TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1348, 10 December 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

fr»a FRBM A**ooimow.l ESffiPa Death' Auckland, To-day. Information has been received of the death of a settler at Henderson's Bay,, named John Malcolm,, under singular e»* cumstat, cea He was taking a hide from a decomposed carcase of a ball <ok, when, he took ill and died. It ia believed to be from bleed poisoning Tomahawked A private letter abates that A. Campbell, late of ’anranga, was tomahawked fay natives at N**w Ireland on September 24.

The Knapehn. Arrived— Rnapehu. from South. The King Country. . tv Ellington, To-day. MU" The Hon the Native Minister bss ceived information from tevaral chiefs In the Kmg Country that they are willing to allow prospecting in that part of tbe country, and instructions have been seal to Mr Wilkinaou, Government A sent at Alexandra, to select prospectors, who will at once, u> company wuh the native*, prroeed to Rangitoto, where it is bnlieied gold will be recovered. , Defence Works. • Government are about to proceed with the earthwork* in conn ction witn de cnee work <>n Rip* Island, i.ytteitmi hat hr, in readiness f >r the new guns, wh cisre to arrive fram Engl md. Torpedo Expert. . Mr W*rd, su <i, art m the- os> of torpedoes, who wa* selecte lat Homefor the New Zealand Government by the AgtntGeneral, has arrived in the colony, and has reported himself to the Defence Minister. Mr Ward, who is a pensioner of the Imperial Army, is said to be a specialist in the use of Whitehead and Fish torpedoes, and as it ia the intention of Government to obtain a number of such torpe does, Mr Ward’s duties will be particularly devoted to those

Fire. Christchurch To-day. At one a.m. to day a four-roomed sot- ' tage at Spray don, owned and occupied by Everard Chappell, was was insured for Lioo in -rtw HamburgMadgdou'g offi e, and the furniture for LSO in the Standard office. Cause of fire unknown. 'ikh £ hipping. i Arrive —Htwia, fiom north ; Omapere and Waihora, from south. Caution to Fishmongers' Two fishmongers were, fined L2 each at the R iVI Court to-day for selling rock oyste a on December {7, during the close season. • )ne had a private bad in EVans’ Bay, Wellington, where he sto-ed some tons of oyate-s taken during the open season. The other pleaded he was only Sailing the balance of a consignment abipp d fr >m A nets'and on November 28. Magistrate Baetham said that any subsequent offence would be sevesnly dsalt with. - Timaru Publicans, v Tixaku, To-day. At the quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee to-day two transfers were granted*—The Ship, J Hislop, to Char es Green, snd the the Orosvenor, J. D. Kelt, to W. F. Brown. la the esse of the Royal, the licensee of which has.baen twice convicted, the police report was unfavorable, and the Bench cautioned the licensee that farther misconduct would entail the cancellation of license.