TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1991, 7 January 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

George Tillett, who made himself notorious in the Greendale (North Canterbury) district by sticking up houses and demanding food, and who was sentenced to three years with hard labor, attempted to commit suicide at Eipa Island on Friday by throwing himself into the water. He was rescued by two fellow-laborers. The Rev. Crossdaile Bowen, incumbent of Ricearton and Archdeacon of Christchurch, died on Friday, aged 50. He was a brother to Mr 0. C. Bowen, formerly M.H.R. for Kaiapoi, and arrived in the Charlotte Jane, one of the first four ships. At the inquest at Dunedin on the Ash well family a verdict of accidentally burned was returned. It appeared that Ashwell senior and his wife got out, but rushed into the burning building to rescue the children. The wife was suffocated and her body carried out by her husband, who was fearfully burned. George Ashwell, a boy, saved the youngest sister by jumping out of a window with her, Tbs annual report of the Dunedin Benevolent Institution shows that the total number relieved during the year was 3145, a decrease of 900 as compared with the preceding year, The number received into the institution was 166, and the number discharged 176, leaving at the end of the year 179. There were 33 deaths during the year. The weekly average of relief was 190, which gives an average charge of 5s B£d per head per week. The amount disbursed for outdoor relief was £6742.