TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1317, 31 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

+ (from our own correspondent. ) Invercargill, 29. ; Iv the District Court to-day Judge Ward assented to an application that he would state a case for the Supreme. , Court in McLeod v. New River Harbor Board, iv which the plaintiff recovered £200 damages for injuries sustained by his vessel, the Edith Reid, through stranding at the berth where she had been placed 'by the lessees of the jetty., Dunedin, 29. A violent hurricane passed over the interior of Otago in the early hours this morning. At Clyde several old houses were levelled, and a number of roofs were blown off. Trees were torn up by the roots, and gardens completely wrecked. The injury to buildings alone in Clyde is estimated at £500. The telegraph wires between Clyde and Cromwell were carried away by falling trees, but were quickly restored. Cromwell also suffered damage from the storm. A serious accident occurred at Portabello' yesterday, when a bull attacked a boy named Frances. The lad's mother very courageously came to his assistance, and succeeded in diverting the animal's attention from him, but unfortunately towards herself. The result was two of her ribs were broken, and two teeth knocked out by the brute. There are 200 men of the urtem. ployed at work on the Otago Central Railway,

A t the inquest to-night on the child of John Whitely, found dead in ded, the evidence showed that the mother and father had both been drunk on Sunday afternoon. The death of the ; child had been caused by suffocation, j either through the mother overlying , the child or in some way heaping the clothes over it.' A verdict of manslaughter was returned against the mother, and the father was seriously reprimanded by the Coroner and jury. Mr Denniston, the plaintiff in the recent libel action, has abandoned his intention of moving for a new trial. Christchurch, 29. Edwards has* been challenged by O'Connor, of Timaru, to walk from one to twenty-five miles for £50. An old man was arrested by the police on Saturday helplessly drunk, and on being searched was found to have £109 in bank notes in his possession. Auckland, 29. ' The Helensville Timber Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent., and earned a good balance forward. Nothing has as yet transpired as to the appointment of an Auckland member to the Cabinet Major Atkinson had an interview K and alsoji qpayer- j sation witfi A itekland members. Sydney Tawanga has left for Russells, to be present at a Native meeting to be held to-morrow, when he will give an account of his mission to the King Country. According to his statements he has been eminently successful in bringing the King Natives round to his viewa At the northern native meeting four delegates will be appointed to collect subscriptions for a Maori embassy to England, and also to procure signatures to a Native petition to be taken Home for presentation to the Imperial authorities. It is not Sydney's intention to go Home till after the next general elections, when he hopes to blossom forth as an M.H.R. Punedin, 30. While playing at Tapanui at snapdragon, sis children were seriously burnt. Three of them are now in a serious state.