LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1744, 3 May 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.! CiiiirstcHUßctr, May 1. A nun named Hohert tfudson comm ttw] suicide nn Saturday evening at T\a apni bv stabbing himself in the arm in a number of places with a penknife. Hr iliafl from the wounds inflicted, and an inquest was held to-dav. After a quantity of evidence had been taken, which showed that deceased had been subject to drink, and had been several times committed for medical treatment, a verdict was returned that deceased came to his deaMi by his own hands while in a state of mental aberration. Dunedin, May 1. The Lyceum, the new public hall built by the Freethought Association in Dunedin, was opened yesterday. Mr Stout lectured in the evening on “ What

ia Freethought F” to an audience of 75d people, including many bodies. Tlnee entertainments in celebration of the opening are to be giVeri in the hall this week. Timaru, May 2. A child, five years old, a son of Capt. Mills, harbor-master, had both thighs broken on Saturday evening, by gettii g them between the spokes of a buggyi wheel while attempting to get into it. MastertOn, May 1. # -A-ri inquest On Ferminger* who was killed by a fall of a tree was held yesterday. A verdict of accidental death was returned with a rider added that the man was not a competent bush feller, and should not have been allowed to go out to fell biisli albne. The man-, however, has been in the colony 30 years* and bdsh felling 15 years. Wellington, May 2. The landlord of the Princess Hotel was to-day mulcted in a fine for Sunday trading. At the inquest on the ckarred rsmains of Smith, kis wife, and twd children yesterday* tlie jury returned an open verdict, A skull supposed to be Smith's Was found, but the wife’s skull is missing. Palmerston NoAth, May 2. Mr J. B. Dungan, proprietor of the Manawatu Times, died this morning. ~ . Auckland, May 2. Sydney Walwlianga* accompanied by a son of the famous Hongki, arid Parore, another chief, ledve by the Albion fuAustralia to-morrow, thCnCC go bv th< steamer Cotopaxi to England with A petition to the Queen concerning Native grievances. Parore’s grandfather pays expenses (£300) and takes meres and mats as presents to the QueCn. At a meeting of the Auckland Gad Company it Was decided to issue 5000 new shares at £5. The consumption of gas for the City is at the rate of fiftysix million of feet per annum.