YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 979, 15 August 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable, per press agency.] AUSTRALIAN. [Per Rotorua, via Auckland. | Melbourne, August 8. Mr J. K. Emmet, the comedian, who threw himself into the sea from G-lenelg Jetty, denies having attempted suicide, and says he only wanted to bathe. The grave charge lias been made against Dr. Beany, the senior surgeon of Melbourne Hospital, that he admitted non-professional witnesses to see delicate operations performed on a woman placed under chloroform. The Victorian G ovemment intends to invite the neighboring colonies to co-operate in enacting legislation against runaway husbands. ___ INTERPEOVINCIAL. [per press agency.] Total Wreck of a Barque. Suspicious Death at Auckland. The Football Team at Taranaki. The Judges and Y/ellington Lawyers. Otago TTirivers ty Museum. Auckland, August 14. A committee arc preparing a memorial in support of the demand made by southern artizans that the Government should support local industries. Mr Cross, husband of Mrs Cross, who died from mysterious poisoning three months ago, is missing. His hat and stick were found close 'o the bank of the Tamaki river. He is supposed to have committed suicide through remorse for his bad treatment of his wife. Alfred Durham has been missing since Tuesday. His wife received a letter saying by the time she received it he would have blown his drains out. Durham was in difficulties and drinking hard. The police are investigating the circumstances. New Plymouth, August 14. Tie Dunedin football team landed but refused to play. The Taranaki team having made every preparation for the match, and plajers having come from Patea, Hawera, Wa:tai, and In»lewood, to take part, on hearing the determination of the Dunedin players, expressed themselves in no complimentary terns. One gentleman offered to back the Taranaki side for £SO for two hours' play, but Dunedin refused. A dinner had been arranged, b\it the Taranakites abandoned the whole affair. There was considerable excitement. Marton, August 14. The barque Robina Dunlop, bound to Batavia, from Wellington, is a total wreck off the mouth of the Turakina river. The crew, numbering fourteen, were saved. Napier, August 14 A somewhat extraordinary charge of drunkenness was disposed of at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day. Mr Frank Windsor, a highly respectable man, remark - able for 'his good conduct and sobriety, employed as clerk in the Napier Railway Department, went last Thursday evening to the lock-up (immediately after he had left his office) to try and bail out his son, a composite]' in the ''Wananga" office, who had been locked up drunk. Mr Windsor was accompanied by Mr Hill, the publisher of the " Wananga." Serjeant Jlobinson told Windsor that his son was too drunk to be bailed out. Alter turning away Windsor knocked again and asked to see his son. The sergeant walked towards a cell and opened the door. Windsor, thinking that his sou was there, walked towards'the celland was immediately thrust ill unci the door was locked upon him. Hill ''an a-iray thinking he too might be locked up, but li3 went in quest of the Inspector and told him of it. The Inspector went to the lockup, but, accepting the sergeant's assertion that My Windsor was drunk, did not look at him,

and he remained there all night. To-day Hill and a number of witnesses gave evidence that Mr "Windsor was perfectly sober, and' he was discharged. The Bench expressed the opinion that more discretion should have been shown by the police. Wellington, August 14. Advantage will be taken of the Supreme Court Judges sitting in banco to-morrow when all the members of the legal profession will assemble and formally disclaim any participation or sympathy with the action now being taken by Mr Barton against their Honors the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Richmond. Senior Constable Green has returned from Sydney, whither he had been sent to identify a man apprehended by the Sydney police on suspicion that he was Cunningham, accused of the Ohau murder. G-reen says the man is not Cunningham. Dunedin, August 14. At a meeting of the University Council this afternoon Professor Hutton wrote asking the council to protect him from remarks made by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Stuart, last Sunday, in reference to opening the Museum on that day. The Vice-Chancellor regarded the Professor's letter as a piece of impertinence, and maintained that he was at liberty to say what he pleased in the pulpit in reference to the matter. It was decided that the letter be replied to, stating that Dr. Stuart, when making the remarks complained of, did not do so in his capacity as Vice-Chancellor. Designs for new University buildings were considered, and first and second premiums wci'e respectively awarded to Messrs Bury and Brindley and Somerville, Duncdin. Tenders will shortly be wanted for erection of buildings, in accordanca with the design approved of. Several men who were provided with free passes for works at Balclutha have tramped back to town. Others are going about the township idle, refusing to accept the wages offered to them. Mr Blair, District Engineer, concludes his report on the railway routes as follows :—" If it is the intention of the Government to take steps towards constructing a railway into the interior of Otago, I have no hesitation in Strathtaieri line as emphatically the shortest and easiest route, that will in its course open up most good country for settlement. I may also add that I believe there is every chance of a railway in this direction being directly remunerative in a very short time." A meeting of Licensed Victuallers and others will be held to-night to consider the Local Option Bill. Balclutha, August 14. _ At a meeting of the Clutha County Council held to-day, a resolution was passed, urging upon the Government to form the first six miles of a railway from Balclutha to Catlin's River ; also a railway between Main Southern trunk and Tapanui.