LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 115, 9 February 1881, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[>B* PHBBB ABBOCIATION.] THE AUSTRALIAN ORIOKETERB. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The cricket match was finished today. The -Wellington second innings closed for 68 runs, thus losing the match hy one innings and 21 runs. The Australians left for Nelson at 5.30 this erening. DTJNEDIN. TtTESDAY. A fatal accident happened at Waikata on Thursday, 'by which a daughter of Mr S. Mclntosh, aged 18, was thrown from her horse- Her foot caught m the stirrup, arid she was dragged a considerable distance. She died an hour afterwards from concussion of the brain. In the Supreme Court to-day Judge Johnston and Judge Williams ruled that a trustee m a bankrupt Estate wa* personally responsible for the cost m suing or being sued as trustees. Wkdxbbday. Adolph Montzo, late clerk to the Standard Insurance, Company, has been committed for trial on several charges of embezzlement. CH&ISTOHURCH. Thtxksdat. Ahpuse „ was .bumt_to the ground at Sydenham this morning. The building was insured m the Sun office for £160. ■'■/,* On June the 4th last, a son of Dr House, of LytteHon. m getting off a tram car fell, and hisleg was broken by the carriage wheel. His father sued the Company yesterday for £200 damages. The evidence for piaiutiff swore that the' guard told the boy to jump off while the train was m motion.^ This the guard denied. The engine driver's evidence as to the train stopping was contradicted. Judgaient was giv«*n for the plaintiff for £100. The boy has been laid up .for three months, and states that hit memory is affected by the accident,