TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1855, 31 May 1888, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(PEK PBI.SS ASSOCIATION.) Not Human Bones. Auckland, May 30. Oonetablo MoKnight, has visited the soono of the fire at Mr De Oartet's premises at Pakarua Valley, and declares there are no human remains m the debrla, not are there any slgnv of any. The bonea found wer<) probably carried Into hay loft by a dng or cat. and were ordinary meat bones, and noa hnmun bono, at all. A curious discrepancy is that De Cartet stated that there was a skull fouad. Shop Hours Bill. Two hundred aud fifty petitions are out In favour of the Shops Hours Bill, and over 1000 signatures were reoeived In one day. Suicide m Gaol. Napiek. May 30. John Campbell, undergoing aix months' l imprisonment In default of fiudlng securities to keep the peace tiw-rda the Rev Father Aherne, was found de^d m hia cell this morning, hanging by <he neok from the window birs. Deceased had hanged himself with his bolt. At the time of hia committal his sanity was doubted. He haa beeu m gaol since February SO.h, and waa well aonduoted.