TELEGRAPHIC.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22207, 1 March 1900, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(From our own Correspondent.)

'FORGED TOTALISATOR TICKETS

Napier,. Feb* 28 ! William* Hoskings Marriott was found guilty of uttering forged tota:isator tickets,, and ordered to pay icosts of the prosecution.

CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH. : Gisborne, Yesterday. There was-a-large native gathering 'at Tearairoa, East Gape, on the occasion of the Consecration of the Parish Church. Archdeacon Williams has offered'£ if the natives will raise <£2ooo for d native clergy stipend fund..

SUDDEN.DEATH: Auckland, Last night. A middle aged man named Frederick Hooper,, residing- in Herne Bay Road; Pbnsonby, died very suddenly ‘this afternoon. He had called at the residence of' a friend named Mrs iMiller, living off Karangahape Road, to take a cup of tea, and while sit ing in the house he suddenly fell back and I expired-

FIRE IN AUCKLAND. | Auckland, Last night. The Queensland bakery,, a shop in Wakefield - street, owned by Mr Lester,. and' occupied By Messrs Foley 'and O’Callaghan, -was destroyed by .fire early this morning. The five was first discovered at a quarter past one, by some of the City Council contractors’ men who roused the inmates and (helped them to put out the fire. TRIAL. OF THOMAS GALLOWAY Dunedin, Yesterday.. The trial of Thomas Galloway on a charge of wife murder,, at South Dunedin, began to day and will occupy the whole of to-morrow. FOUND LYING INSENSIBLE Invercargill, Yesterday. J'man about thirty, name unknown, was found lying insenftble alongside the railway near the Gore yesterday afternoon and was brought to* Invercargill 1 hospital, where he died. Two hours later it is supposed he fell off a train..., A „ ~ THE UmVEiiITY senate: Wellington, Yesterday. This University Senate opened this naorning. The chancalAor delivered biannual address. income for the year amounted to £7133,. and expenditu; o was £6504, leaving a balance of £629. Sir James Hector is to be nominated for a further term, the chancellorships appointed will be made to-morrow.