TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1723, 20 March 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT

.■ : • ... ' NAprEhy Monday. • ■ Donald MclCay,'licensee Of th© West Clive Hotel, was drowned; in the Ngaruro Eiver.”yesterday,/ . '.McKay, .-together with another, man‘named Thos. Hunt, wdh't s fishing;..- .They 1 , -rowed down the'Nger'uro Biver, and into:the Bay fori about. .a rpile in. the direction of, Kidhpppers.. ._ McKay acted very strangely, in the. boat-, throwing the oars overboard and rocking the buat so that it capsized, precipitating both men into’, the ’. water. When - Hunt 'came to the surface-he was pear the boat, which was bottom upwards, but MeKayohly appeared -on the once, and was never., seen alive afterThe- body, was; subsequently recover eel. An inquest was. held,, at which the following verdict was returned, “ That ideceastbd was drowned by the capsizingvpf ,a .bopt,, .such' capsizing being caused; by Ms‘o wn- act while temporarily insane.” „ DEATH. OE A NEW ZEALAND : -' > -A ; COMEDIAN' . i -;'f-.A'- Wellington,.'.Monday. A private'message - announces the death at Brisbane .of Harry Marshall, it.young coin.elian. weliiknown in the ic’dlony :.He-waa a nativo of Wellington, unff a son; of Mr E. A. Marshall, for many yeafS: Caretaker, of the Theatre Eoyal here.. . ' ALLEGED WRONGEtJE DISMISSAL ; - ’ Wellington, Monday. •In an ; action, ‘brought- by James Wood,'late Thahiiger of the Wellington Woollen Go.) claiming £7OO damages froin the for alleged wrongful femissaC ;; the'-jury‘ff6ffndi for the plaintiff fqr .Lloo in addition -to.ytbe LI 35 paid.into. Court-by the company. ..' DESTRUCTfYE'-FlffE AT- NAPIER

' Napier,- Monday. A fir© broke .out in the Tomoana BreezihgAVorks about thfee o’cleCk 'on: ;S unday mbrning, having its ; prigin in that, portion ofvthe : ,builditi'g: lised as a c irpenWr ß / fitter’s establishment', 'whioH'boa|aih a large stock, .pf machinery of all kmqs. .This building sfood detached, hut fright, in •the ceutfe of the-Works,’ and the flames were not quenched 'until! about £IOOO damages had been done. The origin is at present unknown. The insurance oh the building- destroyed was £2OO and on .-the machinery i|'3oO'; ibut this?? amount is copsiaerably'undep the estimated damage'. - ■ "-. ' i