TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1386, 11 April 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. ) Napier, 10. A man named Thomas Neelgate, was found on the Clive road yesterday at 6 p.m., having been pitched from his horse. l e was carried home and died at 9 o clock. He had been seen at 5 in the afternoon in a state of intoxication. Dunedin, 10. The Herald to-day has the following. " Some unpleasant rumors were afloat yesterday relative to a large business house in this city It is currently reported that an investigation into the working of the establishment referred to is likely to lead to strange revelations in connection with commercial matters." Auckland, 10. Pia Ipi, a Native chief, fell into a boiling spring at Ohinemutu on Sunday, and was dreadfully scalded, and has since died, Ohristchurch, 9. A requisition has been preseuted to Hon. Mr Richardson, asking him to stand for Kaiapoi. It has been largely signed. It is reported that Mr Alfred Saun-* ders will oppose Mr Richardson. An attempt is tv be made to work the deposits of green carbonate of copper, discovered by Ford and Partridge in the Malvern district. An analysis shows there is a sufficient quantity of the metal to make it profitable, and .". company is to be formed, under the title of the .Malvern and Cor.nish Copper Mining Company. Wellington, 10. • Ejght hundred Volunteers, including about three hundred from Wanganui, and the country districts, are going to camp at Island Bay to-night. After the hearing of a case in the Magistrate's Court to*day — Harris v-

Gleii, a claim for £20, on a dishonored promissory note, in which judgment was given for plaintiff, his -Woi-ship directed the prosecution of the defendant The defence to the action was that the signature to the bill was a forgery, and it is believed that the evidence of experts will prove that the signature is genuine. The applications received for passages to England by the New Zealand Company's steamer Tongariro have been so numerous that the directors have been obliged to reserve some of the cabins on the port side of the second saloon for chief saloon passengers, who will be charged at a somewhat reduced rate for them.