TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1573, 3 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. FLOATING OP THE TRIUMPH. ■ ■ ■ ' Auckland, Thursday. The steamer ■ Triumph was successfully floated this morning, and is now about a mile from Tiritiri, steaming towards Auckland. SUICIDE. WoODViUKy this day. A man named Edwin Donkin, formerly employed on Cowper and Knight's station, committed suicide at Kaitoko, The body was found hanging to a tree'in the bush yesterday by Cowper. No cause is yet assigned for the act. An inquest will be held. SERIOUS RESULTS OF SCAB. Wellington, Thursday. In consequence of scab between Wellington and Napier the road between these places lias been closed so far as the conveyance of sheep is concerned. A deputation, consisting of Messrs Levin and Buchanan, M.H.R.'s waited on the Colonial Secretary asking that the road should ho opened under the proper precautions. The sheep inspectors of Masterton were, however, opposed to it under even the strictest possible precautions, and Mr Dick therefore refused to agree to the request. Napier, Thursday. An hotel at Wanstead was destroyed by fire yesterday at noon, Insurances —stock and furniture, .£250, building .£SOO in South British. Half of the hitter was re-insured in the National. Wellington, Thursday, The Agent-General telegraphs the departure of the Northumberland with ICO'immigrants, and the Rangitikei with 341 both for Auckland, At the inquest on the body of T. G, Pickers, who hung himself on New Year's Day, a verdict was returned that the deceased committed suicide while • suffering from temporary insanity. A young man named Robert Broadbent, a draper's assistant, has been arrested on a charge of larceny as a servant, •