed the Times that he has no intention of retiring from the Cabinet at the present time. A lunatic named John Thomas Smith escaped from the Porirua Asylum yesterday morning and has not been seen since. As an outcome of the Eoyal Oak Hotel fire enquiry, the coroner has forwarded to Commissioner Tunbridge recommendations to the "police officers, whose duty it is to guide the Licensing Committee in regard to fire appliances, of provision for electric fire bells id hotels on each flat, communicating in such a manner that a touch of the button on either floor would set them all ringing. He also suggests that two or three light wire-rope ladders should be provided on each floor in rooms without locks, with directions as to where to find them. Further, Mr Ashcroft has written to the City Council recommending the amendment of the building regulation, to provide for external balconies ; that all wooden partitions should be plastered, and that work near chimneys or heating apparatus should "be protected with asbestos cement over the brickwork. Christchuech, Dec. 20. At an inquest touching the death of a lad named George Bowron, killed at Sumner yesterday, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, no blame -being attached to the guard and driver of the train on which the accident occurred. Auckland, Dec. 20. William Brighting, aged 40, watchwaker, whose wife to-day got a maintenance and separation order against him, went to her house tonight and on her sending for the police, swallowed matches. He was arrested by Constable M'Grath, who gave him an emetic, and he is now believed to be out of danger. JR. Styche, the landlord of the Avondale Hotel, shot himself to-day. He was found in the cellar of the hotel, lying on the floor with a double-barrelled gun at his side, one barrel being discharged. The shot had entered the ear and come out at the forehead. It is- supposed that the cause was financial worry. He leaves a wife and three grown-up sons, and was only 45 years of age.