TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1646, 13 October 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The house of Henry Cramer, at Eocky Nook, Auckland, was burned down on Tuesday night. Total loss £250, At the general meeting of the South British Insarance Company at Auckland yesterday the report stated that the income for the last year was £248,631 4s 6d, and the expenditure £235,048 Is 3d. The balance to the credit of the Profit and Loss Account was £8503 Ss 3d. The directors recommend the payment of a dividend of 4 per cent for the last half year. The Premier has received a cablegram from the Premier of Victoria, stating that the final date for receiving applications for space at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition is 31st December next. At the Christchurch Police Court yesterday G-reve De Brun was charged with setting fire to his stationer's shop on October sth with intent to defraud the Victoria Insurance Company. He was remanded to Thursday. The evidence showed that the stock was insured for £3OO, and personal effects for £BOO. The stock in the shop when the fire occurred was very small. The wall, carpet, and part of the stock were, saturated with kerosene. A married woman named Mrs Osborne, who had a family, hanged herself at 12.30 on Wednesday, in her own house at Parnell, Auckland. It would appear that she went into the kitchen where some vegetables were hanging, took them down, got a chair, and putting her head through a noose, kicked the chair away and was strangled to death, Her husband when he cam* home for lunch observed the body hanging and cut it down. The deceased had. lately been in a depressed state of mind. An analysis has been received at Maaterton of samples of flour and bread consumed by a family named Petersen at Carterton on the 13th August, which produced symptoms of poisoning, and was followed by the death on 20th of a child four years of age. There was no poison, but the flour was old and mouldy, and the I bread heavy and unwholesome.