TELEGRAPHIC.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 984, 15 January 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

O ; (per press association) AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. A bnshman, named Cunningham, attempted suicide at Northern Wairoa by stabbing himself in the neck and breast. He said (hat his mate Patterson, who was drowned some time back in the Northern Wairoa, had instigated him to do it. He had been drinking. In Chambers Mr Justice Gillies stated that, in cases where debtors conceal any of their creditors’ names by omitting them from the schedule, and obtain their discharge without the omission being repaired, the concealed liability holds good, and the creditor may seek to recover when he can.

George Olsen has been committed for trial for attempted murder of his wife, Elizabeth Olsen. WELLINGTON, Jan. 12. Up to the present time upwards of 170 applications have been rfeceived, applying for the right to participate in the £6OOO granted by Parliament last session towards free libraries. _ The Stella, which arrived from the South to-day, brings intelligence of a somewhat serious misfortune as having happened to a settler on the West Coast of the South Island. Mr Stevenson, formerly manager of the Colonial Bank at Palmerston South, having bought a station and an eight-roomed house at Pavings, on the West Coast, was conveyed to the place by the btella. On arriving he found his house had boon burned to the ground, Apparently by an inuend&vy. Mr Stevenson then sot to work to build ra hut for the temporary accommod aiion o'f Mmseit family. U is hoped ‘ihai the pevpetWrtOt* of the outrage will be discovered and punished. CHRABTOHURCU, d.<m. VI. At the Police Court to-day George Smith was charged on remand with pairing the unlawful game of “Fan” on (he Ueatheote Racecourse on the l 2(hh December last. Mr Holmes, who appeared for accused, said that, after looking carefully into the law of the ca so, he found that under the New Zealand Act his client had been legally guilty of an offence, and that the Heathcote Racecourse, though private property, was a place where the public assembled on race days, and therefore he would admit that defendant had been guilty of a legal offence, though at the time he thought he was keeping within the law. Inspector Pender said accused had been cautioned by the police to desist before be was arrested. The Bench would regard the car.e as a test one, and deal leniently with accused. Fined £2, and the instrument nsed in the game ordered to he forfeited. ASHBURTON, Jan. 12. John Meiklejobn, who stands committed for trial for stealing a larere number of Sir John Hall’s and Mr Bealey s sheep, was hronsdit up on another charge of stenliner five hundred sheep belonadni? to Mr Cordy, of Hororata. Accused, who is a sheep farmer, and well known thronuhont Canterbury, was committed for trial on this ohartre also. DUNEDIN, Jan. 12. The ship Dunedin sails to-morrow, for London. She takes 8271 carcases of mutton, almost the whole of which are shipped by the N Z. and A.L. Company, principally from their Parcoro and Totara estates,

The San Francisco correspondent of the Otago Daily Times thinks it quite probable that the frozen meat trade from New Zealand may be extended to that country. TIMARU, Jan. 12. At the Resident Magistrates Court to-day Robert Inncs was committed for trial at the Supreme Court for wilfully setting fire to a stack of hay valued at £l5O, the property of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company. A young man named McDonald, who was working on the Fairlie Creek railway extension, was severely crushed between two trucks yesterday, and was removed to the hospital. OAMARU, Jan. 12. A meeting of merchants was held here to-day, to consider the railway tariff. After discussing the tariff from a variety of standpoints, it was resolved — u That a copy of the comparative tables that had been compiled by Mr James Aitken and Mr Evans, together with a report from the chairman, be forwarded to the Chambers of CommercrA at Invercargill and Timaru; and those bodies be asked to co-operate with Oamaru in endeavouring to secure a rectification of the inconsistency and injustice of the railway tariff, and to make any suggestions in regard to the subject which they might deem desirable with a view to taking united and prompt action.