TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1022, 14 March 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

FIRE HEAR BLENHEIM,

(PER UNITEn PRESB ASSOCIATION.) Blenheim, March 13. On Saturday last the house and outhuilding6 occupied by Mr Atwood, at Amersfoot, were totally destroyed by fire, which originated by sparks from the chimney falling on to a large coating of decayed leaves lying on the roof. The fire was first discovered by Mrs Atwond, who was alone with her children in the house. She tried to run upstairs to t&va some £36 in cash in a chest of drawers, but was driven baek by the flames, and was only able to save her children andget out of the building. Atwood, being totally uninsured, loses everything, and not only all his furniture and effects, bat also : a lot of belting and piping for a threshing machine, besides other gear. He fortunately succeded in saving an entire horse from the stable while it was in James. Only last week Mr Atwood intended Insuring his property, and wn actually on hss way to do so, when hi wsb met by a friend and prevented from executing the purpose.

FORGING AND UTTERING. Wellington, this day. Jules Cteaar Huysman has been com- " mitted for trial for forging and uttering a cheque of the value of £4. '';■> OFF AT LAST. The Volunteer Land Scrip Coramlssioi leave for Auckland on Thursday, com. mencing proceedings on Monday, VOLUNTEEBING AT THE THAMES* •• Thames, this day. /\ Gordon, carbine champion, arrivod last night at 11,30. The Volunteers and Fir* Brigades turned out and the Mayor gives • an address and a ball to-night. The Scottish Band wero presented with sold medals lust night at a concert held tor the purpose. The medals were first prine at the late contest m Auukl.mil. Mr Brvce is expected lior* by the end of the week. FATAL EAILWAY ACCIDENT. Invehcargiu, March 13. A young man named Janus McDonald, li'eman >n the Kiverton-Orepuki line, wnf iun ivcr jiy a this morning, ■Wh eii9ii!ii!> wi'h'm a short tiino. Hii parents reside at the Bluff. SCAB IN PATEA DISTBICT. Patea, this day, Tlnee CHKRB »f scab are reported on the Wlienunkura block, and aerioo.9 apprehen"ions are held by the flockowners in the district. FATAL ACCIDENT. Oamaru, this day. A man named Peter McKenna, supposed to he from Makihiki, was caught in a oow-catcher of an engine of a Bpecial train bringim,' the mail last night near Oamaru and so soveroly injured that he Is not eipecieJ to live, He had been drinking, and had fallen aoroas the rail- - way line.

SUDDEN DEATH. Auckland, This day, . An. .old woman named Jane Robertson, living alone at Devonport, was found dead in hor residence last evening, having evidently expired in a fit. She WM la»t seen on Sunday morning,