TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1141, 3 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(Per Press Association.). Wellington, This day. The Agent-General telegraphs the departure of the Northumberland with 160 immigrants, and the Rangitikei wdth 351, both for Auckland, At the inquest on the body of T^ G. Pickers, who hung himself on New Year's Day, the verdict was that deceased committed suicide -while suffering from temporary in* sanity. < 4 y° un _ man named Robert Broadbent, a draper's assistant," haa been arrested on a charge of larceny as a servant. , Napier, This day, A hotel at Wanstead was destroyed by fire yesterday, Insurancess— stock and furniture, '£3so ; Building £500 m the South British. Half of the latter is reinsured m the National. Wellington, this day. In consequence of scab between Wellington and Napier, the road be» tween these places has been closed, so far as conveyance of sheep is con* cerned. A deputation, consisting o£ Messrs Levin and Bucnanan, MH.B 's. waited on the Colonial Se» cretary asking that the road. .should onened under proper precautions. The sheep inspectors ol Masterton were however opposed to it under the very strictest possible precautions, and Mr Dick therefore refused to agree to the request. Hawera, Jan 2, John Burt"-, charged with setting fire to his brewery and makiig false representations to cefraud th.* insurance companies has been committed for tial. ■' * Wellington, Jan 2. Mr Counolly returned to Wellington last nigbt. The Secretary of Customs has favoured! us with the fo'lowing telegram received from .Mr Wilson of the. Mrrine Department* announcing the successful opening of tbo lighthouse on Waipapa Point : — '** Invercargill, Jan. 2,— Lighted up last nights everything right."