TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1451, 7 January 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Richard Dean, a settler at Waiuku (Auckland), who fell from bis horse the other day, died on Tuesday from concussion of the brain.

Complaints are made that continued dry weather is affecting the crops in Southland.

As a result of the inquiry by the Gisborne Hospital Committee, the services of Mr Binfield and wife, the wardsman and matron, have been dispensed with. The evidence proved that there had been unlimited drink consumed, and a great orgie and disturbance among wardsmen aud patients ; also an unlimitad visiting by men to the female ward. The racehorse Consul has been destroyed. A Maori was arrested at Parikaka on Sunday. No opposition was offered. At the inquest on the Waipawa fire a verdict was returned that there was nothing to show how the fire had originated. At a meeting of the Town Board a special vote of thanks was awarded to the Napier Fire Brigade and Mr A. Y. McDonald, District Manager of Railways, for putting on a special train. An unoccupied four-roomed house at Haw era owned by Mr Welby was discovered on fire yesterday morning, and together with another occupied by Mr Squire, a painter, was burned down. The insurance on the occupied house was £BO in the Union office. The other place was uninsured. A six-roomed house on York Road, near Midhurst, New Plymouth, was burned an Tuesday. It was ewned by a Mr Worms. It caught fire when the family were out milking. The fire commenced near the chimney. The building was insured for £2OO and the furniture for £IOO. Nothing was saved.