TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 28 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. J [JRB PBESS AaSOCIATrON.] I Cheistohubch, April 24. A railway porfer at Addington was killed while shunting a carriage, the wheels cutting his body in pieces.. He was an o'd and trusted employee, and, strangely, it was his last day for the duty, hiving got ihe appointment of n'oht watchman at another station. J F. Ford" and Co., helJ a sale of racehorses to-day,, but only disposed of I Mirelle, by Traducer — Opera, for £40, the purchaser beinst Mr Beaumont, of Heathcote. Satellite was passed in at £90, Blazing Star at £27 10p, Rore, 3 yrs old by Totara — Corona, at £4.5. * '' , DfrebbiN,' ApriF 22 Butler this* morning pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary at Stamper's house, but not for stealing^ from the Catholic Church, Jury, without leaving boy, found him guilty on both counts and the; Court sentenced him to penal servitude for eighteen years, and ten years for burglary, sentences to run concurrently, in all eighteen yeais. The Judge expressly stated that the heavy sentence was not caused by suspicion in any respect to the murder charge, but because of Butler's previous dangerously criminal career. Wellington,. April 4 23. At a special meeting of thef City Council last- bight, it, was .resolved that in consequence of the fire brigades disbanding, that the laborers in the em* ploy of the Corporation, be formed into a brigade pro. tern. The City Euginepr has taken charge of all the plant. Auckland, April 23 The German war- ship Bismarck has received telegraphic instructions to sail to Valapariso, douth America, owing to the disturbances there affecting German , interests. Bank of New Zealand half-yearly meeting. Nett profits to thirty-first March, £74,000. making, with premiums on sale of new shares, etc., £97,000 available for-dUW-bution,-- Fifteen per cent diyfdend, £50,000 ; bonus f <ff five per cent per annum. £25,000; carried to the profit and loss, £22,000. The circumstances under which the seizure, yesterday, of two. totalisafors and the men connected with their wort» ! ing was effected is stated to be as follows :— During the morning it was I rumoured that one of the totalisators had been tampered with, and in the afternoon the police were informed of a great swindling transaction in connection with one of the machines. Wellington, April 24. George Jonathan Binns lias* been ap« pointed District Inspector of Mines for Westport, and other districts of Middle . Tsland. It is probable th'it snma changes in the Wardensbip of the West Coast will shortly ensue, tending to amalgamation and reduction of expenses. Other De* partments will also be curtailed where practicable, according to lobby rumors. Nelson, April 23. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at Wakefield on the body of Mr Melville Selon, who was a runholder. and well known a few years since as a crack cricketer. The yerdict was that he died from apoplexy. It was said that deceased, whilst riding home from Wabefield on the night on toe 21st was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and that he died by the roadside, where he was found breathing his last.