TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1232, 12 February 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent.) • DUNEDIN, p. Mr Alfred Austin has accepted on behalf of young Scott the challenge of Daniel O'Leary to walk any man in the Austji-aljah Colonies. The great Amei-icaii pedestrian lias recently arr rived in Melbourne, and Mr Austin, has' just written to him" backing $cott to wallT-h^or* 24 hours match for £100 or £200 a side.^ . The match to take piace in Dunedin. Mr Ramsay > the shipping, agent, . has received the following from Fortrose : — '•Pioneer, schooner, struck the bar and drifted on the rocks at Easthead. A heavy sea is breaking, and .slie is likely to become a total wreck. The crew. are landed safely." A later. telegram states that the Pioneer has become a total wreck. She was insured in'- the New Zealand office for £100.'; < ■ .^. \ Christchurch, 10. Last nlgflit'dfCustom's officer and a detecti^l^ed a number of gold watchesrc^lns and jewelbry on which duty lia'df-f not been paid. They were Concealed in a house in Bingsland, a. suburb of Christchurch, occupied by a new arrival from England. . Auckland; 9. At the /inquest on the bodies of Geo. White and Mary O'Reilly, who were burntrto death at the Wakefield,street fire, a- verdict .of accidental death was returued ' x It came out in ths 'evidence 5 that the' woman had; been, enticed away frohi her husband in' Melbourne b^ a, man in. Auckland and her husbands .name is Hodge. . The supposed cause, .of the fire is a defectively constructed 'hearth. '''" *••' Wellington, 10. The books of the Government Insurance Department for the nine month's ending December last show the following' gratifying results. No fewer than 9320 policies have been issued in bpfh branches during the period referred; to, assuring £779,650, being in excess of the total new business transacted during any preceding financial period of twelve month's duration.. The new business ] has thus been more' than doubled in the last 'six months! The renewal business also shows a most satisfactory increase, thus improving the permanent nature of the business generally. The Mayor and Councillors visited to-day the Japanese man-of-war, the Rugai, now i 4 port, to welcome the officers to Nejw Zealand, this being their- first port of call since leaving Japan. ....:. : This city had a very narrow escape from another terrible fire this morning, but a brick building to leeward of the store, where the' outbreak occurred, prevented the fire from spreading. Two shops were burnt to the ground. ••>..