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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1185, 21 September 1882, Page 2

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| UNITED PRESS ASSOOIATION | WOOL MARKET.

WelmngtoNj this day, The N.Z, Loan and Mercantile Agency report, under date London, September 18 :-The wool market is unchanged. The sale programme has been curtailed by four days, Bank of Enriand rate is 5 per oent. •' '■'' "' : .' ■ '■■ LABGE PIEE AT AUCKLAND.

'Auckland, this day. A large block of wooden buildings, recently erected in.' Kyber pass, the property of 6.- P. Pierce, manager of the New Zealand Insurance, were totally destroyed by fire at three o'clock this morning. The block comprised five shops, three of which were occupied by J. Keid, cabinetmaker; Boyle, fruiterer, and Burns. It originated at Eeid's, who is at present at Waikato, The insurance on the building is £I7OO in New Zealand, and reinsured for ,in the National. Eeid's stock &o, £IOO in New Zealand. On Burns' and Boyle's stocks £l5O each in Standard. A:STBANGE SUICIDE. . X New Plymouth, September 20. An inquest has been held on the body of Robert Powell, who hung himself yesterday, The evidence went to show that tho deceased was in his usual health yesterday, and had been in town during the morning, and that he was engaged at: his ordinary business in the afternoon. About half-past four o'clock he went out of the shop to the back storeroom where flour and other goods are kept. Mrs Powell went into the storeroom about ten or fifteen minutes afterwards, and found her husband suspended from the roofcby a rope. She acted with,-. great Ipromptilude, '■ and before even raising an alarm she obtained & knife and out the rope. It was too late, however,to aavolife, as'-''it was found on examination, that',-the body,: though warm, was quite dead. She then raised an alarm, and a number of neighbors came' to her assistance.- ■ Mrs Powell said when she saw thebody the feet were resting on a box, and that the whole weight of deoeased a.body was not on the rope. It .ftppeara, therefore, that strangulation could only have been oansed by.repeated efforts of deceased. The rope was a common clothesline, and one end of it had been- formed into a noose, the other end Tieing, twisted several times round "riot tied.' • The arrangements for 'suspending -the rope and forming tb noose appeared, to have been veryhaatuy carried'oat. Mrs Powell can assign no reason for therashaci, and states ■that her husband had not been drinking, nor had he done or said anything to lead her to apprehonoVthafc he meant'any mischief to himself.- The' jury returned a verdict olfdo dt «e, and the Corpnerotdered the body to be interred between the hours of nine and twelve ■to-night. ■ ;v;..^.; : u.._~.™ ...'-■- -—:—:.„_:;..: