TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1296, 3 July 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION.] il Pira. d Auckland, To-day. P A fire broke out in Dubar’a store, 8 1 Devonport, yesternight, and did damage v to the extent of Ll5O before it was extinguished. Football Accident. A boy named Cunningham had his leg broken at football yesterday, J Burnt Out. J Manaia, To-day. A four-roomed house, the property of n R. H. Campbell, carrier, was burned this si morning. The insurances on the building b were Ll4O in the South British, and fur- k niture LIOO in the Union. The fire is u believed to have been purely accidental. £ Fatal Accident. e Wellington, To-day, t! While a lad named Richard Brooker, I aged 17, was engaged bush falling at d Porirua on Monday, a tree fell on him, 1) crushing his leg, which necessitated am- p Sutation. Brooker was removed to the fi ospital, but died last night. A'Divorce Case. In the Divorce Court the'case of Craig v Craig was heard. Ihe petition of the husband, who is a gardener at the Hutt, was on the ground of his wife's unfaithfulness. A decree nisi was refused. A New Hal]. Blenheim, To-day. The foundation stone of the Oddfellows’ Hall, the first in Marlborough, was laid yesterday, and a grand dinner was given afterwards, at which there was the largest gathering of the kind ever held in the