Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3268, 29 July 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

FIRE AT DANEVIRK. I Death by- Suffocation- * 8l Woodville, Monday, q A man named Benbow was burned ,1 to death at the hotel lire at Danerirk. j He was employed as groom, and - v appears to have been suffocated in .. trying to make his escape, The „ other inmates got out of tho building f wilh difficulty. Insurances—£soo ] South British; £SOO New Zealand; £IOO Standard; also on furniture and billiard table £3BO Union, and ; £320 Standard. ( Illegal Arrest. ' [ Wellington, Monday, ! Judgment was delivered this morn- " ing in tho Hay and Thompson case. , Plaintiff was arrested here on a telegram from Invercargili but no warrant ■vas produced. The defendant is Inspector of Police here, The Chief ( Justice held the arrest in the absence , of the warrant was illegal. < Larceny as a Bailee- j Gisborne, July 27." ' Patrick Ryan was committed for ! trial for larceny as a bailee of a ' horse. A Maori was also committed •■' for housebreaking and theft. Poultry Show- ] Navier, July 27. ' The Poultry and Canary Assoeia- ' tion's show this year has been an unexampled success. There were exhibits from nearly nil parts of the Colony. Among the outsiders the ; most prominent prize-taker wasE, E. Bannister, of Wellington, Speculation. Dunedin, July 28, It is reported that a Taieri sportsman made £IOOO last week dabbling in Nenthorn shares, Retired with the Funds. I Gisborne, Monday. Members of the defunct "J" Battery, who were to receive a , dividend of 30s on the wind up of the \ corps, have been "left" by the ! troasurer (who was recently dismissed , from .the Bank of New Zealand) leaving for Sydney with about £3O of J tho Battery funds, At a meeting of j members it was decided not lo issue a ] warrant to bring him back. j FALSE PRETENCES. ' Gisborne, Monday. At the Police Court this morning 9 George Hill was committed for trial on two charges of obtaining by • false " pretences from James Finlay, hotel j keeper, bacon and bams to the value of £7 8s 4d, and £lO 5s 3d. Accused , represented he was branch manager n of the Christcliurch Dairy Company, and on such representations the * bacon was supplied, Eobt. Gainsj ford, manager of the Christcliurch Dairy gavo evidenco he had no branch, had never heard of Hill, and 1 there was. no Christcliurch Dairy r Company in Oliristcliurch,

Found Drowned

Auckland, Monday,

Tho body of Lampn, who Ims been missing for some weeks at Te Kui'i, has been found in the river near Kuiti, He had been employed by Mr Tanner and sent to look for some cattle near Otorohanga, and it is supposed he had been drowned in attempting to cross the creek,

Auckland Items.

Auckland, July 26,

At thoadjourned meetingof colonialborne sympathisers with the cause of Home Rule for Ireland, a committeo was appointed to draw up an address to the Irish delegates, A settler writing from Herekino Special Settlement denies that there is any starvation there, and says the reports that settlers are starving are spread by people thero who do not 1 want work.

The Waikiito County Council liavo decided lo invite other local bodies of the district to send representatives to a meeting which is to bo held to consider tho question of railway freights, A demand is to bo made of a reduction ot DO per cent on freights for produce sent from the district, and that all manures be sent by railway free, At the Polico Court to-day, Dr Giles, 8.M., paid a tribute to the lato Mr Justice Gillies, and said that by his death the Bench had suffered a loss that would not easily be filled, Mr Hesketh, senior member of tho li.ir present, endorsed His Worship's remarks. The funeral of the lato Mr Justice Gillies will tako place on Monday it 3 p.m. The remains will bo interred in St. Andrew's Cemetery Epsom. Monday, McDonald, one of the Sehvyn football team, bioko his collar bono in the match on Saturduy,

Arrived I ho" Largo Bay" barque, from London with cargo valid at £21,000. This is the vessol which collided with the Glencoc, the latter going down with all hands,