OTAGO.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 23, 1 July 1871, Page 8

OTAGO.

[Feom the Times.] The arrival of the ship Wild Deer, from Glasgow, possesses more than usual interest for the people of this province, inasmuch as among her passengers are three of the Professors of the Otago University, viz., Mr G. S. Sale, Professor of Classics and the English Language and Literature ; Mr J. Shand, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ; and Dr Duncan M'Gregor, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. We are sure our readers will join us in wishing them a welcome to their new field of labour.

One of the Maori prisoners, named Tamilian a, aged 60, died in the hospital at four o'clock yesterday morning of paralysis of the right side, scrofula, and asthma. He had been in hospital since the 2nd December last. An inquest was held at the hospital at noon yesterday by Dr Hocken, coroner, and a respectable jury. After hearing the evidence of Mr Caldwell, governor of the gaol, and Dr Yates, resident surgeon, the jury returned a verdict of " death from natural causes." The deceased belonged to the Wesley an denomination, and was a member of the Ngatiranui tribe. He was a widower, and leaves two daughters in the Patea district. He was universally respected by the whole of the hapu, and all the officers of the gaol. Rihare Watone Ngawakataurua, the chief, attended at the Hospital morgue last evening, and celebrated the service for the dead in a very impressive and affecting manner, and afterwards held a tangi over the remains of the deceased. Before leaving, they visited the sick Maoris at present in hospital. The charge preferred against Agnes M'Donald of havingmaliciously wounded her husband, William M'Donald, a seetler at Maungatua, on Saturday morning last, was brought under the notice of Mr Strode, R.M., at the Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday. Since the accused was remanded by Mr Fulton, R.M., the depositions of her husband had been taken. He therein explains that the hay fork which entered his side and caused a wound through which his lungs protruded, was not thrown at him by his wife with a criminal intention. He states that he asked her to pass the fork, and that she then threw it towards the spot where he stood, but that the wound was accidentally and not intentionally inflicted*