TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1399, 8 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] A Stranger. New Plymouth, To-day. A. bird which proved to be an English swift was shot at White Cliffs. _ There were three others with it. No birds of the species have been imported here, and information is solicited as to whether they have been seen elsewhere. Accident* Wellington, To-day. Mr IL Welsh, a farmer of Opake, met with a seriousaccident at Featheratone on Saturday night. As the train was leaving he attempted to pass from one carriage 1 platform to another, when he fell and the train passed over him. She has since died. Inciting to Murder. Henry Lewis, alias Dayman, the hangwas to-day charged with unlawfully proposing to commit murder. The charge ■ is brought on the information of a Maori named Ponaka Hapuaeu, who is at pre- , HBtin gaol, on remand, charged in conv junction with Lewis with butglary. The ■ ‘1 Maori will accuse Lewis of suggesting • • {that they should rob the premises of a Watchmaker in Cuba street, aMr Campbell, t Chinaman. The Maori states that they were toviait the watchmaker’* shop . ' during tha day on some trifling pretext, 'i ' |hb real ohjeot being to become acquainted witb the premises, Lewis is stated to f'“V J that the Maori should, in ‘ttefieal.ol Resistance, qiurder theshop- • Lewis Was remanded until Fn-PPst-MMlonal* >< Kekfton, To-day, lb A. 8. Menteath, representative for I addressed a crowded meeting ■ltott cn Saturday evening. He ewrty two hours, the speech on the i«h)g hostile'to the Government, rived a vote. of thanks and conDrowned* * V . _ Dunedin, To-day. v A eblld named ' ackie was drowned at f l , v-Jmgw yesterday by falling into a creek. A depotstion from the Chamber of • I Commerce waited on the Premier this ./ v; morning,- referring to the unsatisfactory „ , t Wotjjrihgof the customs tariff. Mr Stout ■ tepned that nutters would he looked into bnf-af present an effort beipg made to equalise duties.