TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1882, 2 July 1888, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

+ [PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION } S.S. Alhambra. Auckland, July 2. The South British Insurance Company had £6500 of their risk on the steamer Al ham bra reinsured In eighteen offices. Body FoundThe body of a man, apparently 28 or 30 years of age, was found at noon yesterday on a rock near Point Resolution Battery Parcel. A new ball dog revolver was found on the edge of the rock and a bullet wound In the centre of the man's forehead The body ia not identified, bat It is evidently that of the man engaged In manual work. Five pounds and fifteen shillings of money was fonnd In the pockets and several other articles, but not a clae to the identity. The body evidently had only been a few hours dead when found. Burnt to Death. Dunedih, July 2. A child at Bluospur waß badly burned through its clothes catching fire. End of a Drinking Bout. At Skippers, John Martin, a miner, was burnt to death m bis tent. He and his mate (Edwards) procured a gallon of whisky, and drank till both beoame helpless. Edwards appears to have endeavored to rescue Lira, but was too drunk to remember what occurred. Larceny. 'JIMARtT, July 2. At the Police Court to-day G. Goode, a porter at the Grosvenor hotel, w»s charged w th the larceny of a Post Office order for £2, Itwas given m a letter to poat hy the w f j of the licensee on 14 h ult. for the 'Fi'isoo mail, and the envelope and order (there waa no letter written) were fooni m his room on Saturday. He explained that he was busy when given the letter and pat it In his pooke 1 , and forgot about it till he fouad it m his pocket last Thursday. The envelope being then very dirty he resolved to put it m a fresh one and pott it by next mail and say nothing about it for fear of dismissal. He was sentenoed to neven rays