TELEGRAMS. INTERPR0VINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 17 June 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAP H.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WANGANUI, Sunday. A jiarrikd woman named Biiggens was found dead on the Buinswick line this •iftcnioon. No particulars are yet to hand as to how she met her death.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. A girl named Lottie Giniey attempted Miie'de in the Wai tam liver yesterday morning, but uas ic&cuea.

CiraiSTCITURCH, Sunday. Sir Julius Vogi'l was to leave Lyttelton foi Wellington hist night. Saturday. A tciiihle fire occurred about four o'clock this morning, at Leeston, destioying a tuo-iooined cottagu on the South, (nidge io.id, o\\ ned bv Mr Holly. The cottage \us occupied by Frank Smith and his wife, and as ntither of them was to be found, the deblis was examined by Constable Simpson, were the charted remains ot Fiiiuk Smith and his wife were found. On further search Lemg made, a third body w as found, but at present it is not known who it is.

Monday. The thud body found in <he debris of Smith's licmsc at Lccston has been identified as that of Willum Thompson, ■who loft the Leeston Hotel on Kiidny night lather thu woisefoi' iiquor. No clue has been obtained .is to the cause of the fire. What is bohe\ cd to be attempted arson oeuuued last evening in Sydenham. A passei -by noticed .v l)laze under a house, and drew out a bundle saturated with ketosene. Had the discovery not been made piobably four cottages nould have been burnt. Ihe police are making enquincs.

O AMARU, Saturday. A meeting of the uuetnployod is to be held heicon Monday.

DUNEDIN, Monday. Guthiie and Lamach's Company was fonnailj' wound up to-day, the shareholders recei\ ing a divideud at the rate of Is in the t for their £3 shares. j Mr M. W. Gieen and Mr Fulton have already intimated their nitention of standing for their respective constituences of Duuedin and Taieri. Mr Feigns, M.H.R ior Waikatipu, arrived to-night from Tasmania. The Harbour Boa I'd works at the heads were formally initiated today when nu'inbeis ofthehoaid and other gentlemen \isited the spot by steamer. The fiust blast was filed to procure stone wherewith to build the man hole for the . tmpiovemcut of the bar.