TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2821, 13 February 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Fell From Upstairs Window,

Naher, February 13.

J, A. Keardon, of flasiiugs, while opening an upstairs window overbalanced and fell out on to the verandah and tin nee to the ground, a distance of 14 feet. He smashed his leg below the knee The injured limit wub amputated, but lie never recovered and died at 11 a.m on Sunday,

Fire at Hastings,

Hastings, February 13,

The resilience of T. D, Ovey, at Hastings, was destroyed by fire yesterday, It was insured for £7OO in the Union Offijs.

Melancholy Suicide.

Auckland, February 13,

Lucy Denize, aged 2*2, the daughter of an Onelmnga settler was drowned in Lake Taltapuna on Saturday. She suffered from melancholia and it is supposed threw herself in,

Oamaru Rifle Meeting,

Oajiauu, February 13.

Forty competitors from I ucklatid have entered for the Rifle Meeting at Oamaru,

Laing v Slavin.

Wellington, February 13,

Laing has intimated his vvillinsneas to meet Slavin for any sum over LIOO. It is expected that tho fi»ht will take place in Wanganui eight woelta from date.

A Body Exhumed,

Christchurch, February 13. The body of a married woman named Annie .Watson was exhumed on a coroners' warrant this morning. The woman died on February Bth aud was buried the following day. The neighbors reported to the police that deceased and' her husband had quarrelled, henoe the course taken, An inquest will be held this evening.