WELLINGTON.
May 4. Informations have been laid aqamst Alexander Cunningham and Edward M Intosh charging them with sly grogselling on the Miramar race course on Thursday. Tho defendant?, who were keepers of the refreshment booths, ate alleged te have sold whisky and beer. li. Placke, a young Dutch swimmer, whose exploits in Auckland are well known, is anxious to get up a matoh to swim Cook Strait. The correspondent of the Post, wiring from New Plymouth, states that Mr Charlcß Fair, the second practical member of the Sydney syndic Uo interested in petroleum hiring at Moturoj, arrived yesterday. Considerable reticeoco is observed as to the boring operations, but it in known that the bore is now down to 240 feet, and that a fl>w of between three and four barrels per day has been obtained. Several properties in the vicinity have changed hands at good prices during the past few days, the purohaanra being in oich case members of the syndicate. The Government have received a message stating that tha loin is considered a splendid success in London and has raised the credit of all colonies The result is achieved in face of persistent dec y ing by the opponents of the colony. None of the New Zailand bank} have got any of the ban. The child Patrick died during the night, and the paron's are still in a precarious condition. The door was broken open by a neighbor named Moroney with an axe, nnd, groping on the floor of tho room, which was full of smoke, he found the rmn, then the woman, and Ustly tho child. All were badly burned all over their bodies. The bed had appirontly caught fa" to, but the Patricks aie in too seih.us a condition to givo nny account of how the accident happened. A case of what looks liko ingenious fraud his been unrarbhed hpre. A pickage supposed to contain LGOO worth of medical trusses arrived from America, but the consignee could not be foupd. Having heard of a somewhat simiilar occurrence in Australia, the packigo was opened in tho presence of various officials and found to be empty. The supposed senders drew upon nn imaginary firm in Wellington and got the draft discounted in Philadelphia and nude off with tho c^sh, in which ciso someone hts been left lamenting.
May 5. Mra Patrick, ts well as her two-yoir-old son, victims of Friday night's fire, have succumbed to sovere burns. Ttio mother died this morning at four o'clock. At the time of the 6 re, whon Mra Patrick was removed to the air by Messrs Maloney and James, her burnt clothes were pulled off, and with it the akin on a great portion of the body, arms ar,d legs. Her hair a'so, upon being touched, fell from the scalp. Patrick's condition is so serious th-ib his depositions have been t-iken at tho hospital. He rays his roil name is Bull, but he had adopted that of his stepfather, Win. Patrick, of Dublin, He had been out of work eight or nine weeks ar >d yesterday ho returned homo at G. 30 p.m., and soon after undressed, and lay down with his child in order to get him to sleep, leaving Mrs Patrick up and dressed. There was a lighted candle on the chair close to the bed, when he fell asleep. When he woke up tho bed clothes And wall paper were on fire, and hii wife and child were on fire on the bed. He got up and ran about the room, but rouaembered no more till he was being lifted fr jm the floor. He htd no money in the house. He was not drunk, neither was his wife. She took a glass of beer or porter daily on medical advice. A young tran named William Jamea, driver of a two-horse waggon from Bnoth's timber yards to Makara, was killed last Dight by falling off the vehicle. The cable steamer Terranor* resamed work in laying rtie new otble to-day, and it is expected to be completed so mo time to-night. The repairing ot tho throeoore cable will ba then undertaken*
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8175, 6 May 1895, Page 3
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690WELLINGTON. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8175, 6 May 1895, Page 3
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