TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1070, 5 April 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents.) Auckland, April 3. A man named Douglas was arrested yesterday for pounding John Moran on the head with a delf candlestick. Douglas quarrelled with his wife, and Moran received a blow intended for her. An artery of the head was severed, and Moran lost about a gallon of blood. April 4. The 'Frisco mail arrived to.day. Dunedin, March 31. The Acclimatiation Society here have been most unfortunate in two recent shipments of ova— one of Loch Leven trout, the other of salmon. The former were all dead on arrival, although the packing was good. The latter shipment, consisting of 130,000 from England, arrived by the John Elder on March 15th. On the Society's officer, sent from here, going on board, he found that the officers knew nothing of the ova, and was referred to the butcher. That individual showed him the ova in the cattle pen amongst the potatoes, coal baskets, ropes, dec., having been removed there from the ice house when the ice gave out The eggs were all dead on arrival at Port Chalmers. An interesting fact was also mentioned at the Society's meeting, that the New Zealand paradise duck had been sucessfully hatched out in : England. KumarAj April 4. The Parsonage of the Church of England was destroyed by fire this morning. The Rev. Mr Holland, wife, and servant, narrowly escaping with their lives.