NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2044, 13 August 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The body of George Buck, who wu drownei! while attempting to eros» th« Wan in oro Ri\er last Monday, has been found about 2S miles down the rnerfrom wlieie the accident ocenred. The Wellington Poultiy, Pigeon, Canaiy, Rabbit, and Cat Association* second annual show was opened by the Gou'inoi to-diy, Theie is a much larger number of entues than last year. In the ISeaiamelh poisining case Moor© was couiimttctl foi tual and his wife was disciplined,

GREY MOUTH, Tuesday. AichibaM Hunter, publican, of Hutter'i Terrace, Felson Creek, was thrown from his horse while liding home, and dragged over 200 yaids thiough one leg catching in the stiriup. His injuries are fiVe ribi broken, two of them in two places, and the left lung laceiated. The injuries are so seiious that they may prove fatal,

NELSON, Tuesday. At the inquest on the body of a man named Sparks, found in a ditch at Waimea, the evidence showed that Sparks, who was sixty years of age, had htoken his iieck by a fall. A verdict in accoid.uic was returned.

TIMARU, Tuesday. By a fire at Geraldine eaily this morning the Young Men's Club and a shop accupied by Mr HosUngs, saddler, were totally destioyed. Insuiances : £500 ia the Liverpool, London, and Globe, and £200 in the New Zealand. William Hare, one of the Canterbury pilgrims, who arrived in Lyttelton in December, 18r>0, in the shipCressy, died at the Hook yesterday.

CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The body of the newly boru female infant was found in the river near Stanmore biidge this morning.

DUNEDIN, Wednesday. Scott's backers have sent £100 to Sir J. D. Astly w itli a request he will endeavour to find a man in the United Kingdom to meet Scott in a 12 and 24 houis walk for £300 a side each match.

Bt/rwLEV Whitstable and Herue Bay the sea has encroached upon the land to such an extent that a landowner hat jnst obtained from the Blcan Assessment Committee a in hisiating, it having been piovided that dm ing the last 50 yeais nine acres of his land had been ab« sot bed. A comical misunderstanding gave rite to great nieriiinent at the meeting of the Hawkes Bay Education Boaid on the 21st of July last. Mr Ounond was reading out the result of the examination of pupil teaching when the following hap* pened : — Mr Ormond : " Mary Parker, 20 ; she's a woman." Mr Hill : No ; a girl." Mr Ormond : " Margaret Nichol« eon, 27 ; well she's a woman." Mr Hill-^fl "No ; a girl." Dr. Spencer : "At what' a^e does a gul become a woman, then !" Mr Ormond (somewhat my stifled): " Well, the next is Elizabeth King, 53. Bless me ! Isn't that rather old for a pupil teacher ?" By this time the Board piesented a collection of puzzled countenances, but as the brow of Mr Hill suddenly cleared at the last remark of Mr Ormond, as he ejaculated: — "Oh, tho«e riguies are not the girls' ages; they are their numbers on the cards." The Board found iclief in a hearty laugh,