LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 595, 24 August 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Wellington, August 23. The Public Works Statement will, in all probability, be delivered on. Tuesday next. The Government will telegraph it to all newspapers. Mr Barft" has given notice in the Assembly that he will move for »n enquiry into the working of Jackson's Bay Settlement. Foxton, August 23. At the coroner's inquest to-day on the body of Mrs Richaid Taylor, who jumped overboard from the steamer Jane Douglas, a verdict of manslaughter against the nurse and purser of the steamer, who had been sworn in as special constables, was returned. Ahaura, August 23.

Three valuable horses we: e drowned in endeavoring to cross the junction of the Grey River. The driver, Geor»e Page, a very steady man, had to swim ashore, and with difficulty escaped. He is now confined to bed. He had got over the first crossing of the Grey River, but on reaching the second ford he found it too high, and tried to return, when the enrreut swept horses ami dray down the stream, and the dray was lost. Mr Alcorn, the proprietor of the horses and dray, estimates his loss at <£l2o. Page was engaged drawing timber for the Grey junction bridge, for the erection of which tenders were recently accepted by the Government. The Grey ford is always dangerous with the least fresh. Dunedin, August 23. Mrs Cowan, who on Sunday last cut her throat at Maori Hill with a knife, died in the 1 ospital yesterday. A person named Robert Bennie, released some time ago from the Lunatic Asylum, aud sinco been living in the city with his'family, became possessed of an idea that it was his dutv' to nut the throat of one of his children, and for that purpose procured a razor, but instead of currying the extraordinary idea hi to effect, he voluntarily proceeded as quickly as possible to the Lunatic Asylum, ami with the razor in his hand, demanded admittance. He was detained until the arrival of the police, who conveyed him to the lockup, and after medical evidence' he was committed to his old quarters in the Asylum. LATEST UNPUBLISHED. Dunedin, Augnst 4. The Under-Secretary, has written to the Chamber of Commerce that the Government cannot support the pro* posal of the Chamber, that all bankruptcy notices should be published in the Mercantile Gazette of New Zealand. The Andersons Bay School Committee have decided to bring into force the compulsory clause of the Education Act.

The last rail connecting Dunedin with Christchurch will be laid at 12.30 on Monday.