TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1867, 19 March 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

About 1 a.m. on Sunday the Railway Hotel, atKaikoora North was destroyed by fire, also the stables adjoining. P. T. Limbrick, the proprietor, is a great loser. A drunk named Richard Pool, arrested at Waipawa, on Friday, gnawed the whiskers off one side of Sergeant McCardell’s face. The prisoner used vile language when in the cells. The body of a man named James Clark was found in a small stream near Woodville. Deceased had stripped and left his clothes on the main road and thrown himself into the stream in two feet of water. He was evidently suffering from the effects of a drinking bout. The weather continues to be fine at Blenheim and the opening of the New Zealand Rifle Association’s meeting took place yesterday. The last of the com* petitors arrived on Sunday morning. The general arrangements of the camp are good. The number of competitors are 200, and the meeting is expected to last a A large and orderly meeting was held at Christchurch on Friday night to express smoathy with Mv Parnell. Mr W. P. Reeves, Mr D. Reese, Mr Nolan, Mr Loughnan, and others took part injure proceedings. Resolutions expressing sym* pathy with Mr Parnell and his colleagues, and thanking Mr Gladstone and the Liberal party, were carried unanimously. A subscription list for the Parnell defence fund was opened. Mr John Holmes and the Rev. E. F. Chambers (Episcopalian) wrote expressing their sympathy. The rate on wool by steamers has been reduced one eighth of a penny per pound. There has also been a reduction on flax and grass seed to the extent of about 10* per ton by steam and sailing vessels. A woman named Maher was found dead in her house in Alexandra street, Auckland, on Friday morning. The previous night her son and daughter when they came home found her lying on the floor, but went to bed leaving her there. Next morning she discovered she was dead. At the inquest on Mrs McCormick, at Goldsborougb, near Hokitiki, the medical evidence showed that she died of sanguineous apoplexy. The bruise on the temple was sustained when falling, and not inflicted by the cow’s kick. A verdict was returned accordingly.