TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1440, 24 December 1886, Page 3

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Burgle: y Auckland, December 24 This morning the p' emloaa of Messrs Men ale and Dey. lower Queen street, were discovered to have been entered during the night by 'alse keys and £6 In gold and silver stolen There la an doe to the perpetrators of the robbery. An Appreciated Gu idBlenheim, December 24. Peake, gnard on the Picton-Blenheim Bailway was presented tc-day with a parse of £32 as a Christmas-box, In recognition of his efficiency and courtesy. The Hon Captain Baillie M.b.O. made the presentation at the railway platform The Cain CaseDuNßDiir, December 24. On TtTr Chapman’s application the trial of Hall has been fixed provisionally fcr January 24. It is stated a special jury will probably be applied for.

Another romantic elopement, the second within the last three months, has just occm re 1 in the neighbourhood of a village some twelve' milea from Warwick (says the Napier Telegraph). The young lady, who is well connected and about So years of age, has long been the ruling spirit of the Dessenting Sunday School in the parish, and the happy swain, who is ten years her junior, was a member of the class. The fair one left home B short time since for an inland watering place and was joined at the next railway station by the favored one, whose occupation has latterly been that of a cowman on a local farm. For months past a belief has been current that the regard of the parties for each other was more tender than usually obtains between teacher and pupil, and the young cowman had occasionally boasted among his fellows that he intended to cross the water with a lady companion possessed of a thousand poaodSf Nothing has been heard of them tlnoe.