TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1505, 12 March 1887, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Corps Disban led.

Auckland, March 12

it haa been agreed to disband the College Rifle Company on account of the numerous resignations.

Refractory Sailors.

At the Police Court Ohaa. Davidson, A)ex. McPheraon and Geo. Mooro, were charged at Ihs inatanco of Captain Ross, of the Brfgantine Myrtle, with impeding tho progress of tho voyag} of that vessel at i yttoltcn on (he 2nd ms 1 . The men bad refused to finish loading tho vessel after 6 p.m. Dr iLaiahley, In defanoe submitted that it was no combination with danger to the sh'p and onrgo as oharged, vlso that no Gaedtte had been handed i;> and no proof that the Myrtle was a British sh ! p. The Bench dismissed the action on tho ground of the technical point raised and allowed three guineas OCBtS. I Gored • by a Bull- i Kew Plymouth, March 12. A lad named Burkett was tossed and gored by a bull ihU morning. He ib very badly hurt and has been brought into the hospital. Sudden Death. Wellington, March 12. Mrs Hughes, aged 60, dropped dead m Manners street this morning. Heart disease was the cause. Ihp Clutha Railway. Donkdi.v, March 1?, The next cection, of the O.'utha railway ia to bo a tart c. I next month. Imposing on Gharlty. . At the Civ ha Ojunty Coun.il Captain Msckerzio mentioned that a recipient of Benevolent Society's funds, who had died the other day, hnd £200 to Im crodit bebides owning a section of land, and that his family was well off. A G,ood Yields The lavinoible Company, at the h}a»d of jh^Lalre crushed ICO ounoea of retnrtoo' gold from 2go tons Btone The Burns Statue. The Gowemo , v si^ttd .' y M es Bur ia, ■ 1 1 unveil the Dais statue three weeks beuoe.