CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1558, 14 May 1887, Page 2

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

John Anderson, a shepherd at Lake Wanaka, was ki'.led by falling over a precipice 150 feet high. The steamer Lalla Rookh enoonntored aßtorm at the Bap of Islands, and, springing a leak, she was run ashore at Great Barrier Island. All the hands escaped. The steamer broke up almost lmmedlatelly, A boy named Alexander Renton, of Obkla, Otago, was going to Bohool, walkIng alongside a dray when ho sl'pped and the wheel passed over him killing him instantly. The building ereotcd for a smallpox hospital near Uhintohuroh, was tatally destroyed by fhe on Thursday night. Ihe oare'aker, Slattery, and his family had a narrow escnpo. Jliohard Phelan, the well-known Dunedin swimmer, has been arrested on a sharge of stabbing a man namod Hook latin" a drankea spree; Hook Is In the hospital. E. S Parker, the Superintendent of ,he Bank of Australasia, who loßt his life n the Melbourne Railway accident, was formerly manager of the Wellington aranoh of the Bank.

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