TO DAY'S TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2310, 20 December 1889, Page 2

TO DAY'S TELEGRAMS

(PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.; Fatal Accident. -.- Wellington, December 20 Mm Hoopar, whowss seriously ba'rnr/f ! at Upper Ha .t by her olothea catohlng fire! wh'le papv.rfng a room, died; yesterday; Sho had been burnt severely- about the legs and ba'tocka, eventually dying doia ! txhaaatioac '■ '■> "■'- The Premier. The Premier telegraphed from" Hobarfc that he la improving In h alth. '.- ■ ' v n?v Arrived y.^-.v •Jhristchuroh, December 20. ■:■-"* i Arrived— barque Hurudul, Sinclair, from London, whlob port Bhe left on Sept, lat. Shortly after a'ear'ng the Channel ( It waa discovered that the malatopinast i had started, co no press of canva» could be oarrled. Oa Decambor 13th a oeunaa SloW^lltJU <rt»ij u tubbed — Iti— Vfco — unit uf tb^~ right leg by the boatswain, WyßealK The wound is not serious. -•-. H.M.S. Lizard a Tutaett, Dcoember 10. The gunboat Lizvd called m this morn-' lug, and steamed aboqt tha h»rbor. - '?-s. -•■} s£B Sailed. Sailed -PUko. ship, Sutherland, for London, with 4000 bales of wool, 4123 aacbs wheat, 124 casks tallow md pelts« and 12 kega of batter, x " . " Suicide. DuOTDiir, December 20 . George Henry Ashorof t v skationmaitei. at DaDedin, shot, hlnualf tnls morhlng: with a pistol. Deceased, who was one of the moot popular msß m the seryloe, leaves a wife and three children. It la believed' bat loaati la mining apeouUtlons oiaaed the aot, : J Assault on a Oblnamas* ■:- At the Oity Court to-day John Wilson Vesey was ientencad to two months im" prleonment without the option of a fine, foe a most unprovoked aeaault on aOhtneUe fish hawker, whom he beat with a •Uflk and struck while on the gtoand. He pleaded drink, but the arresting constable deolores he was perfectly ibber f aitd pretended io be aeleep. • !;j