TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 19 June 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

TO THE “ MAIL.”

(per united press association.)

DREADFUL SUICIDEAuckland. —A terrible tragedy occurred in Chapel-streot this morning. A mill-band named Henry Foreman, aged 22, and married seven weeks, took down his carbine and threatened to shoot his wife. She ran out of the house, but had not gone many yards before she heard a shot. Her husband was found dead, with a large hole over his heart. Jealousy is assigned as the cause. Mrs Foreman is enceinte.

Shocking Gun Accident. Dunedin.—A Fort Rose telegram brings tbe news that a young gentleman named Slater, recently from Home, who was on a visit to Mr E. S, Vernon, of Toi Toi station, has been discovered lying dead beside a creek in tbe bush. He bad been out shooting, and bis gun had accidentally discharged itself. The top of the young man’s head was blown clean off. His body had evidently lain all night.

GOLD RETURNS at WOODSTOCK Hokitika.—Curnick and party, at the Woodstock Rush, washed up on Saturday, and obtained 22 ounces of gold as the result of 40 loads of wash dirt. A number of other claims will wash up immediatel}', they having been waiting for water. The rush is extending daily, and there are about twelve hundred men on the field.

Wreck of a Steamer. Auckland.—Messrs Waller & Co. have received an intimation by cable that the s.s. Pretty Jane, recently purchased by the firm, had become a total wreck near Sydney. The vessel was formerly of Auckland.

Inland Railway—Another Route. Auckland.—Mr J. C. Firth proposes the following as an alternative line to the Waikato-Taranaki route:—Starting from Oxford, on the Rotorua line, now being surveyed, it would run up the Oraka Valley for four miles; then straight on through to Koroa Plain in a southerly direction for about fifteen miles, whence it would incline to the

westward, in order to round the Whakamaru range; thence running up the valley of the Waikato river on a natural terrace till about thirty miles from Oxford ; cross the Waikato river, and, skirting the base of Titiraupenga mountain and Hauralda range, would pass between the latter and Karangahape range about 65 miles from Oxford. From this point to Wanganui, about 95 miles, is easy country; making a total distance, from Oxford to Wanganui, of about 160 miles.

After a DebtorTimaru.—Detective Kirby has left for San Francisco via Auckland, in quest of the levanting debtor Shepherd. MeteorsTimaru.—There have been an exceptional number of meteors visible the last two nights, and a slight display of the

aurora Australis.

Bible in Schools

Dunedin. The Otago Bible-in-Schools Association are obtaining signatures to a petition for presentation to Parliament. Gas Extension-

Auckland. The Auckland Gas

Company have purchased land at the lake, North Shore, for the erection of gas works to supply the North Shore with gas. The price is to be 15s per 1000 feet.

WRECK OF TIMBER SHIP, Gisborne.—A native policeman arrived last night from East Cape reports the total loss of the ketch Jessie, laden for this port with timber. All hands were lost. The vessel was insured for £4OO.

MR IVESS’S ELECTION. Ashburton, Saturday. —ln the Wakanui election, Mr Joseph Ivess polled 600, Saunders 538 ; majority for Ivess 62. The Liberal party will give a banquette Mr Ivess on Monday.

Oil and Fibre CompanyChristchurch.—At a meeting of farmers and others on Saturday, it wa« resolved to establish a European Flax, Fibre, and Linseed Oil Company with a capital of £IO,OOO, in £5 shares.

New SteamerWellington.—Large crowds visited the Union Coy’s new steamer Manapouri last evening, to witness the display of the electric light on board.