TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1057, 23 January 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PBB PKKSB ABBOOIAHON.] An Accident. Wallingioh, To-day.

A young man named Kimperman, a recent arrival by the lady Jocelyn, last night while in a state of intoxication fell through a bedroom window in the* third atorey of the Star Hotel, on to the footpath below, a distance of fully 40 feet. He broke bis left thigh, injured his left ankle, and received some severe cuts on the head. His injuries are not likely to prove fatal.

Alleged ForgeryA man named Sullivan, formerly a boardinghouse-keeper in Wellington, has been arrested at Foxton on a charge of forging ui order on a man named Conner.

« The Weather. The crops in the Wairarapa district are suffering from the severe weather.

Drowned. Woodvillk, To-day.

A boy named Mecham, aged ten years, and the son of a settler here, was drowned in the stream yesterday while bathing, ' he having gone out cf his depth.

A Seed Case. Hawbka, To-day.

Judgment in the great seed case Buchanan v Laird was delivered to-day. This was a rehearing, and the Magistrate adhered to his former judgment in favor of the plaintiff, who recovers LIOO from the defendant for having supplied him with wrongly described seed. Notice of appeal was given.

Tire. m , , Napieb, To-day. A house at Porangahau, occupied as a dwelling and tailor’s shop, was totally destroyed by fire last night. Nothing was saved. The bouse was insured in the Union for L2OO, and the stock and furniture for L3OO in the South British.

, Quito Correct. It has transpiied that the monies voted by the Borough Council for the hospital were not for maintenance but for the baildiog fond. Thus the Colonial Undersecretary is strictly accurate in his letter In stating that the Council had ceased to support tiie hospital.

• A Cyclist. • ■ IVfr Adam, on a bicycle from Wellington, left morning for the Hot Lakes. Copper at Nelson. Nstsoir, To-day. The first general meeting of the Champion Copper Company was held last night. The prospeotos provided for 60,000 shares and 60,462 were taken up by 264 persons. It was decided to hold the remaining ■hares in trust for the Company. At the mooting two pieces of smelted copper from the mine were exhibited. ISjlbs of native Set was taken from the lode and was ted in the local foundry, and after 1 being smelted twice the copper from the mould weighed 12|lbs. It is proposed to ■and the specimen -to the Christchurch Exhibition.

A Madman. Geevmodth, To-day.

John White, for malicious destruction of property in the Catholic Chapel at No Town, was tried in the District Court. The jury returned a verdict of insanity. His manners in the Court seemed to 'justify the verdict. White has been on the Coast for 18 years, and during all that - time he was always liable to fits of insanity.

Direct Steamer. , Donbdxn, To-day. Arrived—Steamship Bombay, all well, from London.

H.M.S. Espiegla. The Espials had drill at quarters today for the benefit of the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Navals, who attended in foil' strength. She leaves for Lyttelton to-morrow.

The Cat. Newton received twenty-five lashes in .gaol, and suffered severely.

Presbyterian Synod. The Sjnod last night carried by a large majority an overture to the/ Dunedin Presbytery, to memorialise Parliament to - emend the Education Act, and to allow daily Bible reading during school hours. Mr Lothian’s amendment, appointing a committee to co-operate with any other branches of tho Deformed Church, in order to ascertain whether it is possible for the churches by united action *o organise a staff of trained and efficient paid Bible instructors, who shall devote themselves to giving Bible instruction periodically at stated hoars in public schools, found no seconder.