AUCKLAND,

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 31, 13 January 1885, Page 3

AUCKLAND,

This Day. Rffiinson's cricket team returned from their Southern tour yesterday, At a meeting of the Hospital committee yesterday, it transpired in quite an accidontal way that a patient had been killed by lightning, in his be l during the storm on Christmas mornino-. Apparently nothing would have been known of the maRer, if Captain Briton, the house steward had not deemed it necessary to forward to the committee a requisition for lightning rods. A sudden death occurred at the Scandinavianboarding house yesterday morning. A man named Juhus Dennie, a French-Canadian was heard groaning by the proprietor of the establishment, who found him evidently in great pain, he went for a doctor, and on returning found him dead. A glass with arsenic in it was found under the man's bed. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. John James, secretary to the Auckland College and Grammar school

trust, was found dead in a bath, at Mason Bros. establishment, Queen 8t. The appearance of the bodv was as if Mr J ames had taken a fit, Thomas Mason at once sent for Medical aid, and Drs. Philson and Dawson were speedily on the spot, but they found life extinct. An inquest on the body of Julius Dennie will be held this afternoon, whea it is expected that facts will be adduced which will throw some light on the conduct of heceased, prior to his death. Yesterday the citioens gave an ad- ' eress and a purse of sove.iigns to Mr George Fraser in recognition of his enrrgy and success in floating, and repairing the Triumph.