TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1125, 8 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FHOJr OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT.) DUXEDIN, 6. The prospectus is out of a new insurance company having its headquarters here, and to be called the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand. It will eventually include life business and fire business, winch will I be confined to the Colony. It will also include the issue of bonus as well as ordinary policies, the bonus being i divided after 10 percent has been paid to shareholders. Napier, 6. A case of attempted suicide from unrequitted love took place at Waipukurau on Saturday evening last A man named Hammond employed as a gardner at Mount Herbert, was found dangerously ill. Upon being questioned as to the cause of his illness, he stated that he taken a dose of arsenic with a view to " end his days." He was removed to the County Hospital, and prompt remedies applied, but he is still in a very precarious condition. Two packages labelled poison, one containing strychnine, and the other arsenic were found in his box, also a will in which he directed that his goods should be sold, and the proceeds handed over to his fickle lady love. Christchurch, September G. The subscriptions received here for the persecuted Jews amount to £400. It will be remembered that some months ago a daring and inexplicable robbery of a safe and its contents, occurred at the Black Horse Hotel, in which the notorious Longmore was supposed to have had a hand. The safe could never be found despite all search, but one was found in a ditch to-day, on the Cashmere estate, which is supposed to be the missing one. The ditch was full of water all the winter, but it is now dry. The contents were all gone of course. There was not a single voter to-day at the poll in the Coleridge licensing district on the local option question. The returning officer, however, was equal to the occasion, and gave his vote against the increase of licenses. The Cust disdistrict, where only one man voted, is now cast into the shade. Du.veoi.n:, September 0. Tho R.M. to-day gave judgment against a waggoner who claimed the value of a horse which had been destroyed as the result of injuries received through taking fright at a steam tram engine, Holding that the engine was of a class called "noiseless," and was lawfully upon the highway.

At the Land Board to-day a licenses i to prospect^ for minurals was granted on six square miles at Doubtful Sound, "West Coast. TUc Cromwell Company last ' week crushed 70 tons, yielding 158oz. of amalgam. A 400(>7.. cako for tho month is : ox pouted. • N AI'OKLANH, 8. THo Sydney foot-ballers arrived yustorday.