Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2994, 4 September 1888, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Drowned,'

. [' Wellington, Tuesday. The body of E, Gormloy, cab proprietor, was found on the Te Aro foreshore ; this morning. Deceased was last seen alive last night; It is not known how he oamejli the water but it is believed'he fell off, the breastwork.

Alleged Cattle Stealing.

Pahutua, Tuesday, - Two Mangatamoka village settlers, named Parjcer and ' Jenkins, we arrested yesterday on a oharge of cattle stealing and taken to the Woodvillp lock-up. They are both married men. Two more arrests for the samo thing are expected,

Coal Export.

Greyjiouth, Tuesday, '■' The export of coal last weok was 4,815 tons, over 2,000 tons.being sent away on Saturday. •

MYSTEEOUSFIRE.

Blenhkid, Tuesday. A fire occurred about midnight. in Maxweil-road at- Corbett's Temperance Boarding-house; The proprietor and most of liis (ojght) boarders were asleep- and- providentially, one boarder, Walker, a billiardist, returned late, and on entering found a strange man lying on, the sofa in the sitting-room and the-house'full of smoke, He. aroused the landlord, but in tho' confusion and smoke the man went away, In a minute or two the hop.was in flames, the boaders losing everything and the family only just got out iu time to save their lives. Tho houso and nearly all the cpntents were destroyed. The adjoining house, Rayner's; and the opposite.one, Dr. Cleghorn's, were saved with difficulty. At ten o'clock Constable Franklin arrested a man at tho Commercial Hotel with being illegally on |h_e premisoji,, to; be a Dane named and said he went in for a; bed,;-but could riot make anybody hear,' and he then laid down. No connecting evidence was He was sentenced to fourteen days in gaol,