TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1268, 3 January 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

| ONITED PRKSS AkaoOIATION| i ! I'IRE AT WANGANUL , Wanganui, this day. A fire broke out this morning iii a sixroomed house belonging to Mrs Marshall. It has been onoeoupied for two months. The origin of it is unknown. The insurance is £175 in the.London, Liverpool and Qlobe. • ' : •

' ' Lyttklton, thiaday. • The Lyttelton graving dock opened! today, and the day was observed as a holiday. The weather is favorable and calm, but eloudj. Large crowds\witnesaed! the ceremony. ■

CUSTOMS RETURNS, y-! : Wellington, this day, The Custoniß roturns ;for the colony for tho last month wo £1)3,395, beer duty £7073. For the corresponding month of 1881,- thoy wero customs £128,881j beer duty £9598. For the nine mouths April to December inclusive, the customs; duties amounted to £1.119 282, and the beer duty £45,495. ; ' !, • J

DEATH BY DBOWNING. . Dunebin, this day. A la.l pained Beag, aged 12, wai drowned in.Shag merwhile, bathing.

DEATH JY POISON. '' ' / , x Auckland,,this day. H. J. Smith; for many /yews Commercial Iravoljer Clarke and Sons, warehousemen",, poisoned Ibitnaelf < at his residence, North Shore, yesterday. He had been at the races with his wife, and ' seemed iu good healtli.'J.Aflbr bis return hi went into hii rooin; and'hia wife going in iiitne time afterwards'fnuild him lying down with two ompty buttles of chloral. The doctii'r. watj aunt fpr and applied the ( stomach puinp 1 ' I but; ,)Titli no avail, the 'patient dying soon-afterwards; It is not kno\i?ii whelhdiv it:• itf a' case of suicide, or whether he had taken an over dose of the drug. No cause is knowtv.fnr suicide.