BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4059, 29 February 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

■ : '‘Christchurch, February .2B. , It .is suppo-ed. that Freeborne committed suicide becauae of inability to pay, over, certain moneys he had collected for a butcher named Garforth.' The latter met Freeborne this mornmg,. and asked him to settle up. They walked together • to the Crit xion Hotel, where Freeboxne lodged. _ Hp then ostensibly went to his bedroom for his books.- On returning he passed through the commercial room to the back yard, saying ter4 person who• accosted him, “I’ll -be back in a second.” A few minutes afterwards a man going to the watercloaet found Freeborne On the ground quite dead, with a shot .wound in the right temple. He was unmarried.

.The Christchurch District Drainage, Board: decided to-day to borrow LIOO.OOO, being part of the L 250,000 intended to be spent in' drainage work in Christchurch, and suburbs, * The money is to be borrowed for fifty years, ! at 6 per cent.

/ ; , Invercargill, February 28. A® bdd to-day into the cause °* the fire in Cochran and Wentworth’s store ,oa VVedneaday last, when the jury returned a verdict that the premises were wilfully set on mre-oy some person or persons unknown.

_ , , Wellington, February 28 ■ Ihe, tenders for the Government bankin'* account muist be sent in before the 20th April next. Any agreement entered into to be teinuoable by either party on six- months 7 notice being given to the other. There is a voluminous list of conditions attached. Amt ngst them ftto these The new contract does not commence until the expiration of six months. a Government has to deposit shall be deposited with the Bank by which its business is conducted, provided the Government shall be at liberty, whenever its credit balance at -London shall exceed a million, to deposit the excess in some other Bank. The Government 'shall also be at liberty to invest aay Pf its, credit in interest-bearing securities, and if at any tune the Government considers the badk: Unsafe,' to 'be- at liberty ,tp remove wim its bankers all money lying to its credit in their, hands. Interests on advances to be Charged on the debit balance of the whole account.