The features were so much disfigured as to render identification impossible, but a tattoo mark on one arm proved the re mains to be those of M'Corkindale. The body was removed to the Morgue. An inquest will be held to-day at two o'clock, and the funeral will take place at four o'clock this afternoon, and the members of the Fire Brigades will attend to pay a mark of respect to their late comrade. We understand that the Rechabites propose to erect a hall in a central posi tion in the city, the means to be provided by issuing debentures to the amount of £1000, which will be gradually extin guished by the proceeds of entertain ments in the building. The Independent Order of Rechabites have written to His Honor the Superintendent requesting him to receive a deputation from that Order to urge upon his Honor the desir ability of granting a free site for the hall, and he has appointed Monday morning for the purpose. A case of very sudden death happened yesterday in Garrett-street, Te Aro. A Mrs Thomas, while cleaning her windows about nine o'clock in the morning was seized with an apoplectic fit, and there being no person about the house but herself her condition was not made known until about two hours afterwards, when she was found lying near the gate at the entrance to the house in a «>tate of insensibility. Dr Harding arrived soon after, but all aid was ineffectual, and Mrs Thomson expired at about eleven o'clock. Death having taken place in presence of a medioal man, and the cause being palpable, no inquest will be held. Thomas Hogg, a carter, was arrested by the police yesterday on suspicion of being an accomplice of John Vicary, who was taken up on the previous day charged with stealing a cask of tallow, the pro perty of Mr Gear, butcher. Yesterday afternoon an express, a cart, and Williams' parcel delivery van, got locked together on Lambton Quay, and the result was that Williams' vehicle was considerable damaged. The body was knocked off the fore wheels, and one shaft was broken. Fortunately none of the drivers were hurt. A narrow escape from serious confla gration happened last evening upon the premises of Mr Frankel, Lambton Quay. 