LATEST TELEGRAMS

Kumara Times, Issue 1443, 13 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, May 12. James Hadley, carpenter, fell from a ladder, the drop being five feet, while working at an extension of the Edinburgh Castle. He stated it gave way. He died in a few hours. He leaves a wife and five children. Typhoid is on the increase in the city and suburbs. Scarlatina and fever still prevail. Sir George Grey will address the electors on Monday night at the Theatre Royal. A public meeting was held in the Pitt street Wesleyan Church re funds for tlie families of the Revs. Messrs Richardson and Armitage. <£loo was subscribed at the meeting, and a committee has been appointed to collect subscriptions. The Rev. Thomas Buddie (president), Revs. Messrs Dewsberry aiid Oliver, expressed sympathy with the bereaved families. For an insult on a little girl,, Hill was fined £6, or three months. Nelson, May 12. J. C. Richmond ia a candidate for Adams’s vacant seat. OONEbIN, May 12. The Tararua inquiry was continued to-day. The evidence taken was mainly that of the seamen, and was not important. One seaman declared that if all the steamers in England were there after 12 o’clock on Friday they could not have saved a soul on board. The captains of the Ringarooma and Ahawata gave evidence as to the danger of Waipapa Point, and recommended a light in the neighborhood. At the Harbor Board to-day, the Harbormaster recommended fog whistles in connection with all New Zealand lighthouses, in order for the safe approach of harbors. New Plymouth, May 12. Intelligence has reached town of an attempt made on Tuesday evening to throw a ballast engine off the line between Elham and Ngaire. A large stone was put upon the line, and before the engine could be stopped it had run against it with such force as to cause the iron girders to bend almost double. No one was hurt.