TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCT.) Auckland, Friday,

Mr. Henry Hardington, formerly a coach proprietor, met with an accident the other night at Penrose station, through dismounting from a train before it stopped. Ho was seriously hurt in the arm and hand. Mr. Hardington has complained to the authorities that the railway officers calling on the passengers to change train before the latter stopped, led to the accident.

At Mercury Bay a settler named Hoyle attempted to take away his life by talcing poison. He procured an ounce of arsenic at a chemist’s, and swallowed the half. He was making for a waterhole at the Tiki when he was first seen. Napier, Friday. At the inquest on the body of Miss Tatham this morning the verdict given was “ found drowned.” The projected Clive Grange estate and railway is withdrawn. The interim secretary, Mr. M. 11. Miller states, in announcing the withdrawal, that it has been decided by the provisional directors to relieve applicants for shares up to the present time from all responsi bility in respect of their applications, the withdrawal of the project having been arrived at after mature consideration, and with a view to protect the interests of all parties concerned during the present unfavorable condition of monetary affairs in the colony. Judgment for £B7 odd was given this morning in the Resident Magistrate's Court against Mr. John Sheehan, at the suit of the Bank of Australasia on a promissory note. Christchurch, Friday.

With regard to the telegram on commercial matters in Christchurch, which was hotly condemned at yesterday’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on the supposition that it had been sent by the Press Agency and published in the Dunedin Herald, it appears that the Chamber was altogether misinformed. Mr. Cass, who brought the matter forward, has admitted, on being shown a message appearing in the Otarjo Daily Times of April 23, from its Christchurch correspondent, that that was the offensive telegram to which he referred. The aspersions on the Press Agency and the Morntrey Herald were therefore utterly unjustifiable.

The body picked up in the Avon on Thursday has been identified by Mr. Stewart, pawnbroker, as being that of a laborer named King, who pawned a vest with him on the 13th of this month. King was last in the employ of Sir C’racroft Wilson. An inquest will be held to-morrow.

At a meeting of gentlemen to consider the advisability of urging on the Government the establishment of a school for deaf and dumb persona the following resolution was unanimously carried :—“ That this meeting is of opinion that an institution for deaf and dumb mutes should be established as soon as possible, and as a Government institution.” The chairman was authorised to communicate the resolution to the Government.

Jacob Vogt has been committed for trial for forging and uttering a promissory note. The body of the man found in the river is not yet identified. The inquest has been deferred till to-morrow at the request of the police, 10 p.m. Re the late drowning case it now appears that Stewart was wrong in supposing it to be a man named King who was drowned. The body has since been identified as that of John Goodwin, a farmer at Papanui, who left his home on Wednesday last. A person named Potts, who worked en the farm, came to town yesterday and recognised his late master. The clothes on the body were those Goodwin wore on leaving home. Tihabu, Friday. The inquest on the body of William Payne, who died from injuries received in a boat accident on the beach, was held to day, and a verdict of accidental death returned, a rider was added censuring the keeper of the landing service for leaving the boat on the beach against which deceased was crushed. The remains of Wm. H. Ostler, who was found dead in his bed at his residence, BenshonStation, McKenzie country, last Monday morning, were brought into town to-day, and a post mortem examination showed that deceased had died from the rupture of a blood vessel close to the heart, and the verdict of the coroner’s jury was in accordance with the medical testimony. Edward Hart, who was found on the beach exhausted from loss of blood a few days ago, still lives, but is in a very precarious condition. Dunedin, Friday

In reference to what was said regarding the Dunedin Morning Herat i at the meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, it may be said that the Herald gives special cate to commercial matters, and that so far from publishing sensational and unjustifiable statements, it only the other day called attention to the reprehensible action of some New Zealand papers in publishing exaggerated reports of commercial affairs.

A case of great interest between the captain of an American vessel and two British subjects is expected to come off at the Resident Magistrate’s Court. The matters to be disclosed in evidence occurred on the high seas. The case excites some attention from it having been threatened to put the two persons on board against their will and convey them to New York.

For eight of the deferred-payment sections there were forty-two applicants. Eleven applied for one section. Mr. J. A. McKenzie, legal manager of _ the Cromwell Quartz Mining received a telegram this morning informing him that a cake of gold weighiogsix hundred aad forty-two ounces, the result of four hundred and sixtyfour tons stone, being usual four weelp crushing, had been deposited in the Colonial Bank, Cromwell. This is the fifth crushing since the beginning of the year the tota yield being three thousand one hundred and seventeen ounces from two thousand four hundred and thirteen tons of stone, giving an average of about one ounce six dwts. to the ton. ' The only insolvency of any importance m Dunedin district for the past two mouths occurred this week, Mr. Jno. Tunnage, of Port Chalmer, having fiied. His debts are £2200, but his assets are placed at rather more than £IOOO above his liabilities. ' ' The Morning Herald says that Mr. Richard Reeves has been appointed by Government to negotiate the purchase of the Wellington Coal Company Branch Railway. The Koranni Coal Company are putting 2000 shares in the market to pay for works now under contract.