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Kumara Times, Issue 774, 24 March 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Maich 21. •' A man named Alex. Ramsay fell flown dead in Greytown. Three children named Hill were charged : as neglected children to-day and committed to Burnham , Industrial School. Their father, a hil'liara marker, deserted them, and the mother is ill. They were in a state of great destitution. .. .

March 22

On Thursday' night or Friday morning a woman named Bridget Beard^ i living at Ohairo, left home in her niglit- ! dress, and barefooted walked nearly a mile and threw herself into 'a.'mill ! dam, where she was found yesterday, She was married and lived with her husband, an old resideut of the district [ Lately bothtook to hard drinking and on one or two occasions she has figured in the 1 City Folice' Com t dock oh charges of drunkenness. When sober and away from drink ideceased waa/% remarkably hard working and iugly cleanly ; woman, but she was addicted to bouts of intemperance, during which she was absolutely lost: Her husband had also been drinking heavily and is now in a state bordering on lunacy from its effects.

The Albatross, German warship, from Islands, brings intelligence of: a hurrican ou the sth inst. The British Consulate;; Catholic I Church, ..and Goddefor's store; blown down, and two out of every three native nouses. Loss £BOOO,. The schooner, Medpria escaped, but the Auckland schooner Energy "was inthe group and uews of her is anxiously looked for.

March 23. The Hinetrioa has gone in search of the Glenelg, steamer.

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[press agency.]

WRECK OF THE KETCH UNITY. Blenheim, March 24.

On Wednesday at B'p-m., the ketch Unity, 43 tons, Thomson master, coming -fromLytteltori with 63 tons.flour, for Wellington, was approaching Cape Campbell when a: squall sprung up, and blew a heavy gale from S. to W. The vessel first touched the Sandstone roi-k ; and about five minutes later she struck on the north reef. All hands, live in,number, got into the boat, having nothing with thetu. The vessel broke up in about twenty minutes. The men reached the lighthouse atter eight hours pulling, where Hankley, the keepei'i showed them great kindness and lent them clothes. They reached Blenheim on foot last night. The vessel was owned half by the master and half by Captain Thomas, of Wellington.

Invercargill, March 24,

A rape is reported, by an able-bodied man on a little child eleven years of ae;e, an orphan. Some persons hearing the shrieks of the child, caught the ruffian, and, after using him very roughly, brought him to town, a prisoner.