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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1518, 25 October 1883, Page 2

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Press Association. . r ' Auchland, Thursday. John Walker, aged 92 years, a , Waterloo veteran, died at Mount Eden i goal, having been committed lately, for [ vagrancy. He was .bom, k; India in i 1791, and was one. of the first English born subjects under the; British Crown i there, and was in this colony in 1840.' The damage to Heather's stock by the late fire is estimated at £2000; At the Surrey Hill estate sale 67 ; allotments fetched £20,227, The , estate contains upwards of 2000 allotments, )■:, '■'■',. ' ■■. Hawera, Thursday. ■' The Prostestanfc Hall was destroyed by firp last night. There had been a | dance, and about an hour after its : termination a fire brake out.' The Oddfellows', Good Templars', and ! Orangenieh's regalia, books, papers, | etc., f: were burnt. The , insurance on the building is £350 in [ the New Zealand. The cause of the i fire is unknown. < 1 Invercarqill, October 24. , A man named Charles Sims comi mitted suicide in East Invercargill by i discharging a gun into his mouth. |. Deceased came to Southland by the |. ship Western Monarch, in 1878, and ' had been employed as surfaceman on , the railways till laid up with supposed , spinal disease. He had been in and > out of the hospital here several times, and doctors failed to find any indica- ; tions of disease, und supposed the case . one of incipient brain disease. He was i a most troublesome patient, and, in the I opinion of medical .men, was more a | subject for the Asylum, He had no family, and his wife worked to sup- , port both latterly. She went out , about 4 o'clock, when he was cleaning a gun; on returning she found him i. dead, The landlord says he heard two 1 shots, but did not think anything of them. Deceased, was formerly resident ' in Australia, Jand emigrated to New Zealand, and from what can be gathered, seems to have been hypochondriacal onarrivalinthe colony. The suicide caused uo surprise to those who had watched deceased. Dunedin, October 24. Ah Wee, a Chinaman, has committed suicido at Jacob's Gully by hanging himself from a tree. AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. Auckland, October 24. In a case in the Resident Magistrate's Court Murdoch v. Sydney Taiwhanga, a claim for £54 for goods supplied, sued on a .promissory note, plaintiff was nonsuited, as according to the Act of 1883, the note should have been interpreted into Maori, defendant being a native.' It seems that a copy of the Act had not reached Auckland when the note was ; mado out, • • .THE PRICE OF MUTTON. Dunedin, October 24. The,frozen-meat "trade seems to be telling a tale on the supply of mutton for the local market. .At the Yards to-day, prime merino sheep brought up to 20s 3d, and mutton is quoted at fully 3|d per lb by the Auctioneer. Dunedin, October 24. The master butchers of Dunedin met to-night, between 40- and 50 being present, and decided }o raiso the price of all butchers' meat by ono penny per pound. It was also agreed to : plose at six p.m. on all days but Saturday. The Redmonds leave for Invercargill in the morning. The amount subscribed hero will be about £4OO. The young man shot accidently at Balclutha yesterday used the stage. name Heywood, but his real name was Hall. He was buried here to-day. The Rev C. J. Byng performed the ceremony at the grave, and invited deceased's professional friends to St. Matthew's in the evening, when he preached a sermon in. connection with the sad event. »• « i Dunedin, Thursday. 'The libel action Denniston v Daily Times commenced to-day, Messrs Stout and Crooke for plaintiff, and Messrs Smith and Chapman for defendants. ' The tender of Messrs Fergus k Blair, of Dunedin, for' £94,074 for the construction of the 'Merßey-Deloraine railway has been accepted by the'Tasmanian Government. Auckland, Thursday. The half-yearly meeting of. the Bank of New Zealand was-held to-day, The profits are reported as £84,000, or rather less than for the last half year. The usual dividend of 15 per cent, was declared. £25,000 was added, to the reserve, and £B9OO carried forward. Coin and money at short call in London is one million nine hundred thousand.