LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1185, 26 October 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, Oct. 25. Mr Henry Gordon, the recently appointed Inspector of Mines, left for the south this afternoon to inspect the Otago Goldfields. It is expected that his visit will extend over three weeks. The Government this morning notified to the City Council that it is their intention to take the whole control and management of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid. Applications for the position of resident surgeon were to be considered by the Council to-morrow night but the Government have requested that the applications may be handed over to them. It is understood that the number of applications for the position of resident surgeon at the hospital was eight; 30 for that of steward, aud 12 for the office of dispenser, AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr J. A, Tele, was married yesterday. Isaac Wilson, of Rotorua, contractor for some works at Waitara, has been arretted here on a charge of embezzling a cheque for £2O.

The directors of Langdon's quartz mine have, by a personal visit, found that the reef has made, with fairly solid stone about two feet wide. The widening stone shows good gold. It is stated here that Judge Fenton retires at the end of the mouth, aud will become agent for the Loudon branch of the New Zealand Native Laud Company. At 4.45 this morning Albert Edward Long, aged 19. residing at Pukeuo. shot his father Richard Dixon Long, but not fatally; he afterwards shot himself. The wound is expected to be fatal; it is Supposed the cause was money matters. tfttOTThe following particulars of the tragedy at Pokeno have been received A respectable gentleman named Long, residing with equally respectable people named Adams, had a son wno has beeu a prodigal, and done as ho liked. He returned to his father about a week ago from Auckland and Tauranga, where. It Is reported, he had spent a considerable sum of money. His manner since his return has been sullen and moody, but no one suspected that he contemplated the dreadful deed, which occurred early this morning. He got a revolver while his father was asleep, and putting it behind his ear, shot him through the head, the ball passing just below the brain. He then shot himself through the head in front of the ear. Both are still alive, but iu a critical state ; two doctors are attending them. Much sympathy is expressed iu the district, the older Long being known as a kind-hearted gentleman, not long from London. The doctors believe that there is a hope of the father’s recovery, but none of the sou’s.

DUNEDIN, This Day. The “ Mataura Ensign ” says it is not unlikely that Sir Julius Vogel will not be able to visit Now Zealand. He waits over the races in Melbourne, and has to be back in England before the end of the year. The “ Star ” says that all arrangements for the visit of the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s cricket team must be made with the Melbourne Club, Halifax only reserving offers. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Owing to a portion of the woodwork giving way, a workman named Thompson fell twenty-five feet from the Lyttelton railway foot-bridge, breaking an arm and leg. A man named Smith was charged at Lincoln with ill-using his wife and remanded, the doctor stating that the woman’s condition was critical. One of the witnesses described her as being half murdered. The City Council have convened a meeting of delegates of the Chamber of Commerce, Industrial Association, Working Mens’ Political Association, and other local bodies in Canterbury, to consider the advisability of forming a Railway League to press the construction of the West Coast railway on the Government. TIMARU, This Day. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s show was a great success. The weather was fine, and over 4,000 persons visited it. HAVELOCK, This Day. Dr Riley, of Havelock, died at Blenheim this morning. The town and the whole of the district Is now without a medical man.