TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3041, 30 October 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

A Good Dividend.

, _ Dunedik, October 29. ' The National Insurance Company declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per .annum, and a bonus of (id per share, leaving £] 1,094 to be carriod forward. Tho profits of'the year, with'the balance brought forward, give a total of 126,401 up to date, Tho Dunedin Exhibition. Dusbdin, October 29. Tho-sum of L296shas beenguaranteed for the proposed exhibition, LIOOO was obtained in- about an hour this morning, • . The New Goldlields. Bmnhbim, October 29. Tlio prospectors at Waikakaho (Hart and Gibson) got on Saturday 370z Wdwt of gold, including.a 16oz nugget. The first young lady who climbed to the claim was presented with a largo nugget, Fatal Accident OflßistoHimuii, October' 29. An Austrian stevedore named Charles |de Micliili was found lying uncoiuoious in the hold of the Arawa at 11.80 a.m. to-day. Ho had boon sent to pit some sheep into the reserve chamber of tho ship, and had evidently slipped down, falling twenty feet. His skull was iractured, and he died during the afternoon, deleaves a wife and three children. At tho inquest a tho man killcd'on tho Arawa to-day, a vordict of accidental doath was returned, with a rider calling attention to the need of life-linoa around, or netting over tho hatches in tween decks when mon'are working thore, The ovidenco, showed that tho deceased probably fell down tho hatchway through not seeing it in tlin dim lisht.

Grant v Manawatu Road Board

Verdict for Plaintiff.

' ■.:■'■ Wasoanw, October 29. . In tho caso Grant v Manawatu Road ( Board the jury retired at 4.'io and rej turned iuto Court at 9.85 '*ifch a threofourths verdict for the plaintiff; damans 1/17316s (id, with costs, and a certificate ; tor eight days oxtra allowance for counI eel. The costs will bo onormous. The ( case has lasted nino days, Mr Jelliooe for tbo plaintiff, aud Mr Fitzherbort for 1 the defendants. ; Horsestealing. 1 CiißisicHuitcn, October 29. A young man named Albert Goodwill was committed for trial on a oharge of | a horse belonging to George 1 Johnston, of Methven, on October 10, and another belonging to George T. | Baker, at Lake Coleridge, on October 12. There aro two charges of. hnrae--1 stealing at Kaiapoi pending against him, 1 Bail was refused, '- ■ ' Inquest, ■ ,'.. Duhboik,October29 At tho hnmest on William McLaughlin, who hung himself, the ovideuco went to show that' ho had worried greatly . about some bad speculation ho had mado. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned,