LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1373, 25 October 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). CHRISTCHURCH. About 100 of the unemployed are new at work for the Government at Addington. The Orangemen have decided to celebrate the sth November by a public procession. The inquest on the body of John Durham, who was found strangled in his room in Lyttelton on Sunday, resulted in a verdict of “ Suicide while temporarily insane.” Evidence showed him to have been in a low state of mind lately, owing to Neparktion from his wife.

The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a telegram from Mr Coster, advising that all the additional capital has been taken up in England, the capital subscribed being now £400,000. The Company have made further contracts witli Messrs Elder & Co, for the construction of two steamships to be delivered next year, these will each have a gross register of over 5000 tons. The Tongariro leaves London for Port Chalmers and Lyttelton, on the 27th inst.

WELLINGTON. At the Supremo Court in Banco this morning, the case of Parnell v the Crown was argued. This was an appeal from the decision of the magistrate at Gisborne, who had given judgment against Parnell a volunteer for fines for non-attendance on parade. The appeal was dismissed with costs. The Government have decided so far, on appointing one assignee in bankruptcy iu each of the four large centres namely, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. The names of those appointed are for the present, witheld from publication. WANGANUI. News was received yesterday from Mr Rochfort that the Native obstructions have withdrawn their opposition to the Central Railway Survey, which will be continued at once, as originally projected. AUCKLAND. A lad named Henry Brounbont was accidentally shot at Waiuka by a settler named Anthony May. The boy is in a precarious condition.

It is understood that Antonio Goschliell, against whom a verdict of wilful murder was returned at the recent inquest in a lunatic asylum, is to be placed on his trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court for the murder of his fellow lunatic, James Jolme Mills, it is expected, as a preliminary, he will be brought before a magistrate and' committed for trial.

A fire broke out at 9 o'clock last in the upper floor of the warehouse of Mr Arthur Heather, merchant, Custom House Street but it was suppressed by the fire brigade.’ The damage done by the fire itself would only amount to a few hundred pouuds, but considerable damage is believed to have been caused by the water, which flooded the ground floor and cellar. The insurances amount to £13,000.

, NAPIER, The report that young Reardon’s body was found on Monday was without foundation. Every endeavor lias been made to recover the body The s.s. Boojum and several bcato have been engaged in searching near where Pis-sdcu was last seen, but, so far, without At the incu. ot on the bodies of Meek and the jury returned a verdict that the deceased persons died from exposure and exhiUktioa, consequent upon the upsetting of a boat.