TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1186, 29 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our^own correspondent.)

Masterton, September 28.

A dastardly attempt was made to blow up a buggy belonging to the Hey. L. Isitt, on Tuesday night a bottle of gunpowder was put in the box of the buggy, iij a shed at the rear of the house, and a piece of lighted candle fixed in it. The bottle was smashed and the buggy damaged, The explosion was heard by the occupants" of the house, who attributed the noise to the heavy storm.

Chkistchurch, September 27.

Dr Burroughs, another well known resident of angiora died, making three within a few days.

A person named John Young, who was convicted at the last criminal sittings of indecent assault, and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with twenty lashes, has gone mad, and will be removed to the lunatic asylum.

The criminal calendar at present only contains eight cases, one of which really remains over from last session. Isett, Editor of a paper called Society, has brought an action against Crocker, the draper, who horsewhipped him the other day, for £21 Is damages. The cause of the assault was a paragraph referring to defendants millinery establishment, whioh plaintiff denied it referred to at all, but which the evidence showed could not relate to any other, Both parties claim to have the best of the encounter. His W orship considered that the assault would be atoned for by a fine of L 5 and costs L 3 1 9s. The last vestige of the Exhibition has been removed, and the plough is now at work getting the Park into decent order again. Libeller has been scratched for the C.J.G Handicap. A settler named Leashman fell between the railway platform at Winchester station, and got terribly crushed to-day. Dunedim, 27. There are at present no fewer than eight West Coast boys, four of them holding scholarships, attending the l-unedin High School. A boy from Greymouth, named Win. Williams, was to-day presented with the Watkin's gold medal, won by him at the Greymouth public school- The donor of the medal was the late Rev. Mr Watkins, of Trinity Church, Greymouth. Auckland, 28. A meeting of ladies was held to-day, 200 being present, to protest against the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act Thirty-three

petitions are in circulation, and are being extensively signed ; a meeting of clergy to consider the question has been convened for to-morrow.

The directors of the Mutual Insurance Company have decided to limit the present issue of shares to £100,000, and to commence business next week.

The Cambridge Land Court has commenced its sitting, and an enormous tract of land will be brought into Court, amounting to 700,000 acres.

Wellington, 28,

' The return foot-ball match between the Sydney and local teem will be played to-morrow.

Kumara, 28,

George Mansfield, miner, yesterday slipped into the sludge channel and was washed out to the mouth, a distance of 3300 ft. He was immediately rescued from the drop, and taken to the hospital. He was muchcnt and bruised, but no bones are broken.