TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1185, 27 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent.)

CmtiSTCHURCii. September 25.

A shock of earthquake is said to have been felt in the Springfield (Malvorn) district this morning. A woman died in the Malvern district in child-bed, on >atu relay night. I 'oath is said to have been hastened by brutality on the part of the husband, and ignorance of the person who attended her. An enquiry is to be held.

After all the trouble and money spent in the search for the missing lad, it appears that instead of being lost, lie only bolted. To-day a telegram wa^ received from the polipe station at

Hokitika stating that he was there under an assumed name, and got a billet.

T unedi*-, September 25,

Mr Massey, late town clerk, has accepted the offer of the City Council (first made to him seven months ago) of the sum of £27(5 in full of demands. This is a matter which has been several times before, the Court.

'1 he Secretary of the Canterbury Rugby Union (Mr Le.whi) has been endeavoring to arrango a return match between the Christduireli and Sydney teams, but the >ydney men cannot accede to the request, us they have to play Wellington on Vridny, Kapieroii Saturday, and Auckland on Tuesday.

Auckland, 25.

The Harbor Board have received a cablegram stating that the 'I arbor Boat d debentures, supposed to be in the Alaska's mail, were found all safe.

The l ' arbor Board has also received a letter from the directorate of the Sydney Sugar Company, announcing that Mr Firth lias been invested with a power of attorney authorising him to acton behalf of the company in all matters connected with the establishment of a sugar refinery in Auckland, and in the lease of the harbor frontage sections re-

quired,

A young man named Jas. Garrick, met with a sovnre accident at Reid and Gray's foundry to-day. I'c was putting a lx>lt on a pulley, when his wrist was caught and lie was dragged round the .shaft. When extricated, it was found His right arm and leg wore broken. Subsequently at the Hospital his right leg was amputated.

A fire broke out in the. residence of Mr F. Whitakcr M. 11. R, at Hamilton, and was no sooner suppressed in one • place than it broke out in several other places. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary. The police a'-e investigating. Catherine Kelly, while sleeping ofT a drinking bout at Kumeu bridge, was struck by the cow-catcher of the down Kaipara train, and making a somersault to the bottom of the gully, escaped with laceration of the face and arms. Nflsov, September 25. A remarkablo robbery has come to light, but where it was committed is a mystery. • n Friday night last, Messrs Lighthand and Co., of this city, received ex steamer Ulendower, *nine cases of the best class of English boots. They paid for and took delivery, but on opening out, found that no less than 97 pairs of the most expensive had been abstracted, and the trunks filled up with English coal. Wellington, .^eptember 26.

The return match between Sydney and Wellington is to be played on Friday, at 2 o'clock.