Fatality.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3421, 29 January 1890, Page 2

Fatality.

; • ':'.; AuotU/iND, January 28. A man named R. Palmer, a settler, was [killed in Oripibush, near Tau. mtiga, by the falling of a tree. Draughts Tournament.

Duseein, January 28. In the sixth round of the Australasian and South Seas Championship Tournament, Boreham, of Oaraaru, beat Warnook, of New South Wales, by two games, one draw to one. The final round was started at 4 o'clock, but no game was completed. On resuming at 7 there waa a -very large attendance, and intense excitement t when Warnock made a winning move in the first game aoroßH. The Becond game was another' cross; Boreham trying to force a win, missed his hold, and Warnock Bcored a second win. The third game was still another] cross: Boreham seeing he could do no more than draw, resigned, and Warnock won the ohampionship amidst great exoitement." Warnook takes £25 and the championship; Boreliam, £ls, 2; Brodie, £10,3; Hutton, £7los, 4 ; Reid, ffl, 6. The competitors will be entertained at supper to-morrow night. The first three prize-takers were born in Otago Warnook being an old Dunedin man.

New Zealand Accident Insurance Company.

Auckland, January 28,

The New Zealand Acoident Insurance Company beld their usual meeting to-day. The report ehowed that £BOOO had been capitalised, which increases their paid up capital from £ 2OOO to £SOOO, upon which latter amount a dividend of 1H per cent for the past year was declared. A vote of thanks was passed to4he management; _^