TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1020, 13 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , News from Fiji • Auckland, To-day. The Penguin has arrived from Fiji A letter from the health officer at Levoka to the health officer at Auckland reports no sickness at either Suva ec Levuka, nor had any cases arisen from the quarantined ' emigrant ship, Poonab. He complalmi of the action of the New Zealand and Australian Governments in declaring Fiji as a port infected. Found Drowned. . The body of the unfortunate young man Allan, who is supposed to have committed suicide by drowning himself on Sunday I ,' 29th ult., was found floating id the' harbor early yesterday morning cloaa! to :tho spot from where he was suspected to have thrown himself into the water. .Tn the pockets of the deadr miu’a clothing were found several letters addressed to him from/ various ‘ ; wntexp, add from different parts of New land and elsewhere; His Post' Office Savings Bank book, also found, upon him showed that he had'the sum Of ‘Lift Ips'w his credit in the Bank, and "that deposit made was just a week prioif'to mff' death. In addition he had a chain on and several rings bn his fingert,. besides about L2 or L 3 in money. whole of the man’s face was Oaten Allan served an apprenticeship as coattimaker ini Dunedin. •' I nr. ; v "j" - , Hre. .. TUames, 'To-rday. A fire occurred at 1.30 this morning in ' Pollen Street,, in the premises of Hunter, which were destroyed. 'The insurances were L 166 on the. building, and L2OO on the stock and effects. Two adjoining shops, uninsured, were also 1 destroyed,, the damage being .estimated :> at l abbttfr J Lsoa' , i iu dihf uv ■>

In Difficulties.,,. *■ ' DnNEPisv_T(Haa?. Messrs Carter and;Co. have called • meeting of their creditor*’ Assets, LLI,OOO ; liabilities, L 9,000., ■ .An,<»ffePiby a local firm of L 6,600 fer , '-estate,.W*K£. refused.. The, debtots. assign the estate. - . \ r'inu-. jtu'a Drowned. -a &iaa The schooner Mary Ogiivie, fromOwymouth, reports, that during gala on the Slat William Warner, * seaman, was washed overboard. Nothing >could be done to save.hum. Beccaaad at Wanganui. : > Tho Dnnedln Harhor. , : ; > A new series of soundings' were taken on the bar on Saturday. The leasi depth shown was 19ft 6ih, and that dnly in fdUr places, extending over a small are* Over a large area onboth aide J trie leading light depths varied from 18ft 6in to'SOft. The dredge now lifts an average of a thousand tons daily. Bishop Nevill on Religions Instate* ' ■ tion. ' v In opening the new schoolroom at Roslyn, Bishop Nevillj speaking 6b religious instruction, specially lamented the indifference of'the laity in this matter, and showed that their halting opinions on this important subject bore their own bad fruit, as thereby the hands of the clergy were weakened in the. efibrta they made to obtain State' support for teaching, religion. ' ; 1