TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1035, 30 August 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

♦ [PBE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A Scene in Court. Auckland, To-day. A scene occurred in the Police Court to-day. A rather notorious woman, named Anne "Vesy, was charged with using abusive language, and while the principal witness, a woman, was giving evidence the prisoner drew a saucer from the folds of her dress and struck the witness twice violently on the head, covering her witsT blood. The Court sentenced the prisoner to two months. Shipping News. Arrived—J. O. Smith, from Boston. The ship Dunedin, from London, has passed Cape Saunders. Alleged Child Murder. Haweka, To-day. , Josephine Green was yesterday brought , up and remanded on a charge of child murder. The Rev Mr Williams, Wesleyan minister, to whom the girl said she had < given the child, deposed that he had only . spoken to her once. He knew nothing | of the child. A baby’s dress and flannels much soiled were found in a hedge down in a gully near here. Mrs Hughes, the ■ midwife, said she made the flannels, and ! the child was wearing them whan the mother took her away. The theory of the ' defence is that the child was given to 1 George Williams, a married man, and the I father of the child. He is supposed to be t living at the Forty-mile Bush. Every 1 effort is to be made to discover him, and I a special man is to be sent to trace him. ■ Suicide. Opdnake, To-day. 1 William Clark, hotelkeeper, late of Wellington, andformerly of Blenheim and Picton, shot himself through the heart this k morning. He had agreed last night wiih Middelton Bros., from whom he purchased the hotel five months ago, to give back possession. An agreement was drawn up to that effect, and Clark appeared in good spirits this morning, and was working in the storeroom. Whilst one of,the men helping him went to fetch a tomahawk he •hot himself through the heart. The Tidal Wave. Wellington, To-day. Captain Edwin received the following telegramsthismorning:—From Mongonui; •—•‘Disturbances still continue. Water much discolored from Coromandel ; ** No sign of tidal wave.” There was also * no sign of disturbance at the Thames, Tavanga, and Castle Point. A Home Vessel. Arrived—Wave Queen, barque, Oapt. . Kelly (102 days), from London. All well. The Cause of the Wave. At a meeung of the Philosophical Society Dr Hector gave it as his opinion ' I that the tidal wave which visited the New 1 . Zealand coast yesterday was caused by a volcanic eruption which had been experienced in the neighborhood of the Straits . of Sunda. He said the island of Suuda was renowned for the severity of its ’ eruptions. In 1772 a track of country fifteen miles long and six broad was swallowed np, 3,000 persons losing their lives This was followed in 1815 by another severe shock, when 7,000 lives were lost. The noise of the eruption was heard thousands of miles away. The Otago Harbor-master. Dunedin, To-day. Captain Macullum, the present deputy. Is likely to receive the appointment of Harbor-master.