TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1141, 7 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN. This day. A prospectus is out for a new Insurance Company, having its head-quarters here, and to be called the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand. It will eventually include life business aud fire business, which will be confined to the Colony. It will also include the issue of a bonus, as well as the ordinary policies bonus, being divided after 10 per cent, has been paid to the shareholders. NAPIER. Steps are being taken to form a Meat Preserving Company, with a capital of £4,500. It is proposed to take over the existing works, and add refrigerating machinery. One vessel fitted with refrigerating machinery will come to Hawke’s Bay this wool season. A strange story comes from Kaikoura. Mrs Stacey, a relative of Mr Harry Hickey, left Waipawa by rail on Saturday afternoon for her home, which is some four miles from Kaikoura; on getting out ofthe train at Kaikoura she proceeded to walk to her residence, and was not heard of till she was found, on Sunday morning, on one of the hills in the neighborhood, quite unconscious, he clothing partly torn off, and her head and the upper part of her body much bruised. She cannot account in any way for the strange condition in which she v.'us found. Mrs. Stacey ia an elderly lady. A caue of attempted suicide from unre-

quited love took place at Vvaipukurau on >aturd: , .y evening last, A man named Hamliioml, u.iiph»yc«-i as grrdcuer at Mount J.'u.luiJ, v.;,s round d.viigurGUsly ill; upuu being questioned us to the cause of his illness, he stated that he ha.d taken a dose of ;.r»uaic with the view to “end his days.” He was removed to the Count}' Hospital and prompt remedies were applied, but he is still in a very precarious condition. Two packages labelled poison, one containing strychnine, and the other arsenic, were found in his box ; also a will, in which he directed that all his goods should be sold, and the proceeds handed over to his fickle lady love. AUCKLAND.

This Day. The Rotomahana grounded down the harbor on a mud bank, owing to a dense fog, but got off with the rising tide. The steamer Tongariro went down with Messrs T. Henderson, Sibbin, and R. E. Isaacs, who welcomed the Sydney footballers, and took them to their hotel. It has been finally settled to retain Jewett, of Dunedin, in the Auckland football team, notwithstanding the objection made by the Press. The Sydney football team are very light averaging under 12st., though not the best that could have been picked, owing to some of the best men not being able to spare the time necessary for the tour. It is nevertheless a good allround combination, and the members themselves are satisfied that it will take some hard play to enable their opponents to score a victory. There are only six men in the team who took part in the match against Queensland. Wm. Black, bookkeeper in Mitchelson and Co.’s died suddenly. A Tallow and Manure Company has been formed, with a capital of £5OOO. The Rotomahana brought £lO,OOO specie for the Bank of Australasia. CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. It will be remembered that some months ago a daring and inexplicable robbery of a safe and its contents occurred at the Black Horse Hotel, in which the notorious Longmore was supposed to have had a hand. The The safe could never be found, despite all search, but one was found yesterday in a ditch on the Cashmere estate, which is supposed to be the missing article. The ditch was full of water all the winter, but is now dry. The contents were all gone of course.