TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1069, 9 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PBEFRESS ASSOCIATION.] The Land Leaguer. Auckland, To day. Two hundred and twenty-five pounds was taken at Mr Redmond’s meeting yesternight.

Resigned. Mr Worthington, a teacher-undue Ahe Board of Education, has been compelled by that body to resign the .seat, in the Parnell Borough Council, to which he was recently elected- . - < i . Drowned. A man, whose supposed-name is Thoa_ Graham, was drowned at Dargaville while attempting to step on board the steamer Durham. ' Two Suicidal Attempts., Palmerston North;, To-day. Last night a man named Nelggp, a bushman, attempted te poison himself with half ah ounce of laudanum. * This morning a man named Dingoldy,' a tailor, attempted to commit suicide by taking vermin killer. Ha than wrote a letter,-, stating what he had done, and gave self up to the police. In both oases medi- ' cal assistance was at hand immediately, and the lives were saved.

A New Rallway. Tauranoa, To-day, , At a meeting of the shareholders of theTauranga Hot Springs Railway Company -. 65,000 shares were taken up. Operations will be immediately oommenoedj and an instruction for plant has been cabled to England.

Drowned. Fkildino, To-day. A child named Palmer, aged 3 yean,! was drowned at Aorougi, (near Feuding, yesterday, by falling into a creek. At the inquest to-day a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned.

An Important Visitor. Wellington, To-day. Baron Alexander Hubnar, who recently,' was Austrian Ambassador to Paris, and has been making a tour- of Australia, will leave Melbourne for the Bluff tomorrow. Missing. Henry W. Williams, clerk In the head office of the Customs Department, has been missing a week. He left bis home on Tuesday last, and has not since been heard of. Fatal Accident. * ; : Dunedin, To-day. - James Galloway, a laborer, while fishing ’ at the mouth of the Shag river with a netj ' was drowned yesterday evening. ' ( ' Fire. :

A four-roomed wooden hoose in Duke street, occupied by Edward Olempso.n t was burned down this morning. The furniture and stock were insured for L2OO in the London and Lancashire office. Olempaon estimates hia loss at L 370. The' building was owned by John Colder, and was insured in the Hamburg-Magdeboig ’ office for Ll5O. Arrival from Home. Arrived—Helen Denny, from Glasgow. She is to be brought up to Dunedin to* morrow.