TELEGRAPHIC.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1014, 28 March 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(PER PRESS association) AUCKLAND, March 26:; Miss Juno’s Combination Dramatic Company opened at the Opera House with “ Leah, the Forsaken,” to a capital house. ” : The house of Mr Nathan Kay,. at Parnell, was burnt 4own at noon. The loss is estimated . at £2OO. The property was insured. ' _ The Hon. Mr Bryce has inspected the process of smelting the Onehunga ironsand. i WELLINGTON, March 24. ; Alexander Hastings Malcolm, a re--spectably dressed person, was,.charged on warrant with .having at Palmerston North,' on the ,10th March, supplied certain materials for, establishing an p , still, . Detective Chrystal

deposed thnt the warrant was executed this morning in Wellington* Defendant said he “ expected this, adding that Inspector James had gone to his place with a search warrant but had “ found nothing,” and went away satisfied. Defendant, who offered no objection, was remanded to appear at Wanganui on the 30th instant, bail being allowed in his own recognizance of £IOO, and two sureties of £SO each. The Agent-General telegraphs that the ship Westmeath has sailed from London for Auckland with 312 immigrants. The caibine\ match':between the local Navals and a team from H.M.S. Diamond resulted :.in .a -victory for; the former by 18J points. ' ' ' A charge of perjury will be heard by the Resident-Magistrate.^;on Tuesday. The defendant in the case is Lucy Bolger, barmaid at the Prince of Wales "Hotel, 1 ' and ;the offence is alleged to have .been,., com mi 1.t.ei),.. d utipg. the .hearing of ah information against the licensee for employing females in his bar after 11 p.m.- .. A number .of.---witnesses, have been subpoenaed' for ' the " prosecution, and two'lawyers have been engaged for the defence. TIMARU, March 26. The heavy gale which has prevailed here ioo.several days past is.no.w abating. A sehman on board the ship Ugglan had both his •legs : broken last evening by a chock giving way and the hawser striking him. ; ; .CHRISTCHIIRCH, March 26. Thomas Vincent, of West Melton; was driving home from Kaiapoi, when the horse shied and dragged the cart over an 8-feet embankment into the .Eyre River bed. Vincent was .badly and lay till yesterday morning, when he was fohrfd and conveyed home. He died an hour afterwards; ' ' , A,six-roomed house at Phillipstown, near Christchurch, was. burnt down yesterday morning... ;^( T i he s ;ca«se of the fire is unknown/ The house was insured for £3OO in the Colonial office. Mrs Pinching, wife of'the Kaiapoi chemist who is missing, died yesterday morning. ’ : ! A, ; married yyoman ..named ; Lackoy, residing at South brook, 17*‘miles‘"from, Christchurch, is supposed to have committed suicide on Thursday night. She was last seen alive at f 6 "pim., and late - yesterday morning the neighbours broke open the door, and found her lying dead under the bed. A piece of cord was tied tightly round her neck. She had been slightly weak-minded for some time. Her husband is away.