TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5798, 29 October 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PLK PH ESS AGEKCV.) New Plymouth, Tuesday. The castings of the Taranaki iron at Evans* foundry were rein wed from the moulds to-day. They were found to be perfect. They comprise two railway bogie wheels, some magnets, tools, and ornaments. <4 uAh AM STOtvtT, Tuesday. Mr. Douglas Van* Kent was found dead tins morning at Whitaker’s reduction works. He was living at those works, which have been idle some time, having separated from his wife, and had been in low spirits for some time, owing to pecuniary trouble*. He was a mem* ber of the Naval Brigade, and shot himself with a carbine through the heart. Mrs. Kent asserts she heard the report of a gun about ten o'clock last night. Deceased was 33 years of age, and leaves a wife and several children unprovided for. Fie had some relations in Brisbane. An inquest was held to-day before Dr. Brassey, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a tit of temporary insanity. An inquest on the body of Dr. Gilbert was held to-day. The evidence showed accidental mistake of tincture of belladonna for an orange peel tincture. A verdict of taking poison in mistake was returned. Auckland, Tuesday. Mr. Hurst has telegraphed to the meeting of electors to-night that it is unfair to pass judgment without a knowledge of all the circumstances. A serious accident happened to a man named Hugh G-raydon, at daggers and Parker’s sawmill, Ereemana Bay. He was engaged at one of the benches cutting a knee for a vessel, ami had wedged it out in order that the saw might make the necessary curve. Suddenly the wedge flew out of the timber, and struck the man a heavy blow on the forehead, rendering him insensible. Ho recovered consciousness two minutes later, and was then taken home and attended to by Dr. Dawson, who found that a deep out about one inch by one inch and a half had been inflicted on the forehead. It is not considered that the accident will have a fatal effect. A little girl named Lowe fell over a cliff two hundred feet in height, at Barnaba’s Point, Parnell, and was severely injured, but the injuries are not considered fatal. The Ilotomahana made a splendid trip to Sydney and back on Bay of Islands coal. The working men’s political association has ’ssued a circular inviting information rc assistance to local industries. The stones found on the railway line are attributed to children, who were observed playing. Ohuistchurch, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Liberal Reform Association to-night, Dr. Turnbull in the chair, and about sixty persons present, resolutions were passed condemning the action of the Auckland members in joining Hall’s party, and of the Hall Government for using improper moans to retain power. The meeting protested against the seating of Mr. Richardson, and repudiates him as their representative, and pledges itself to assist by any legal means to exclude Messrs. Richardson and Stevens from their seats in Parliament,

At the Police Court to-day, a charge against John Davis, for criminally assaulting an unmarried female, was dismissed. Dunedix, Tuesday.

Mr. Dick, in a letter to a friend, gives an emphatic contradiction to the report that if another Otago member be appointed Minister-, he is to be that member. He states distinctly that he will not take office, believing that as a private member he will be able to speak more openly and frankly as to the wants of Otago. Another tramway accident occurred last night, through a passenger jumping off a car when in motion. The fourth session of the fourth Synod of the diocese of Otago opened here to-day. Five of the female members of the Loftus Troupe have been summoned to the Police Court for having acted in an indecent manner in a burlesrpie last evening.