TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1186, 23 October 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦ (from our owx correspondent.) Chkistciiurch, October 20. Among the many rumors prevalent in town with regard to the doings of the absconder Hepton, is one that he was seen at Amberly a few days ago. t is also stated on good authority, that a person called at Leech and Leaths stables on Sunday evening and took out a buggy saying MrHempton would pay for it, and that he was going for a short drive, the buggy was not brought back till Monday morning. Another report of a more sensational nature is that Hempton was known to have a packet of prussic acid with him on his flight. Hempton the forger was arrested last night at Springfield, he was charged before the KM. here this morning and remanded. At a meeting of the Board of Health today, the medical officers reports showed there had been 7 cases of scarlet fever, and ten of measles, during the three months ending September. It was resolved to ask the Government what steps have been taken with respect to enforced vaccination in schools, and to carry out an inspection, with a view to ascertain what, children are now unvaccinated. It is proposed .to form a League, among the public bodies in north Can-

terbury, to agitato for the construction of the West Coast railway. The Synod yesterday passed a resolu- . j tion favorable to froe sittings in churches whereever practicable. ' The young ladies club, which now | numbers IGO menibei s, will open a new hall in Hereford street on Monday noxt, Auckland, October 20, "./• Seven war canoes hayo already entered for the race at the Dovonport regatta. Duxedin, October 20. A store and dwelling belonging to Mr George Bell, postman at Inch Clutha has been burned down, it was insured in the Colonial office foi £900, the losa , is estimated at £150 over the insurance, A chemist at Oamaru who has been staying at the Bluff mill hearth, disj appeared on Sunday last, all efforts to trace him since have been a failure, he shewed signs of a weakened intellec and it is presumed he has committed suicide, as he attempted to drown him. self last week. Wellington, October 21. Tho prisoners Worth, and Davios, were released from gaol yesterday evening, In the list of last week's insolvencies is that of Robert Walker, late of tho Casino, and Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Hokitika, AUCKLAND; 21. A charge of murder, under somewhat similar circumstances to those attending the crime for which Captain Jarvey, of the steamer .Titina, was hung in Dunedin many years ago, has caused considerable excitement hero during the last few days. The informant in this case, as in the Jarvey case, is a step-daughter of the accused j the girl alleges that during her mother's illness, and on the day preceding her I death, she saw her father leaning over her mother's bed feeding the sick ! woman with an egg, and holding in hia ■ other hand a bottle containing arsenic, • which the informant herself had purchased in London for her father, befor sailing for this Colony. The girl, whose name is Amy Hedge, says that on seeing the arsenic bottle she cried out to her mother " Don't eat that, mother, or else you will be dead." Tho woman died next day, and a doctor who was called in at the last moment gave a certificate of death from apoplexy. The occurrence dates sixteen 'months 1 back, but the body has been exhumed and the stomach forwarded, to Wellington for analysis, Hedges in the meantime bring allowed at large.