YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 911, 26 May 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE. PER FBE3S AGENCY.]

AUSTRALIAN.

Arrival of the Suez Mail at Melbourne Sydney, May 25. The steamer Eingarooma, with the Suez mail, leaves Melbourne on Monday. The month's exports from England for New Zealand amounted in value to over £194,000. Hennessy's brandy, in case, 32s ; kerosene, 2s 5d ; rice, £lB to £22. Adelaide Hour and wheat, New Zealand wheat and oats, tobacco and sugar are unchanged. Sperm candles, 9sd.

INTERPEOVINCIAL.

[Per Press Auenov.] Wellington, May 25.

In to-night's Gazett.i it, is notified that the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Tiinaru is to be extended to £SO, after the Ist, June.

Dfnkdin. May 25

The inquest on Margaret Mclntyre was resumed to-day. Dr. Bakewell stated that her death had resulted, first, from long continued want of pi'oper food ; secondly, from injuries received a few days before death; thirdly, from congestion of the lungs and inflammation of the bowels; fourthly, from alcohol having been administered in large doses twenty-four hours before death. His opinion was that, had medical assistance been called in sufficient time the life of the girl might have been saved. There are still ten witnesses to examine.

[I'KOM CORRESPONDENTS 01? THE PRESS.]

Fatal Accident at Timaru. Timahu, May 25

The young man Wallace, who was injured yesterday at the firing, died this morning. An inquest was held this afternoon, when a verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned.

The Suspicious Death in Dunedin. DtTNEDIx, May 25.

James Eedpath was killed in his claim at the Sandhills, Shotovor, on Saturday, by a stone falling on the back of his neck whilst he was in a stooping position. At Clinton, while her mother went to collect firewood, a little girl named Hall fell into the fire by overbalancing herself, and before her parents could rescue her she was burnt from her head to her knees, and only lived a few hours.

At the inquest regarding the death of Margaret Mclntyre, Mrs John Stephenson deposed to having heard the deceased screaming very much on G-ood Friday morning. Later in the day she saw that the girl walked lame. There were continually noises and screams frem Mrs Reid's house. Dr Balcewell, who also attended the post mortem examination, said —I consider that the want of food was the primary cause of death. I came to that opinion after very carefully considering the case. Inflammation and congestion in this case resulted from her being subjected to privations. In the first instance the emaciation was undoubtedly the result of the want of proper or sufficient food. The injuries were sufficient to have hastened death very seriously. The bruises were not produced by any sharp instrument. They might have been produced by blows or by her having been thrown down, li' the girl was a lunatic, of suicidal tendencies, the injuries might have been produced by her throwing herself about. By falling down in a fit she might have self-produced some of the bruises, but it would have been impossible to have so produced one on the top of the head. He never saw scratches like these, and could not form any idea as to how they were caused, unless by rats. The abrasions appeared to have been caused by finger nails. [The Coroner here read over that portion of Mrs Reid's evidence in which she stated that the deceased fell down frequently in fits and caused bruises over her forehead by striking her head against the sharp edge of a teak box.] I know of no such fit, and do not think that such bruise could be caused by falling against a sharp edge. If site had been in want of food she would have suffered from giddiness. If medical assistance had been called in four days previously, her life might have been saved. This lie asserted positively, if the girl had had strength enough to get up unaided she would have strength enough to protect her from falling. Mrs Harris, another neighbor, said she heard frequent groans proceeding from Mrs Reid's as though a grown up person, a woman, was being thrashed and gagged. Frances Scannell, Mrs Stephenson's nurscgirl, saw the deceased crying on G-ood Friday, and heard her say her leg was hurt. Mrs Reid's daughter came out and said—- " Where did she strike you?" but the witness could not hear her reply. A few minutes afterwards the former came out and gave the deceased some bread. The incpiest is nqt likely to terminate to-night. The coroner explained that, it was not his intention to reject the girl Esplin's evidence.