TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 15 May 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UHIIED PBESS ASSOCIATION)

Dunedin, May 14. The expenditure in outdoor relief of the Trustees of the. Benevolent Institution for the past year shows a reduction of £7OO on the previous year. At the meeting of the Hospital Trustees a letter was read from Mrs Bachelor, asking if the Trustees were prepared to accept the sum of £1270, which had been raised towards the erection of a ward for the treatment of special diseaees of women, upon a distinct understanding that the

money be devoted to the purpose for which it was raised. A motion that the money be accepted, subject to the conditions Btated, was Jost ( in favor of on amendment to the effect that consideration be deferred till the proposed.Nursos' Home be erected, and that the Trustees see what is then necessary.

.Frozen Meat.

Inybhoargiiii, May 14

The 6,8, Nairnshire, which is the largest vessel that has yet entered the Bluff Harbour, -takes away 9G50 carcases of mutton, besides wool, grain, and other produce. • The Southland Freezing Meat

Company, who recently increased the s ; ze of their refrigerating works at tho port, will proceed shortly to further exte.id them.

■Accidents aud Fatalities

DiraEDiN, May 1;

At the inquest on Thomas Sutter, a verdict was returned of death from prematuro decay, due to chronic alcoholism and also to insanity. : Chribtchdroh,May 14.

Henry Groves, a railway shunter, was run over by a truck and killed at 2,55 p,rn. 'No one saw the accident, Groves was a 'single man aged, 40, very bteady, jnd had been employed for ten years on tho railway, Yesterday a boat belonging to a fisherman named Walker, upset in the surf at New Brighton, Thomas Frost, who was riding along the beach, snam his horso into the sea, and with great difficulty saved Walker, who was almost exhausted,

The Executors md Agency Co. Diinedis, May 14.... At the annual meeting of the Trustees of' the Executors and Agency Company tins afternoon, the Chairman (Mr J. M. Ritchie), stated that the business of tho Company was gradually srowiug, and the profits, were larger by £2OO thau for the previous year. The net profits were £IOB2 8s Id, out of which the amount of a dividend of 6 per cent was recommended, the balance of £4Blßs Id being carried forward to the reserve fund.

Inquests on Ftp.

Nelson', May 14. • Inquests were held to ; diiy concernhigjtwo fjroswliichopcurred at Waimea West on the fith and 7th April, The first case was thnt of ;m unoccupied six loomed house, owned by Christian Schwass, who was in Wellington at the time, The house was insured in the National for £IOO. The verdict was that there wbb no evidenca'to show tho origin. The second case was a six roomed house owned by Henry Schrtass, who, at the time was absent at Takaka with his family. The house was insured in the Colonial office for LIOO, tho stables for L 75, an 3 the "furniture 'for L3Q," all destroyed. The verdict was' that it was wilfully set ou firo by'some person unknown.