[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1649, 30 January 1883, Page 2

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

< '■ BLENHEIM, Last Night. An old settlor named W. Pipe was acuidcntly killed on Sunday. He was riding along a disused track in Warren Valley, when his horse bolted and lan into a telegraph pole, killing his rider instantly. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest.

OHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The Ho n H. W. Reynolds, chairman of the Electric Light aiul Power Company (Limited), accompanied by Mr W. Price, the company's engineer, arrived from Dunedin on Thursday, and to-day 'have entered into a contract with the Lyttleton Harbour Board for lighhig the harbour by means of the Brush electric flight. -Sixteen 1 ■ lights of 32,000 total 'candle. power are to be used, and the in jatallation is to be commenced forthwith. On Saturday afternoon a man named Leak, described as a carpenter at the 1 Theatre Royal,' was arrested for. commiting an .indecent assault on a girl five years old in a paddock opposite the Ttieatre Royal. 1 • The Acclimatisation Society have disjtributed oyer £3,000 y.quug trout. during tthe last season. , ' < ' Heavy rain fell last night, but it is not I calculated to do any harm to the crops, i The weather is now clearing up. It was .terrifically 'hoi on 1 Sunday, and a case" of . sunstroke in the harvest field' is reported from Prebbleton. f , i

'- ' ' '/DUNEDBT, Last Night. 'At the City' "Court," Thos. Dobie was committed' fob trial 'on two charges of stealing sewing machined. '•. • • , . ' The information against ,Mr Proudfoot, tramway, proprietor, for using noiseless engines, has been dismissed. ■. > , ,•

, KAIKOURA.jLast Night. ' ; A't ,ttie' inquest , on" thel death of (tHe w.om^n.Fraiiqis^ Jacob, jwluch was cpncluded on Statiirday , evening," .th'e^evid^nce ahowed that^ttie wdman Vas* clelibefaltely. murdered bjr her husbap.d, fi.iti t ma Jacob. As shoWing'^af; pi*eni^dit4t<>d (/ irft|;ure $ of the tjridei itfniay be' slated tua^he went to his wife tci ge^*the!."settmg-stone and oil with which 15 "to sharpen .'the* kii'ife. proved *hk, to^iiUprop'eli i^tiinWcy between deceased^ and ; her bi-bfcHeriih-lawrb'ut'tHatsuiQh-exwted'atfd .was 1 M*cinespi HW Hximp^iii' beybnd aBtfl)t; viJJ Th'^jury'^6nfad Ar that^d6ceased fiatl^m^lieri'aea^'^p thP hahd^;6f,

deuce of^amel^f^i'^^penter, was destroyed. TnFxirigin^is attributed to childrehi S i throwiifjEjb^ ligkted| matche3 witßinjjshe scn\b.f^The foremises were owned f Ijy Mr VBidweUj*" runholder. Tyireedlefestimates'his loss j£t £100.

ft Si Vi N^PlEBJr'Yesterday. P. Willianis, siieep farmer, near" West Clive, M-.as found drowned yesterday evening. The young lady was missed at tea-time. An extensive search was made, and the neighbours were communicated with. The search continued all Sunday, Avhen the body was found in a cesspool at the back of the house. The Exchange Hotel, Havelock, fourteen miles from here, was totally destroyed by fire last night. ' The building contained 23 rooms, and was insured for £1000, the furniture for £300, and the -stock for £200 all in the Union office. „ , The statement of the hospital accounts shows that since 1577 to ihe present.time JC91.200 has been subset ibed by the public and contributed by local bodies, but the total amount of subscription received from the Government only reached £3,710 during the same period.

WELLINGTON,- Yesterday. The body of -the, man, Mahon, ( who lias been missing since Monday last,, was found this on the, beach at Kaiwara. < I It ' is supposed < that * while searching for his child, who wandered a^-ay, he fell into the Hutfc i-iver and was drowned. A lad named Francis Ward Pearce, aged 17 years, son of James Pearce, farmer, fahutanui, was thrown from his horse yesterday morning and killed. .