TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1852, 12 February 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A store at Waeraiigahika, near Gisborne, owned and occupied by W. Golebrook, have been destroyed by fire. The insurances amount to £7OO. W. Smith, who is described .as middleweight champion of Australia, and J. Cunningham, of Wellington, met in a glove tight at Island Bay on Saturday. Smith knocked his opponent out in the fourth round. About 250 persona were present. At the conclusion Smith said that he was quite prepared to meet Laiug, the Hew Z-Juland champion. The reported existence of the Bathurst burr in the Camara district is incorrect. The seeds which were taken for the burr turn out to be those of a kind of clover which has been growing in the district for many years, and which was introduced from Home along with other clover seeds. The plant is a good forage one, and has never injured the wool. A woman named Hannah Brown died in the Dunedin hospital, and at the inquest on Thursday the evidence showed that she had been found in n wretched house in Maitland street so close and filthy that it turned everyone who went into it sick. Attention was attracted by her moaning, when the door was broken open, and she wns removed to the hospital. The jury found that she had died from natural causes accelerated by drinking. In an interview at Auckland on Thursday night Mr Mitcbelaon requested Te Kooti to postpone Ida proposed visit to Gisborne, as there was some feeling against him on the part of Europeans and natives. To Kooti, however, staled that ho was pledged to the visit, and the interview ended without ids stating he would give up his intention.