PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 3043, 4 August 1886, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

'UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION'.! Auckland, August 2. Cotton, the missing Rotorua tourist, was found by Mi Dansey, on Saturday night wandering about near Horohoro telegraphist. He was in a dazed condition; but apparently has not suffered much from exposure. Richard Moore, a retired merchant, nearly 70 years <>f age, was f'tund dead in his house at North Shore yesterday morning, sitting on a chair with a gun bet ween his knees. Apparently the gun had been fired into his mouth, as a large wound was on the back of his neck, but strange to say the weapon was on full cock. The housekeeper says she heard a shot fired, and on going up to his room found Moore sitting "•wit.li a gun, and gave an alarm. Deceased has been in low spirits for some time. Four years ago he shot himself with a pistol, inflating two wounds, but recovered. The Rapid, for Cambridge Gulf, has 36 passengers on her books as s crew, thus evading the Passenger Act. In the divorce esse Lambert v Lambert Judge Gillies considered the wife's adultery proved, and granted a decree nisi. In the afternoon, at a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery, Alexander Thomson, of East Tamaki, an elder, was seized with a fit of apoplexy and died in two minutes. The Presbytery at once adjourned. Deceased's golden wedding was celebrated a week or two ago. At the inquest on the body of Moore, late of North Shore, the verdict was " suicide while of unsound mind." The deceased was a Freethinker, and separated from his wife on that account. Christchurch, August 3. A case of alleged ill treatment by a pupil teacher is reported from North Canterbury. A girl 10 years old, daughter of Mr J. Bird, of Rangiora Swamp, was brought to the township to-day suffering from two large aud deep-seated abscesses on the leg, caused, the father alleges, from a blow given by a pupil teacher at the school she has been attending. Wellington, August 3. The negotiations between the Government and the Cable Company for a reduction of rates on the New Zealand cable have They have been going on for the last twelve months, and it was understood that Government were endeavoring to get both ordinary and press rates reduced at the same time that the charges from Europe to Australia were lowered. The latter have been reduced for press messages from 6s od to 2s 8d per word, but no corresponding charge has been made on the New Zealand cable. The company ask for a subsidy for ten years instead of five, but Government has finally concluded to do nothing at all in the matter, and leave the company to act as they please. In those circumstances the prospect is that instead of the public and press of New Zealand being enabled to share in the great reductions allowed to Australia, the present rates will lie raised instead of being lowered. Napier, August 3. Sergeant Fox committed suicide this morning by swallowing half a pint of cubolic acid. Deceased had been drinking heavily lately, and went home early in a state of intoxication. Fox had been a sergeant in the 14th Regiment, and was decorated with the Crimean, Turkish, and New Zealand medals. Retiring from the service, he was drill instructor to the Volunteers. He leaves a widow and a large grownup family.