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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2672, 9 September 1871, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from greville’s telegram company, eeuter’s agents.) Christchurch, Sept 9. An elderly woman, named Gimshaw, committed suicide in a fit of despondency. A meeting has been called in support of Mr Macandrew’s Middle Island resolutions. Auckland, The Joshua Bates, with 286 Chinamen for Dunedin, put in in a leaky condition. The Chinamen have the scurvy. They have been placed on Motiutn Island for a few days, and are then to proceed to their destination. Two died in the harbor, and three before arrival. Caledonians declared dividend L 3 j Nonpareil, Bs. The schooner Rifleman, for the, Chatham Islands, was wrecked in Blind Bay, on the Great Barrier’. All hands saved. The ketch Eagle lost a seaman named George Russell during a gale. Clarke Bros, report Caledonians at L 145 ; Thames, L 27 10s ; Tookey, L.34 ; Nonpareil, L 5 ss; Moanatieri, LI 15s ; Otago, L 5 2s Gd; Central Italy, L2 ss. The wife of Wm. Backhand, M.H.R., died suddenly on the Ith. An inquest is now sitting. Port Chalmers, Sept. 9. Great indignation is felt at tire manner in which the body of the seaman who was killed on Thursday last through- falling from the maintopsailyard of the ship Shun Lee was interred to-day. No person was following the dray which conveyed the remains to j;o the grave, and no funeral service being performed,