LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1346, 23 August 1883, Page 3

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). AUCKLAND. The body of Sam Wyllie. who was drowned at Kaihu Creek, Northern Wairoa, was found on Monday, The barque Gazelle, which went ashore off Kauri Point during the late North-east gale has been successfully floated and towed down Freeman’s Bav. DUNEDIN. The Knox Church authorities are advised of Ihe shipment of ne of the finest organs ever sent to this Colonv. Pembroke, correspondent to the “Times” reports a buggy accident and three occupants being killed or seriously injured, but no reliable particulars are to hand. NEW PLYMOUTH. An empty house belonging to Mr Weir, was destroyed by fire on Monday night. WANGANUI. At the Police Court this morning, a woman named Josephine Green was brought up on two separate charges of stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, value £5, and wilfully murdering her infant child, Arthur Stanfield, otherwise Arthur Green, on the 11th January last, at Hawera The merits of the rases were not gone into, and the police asked fnr a remand to Hawera, when they will come on for hearing there. For the latter charge, the woman is said tn be arrested in consesequence of the sudden and mysterious disappearance of her child CHRISTCHURCH. After four days trial in the Supreme Court, Stranaghan, grocer, gained a verdict of £5OO against an insurance company The evidence as to the quantity of btock destroyed "as extremely contradictory Judge Johnston expressed satisfaction that the decision in such a case of conflicting testimony was not left to the judge alone. Heller, formerly connected with the old English Favre, and recently teacher at the Catholic School here, has left suddenly for Sydney It is found that he has appropriated the money of the Hibernian Society, and forged the Rev. Father Gruoty’s signature to cheques. Heller has been arrested in Sydney, and Sergeant Mason leaves to take charge of him. The N Z Shipping Company has received advice of the arrival of the lonic at Madera, on the 19th, the refrigerator working well, and the meat in good condition. The Doric, bound to Auckland, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the 20th inst.