TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1364, 7 October 1886, Page 2

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

round Drowsed. Gisboene, October 17. e’derly man, named Jno Ficlayaon who hss been missing for a week, was found drowned in the river this morning. Tne t eoeiied is well known and respected. He is known tobe possessed of considerable means. He has property here and down Sou‘h. It is supposed he committed suicide and he has been in a despondent state for soma t : ma past. He lived by himaiif in a house. £3 in notes were i found on the table covered by a billy. Sheep Conference. Wellington October 7, The Sheep Conference at Sydney is now considering regulations for dealing with foreign sheep and cattle, and expect to finish on Friday. Mr McKenzie was riot allowed to vote. first Offenders Probation; The case of Peat, who was acquitted on a charge of larceny as a bailee without a stain on his character, has drawn attention to the face that there is no provision in the First Offenders Probation Act for extending Its advantages to men wfco hare previously been honorably acquitted. Proposed Release. At the Cabinet meeting it was decided to recommend Government to sanction the release of P. K. Watty, undergoing sentence of five years for forgery, on January Ist, when he will have served about half time. Watty has shown exemplary conduct la gaol where he has rendered considerable assistance to the authorities. Scab. The flacks on the Clarence runs In the Kaikoura district taken over by the Government und-r the Scab Act are coming in clean. Five or six thousand sheep have recently been dipped. Suicide. Blenheim, October 7Daniel Wilson, a settler in the Upper Peloras Valley and member of the Road Board, shot himself in the fort-head today. Presents Siam, J. M. Hutcheson, J. P., was presented yesterday, his seventieth birthday, with an illammated address and a purse of 50 sovb, in recognition of his services. He is the oldest membrr and the senior elder of the Presbyterian church. fire. Dunedin, October 7. A five-roomed house in Rothesay owned by R. Bolton, was destroyed. Insurance £l5O in the South Bri l ish,