POLITICAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1196, 26 June 1884, Page 3

POLITICAL.

Mr Joynt has consented to contest Christchurch South,

A very influential meeting, to the number of 00, met on Monday night at the Corn Exchange and formed themselves into a Committee to secure the return of Sir Julius Vogel for Christ church North. A requisition signed by about 300 electors was sent to. him, and he has contented t > stand,

The Duuedin Good Templars, being desirous in securing two members for the city, are bringing pressure to hear on Mr M. V v . Green to forego contesting Hum-din East with Mr Stout, and run Mr H. S Fish for Dunedin South, [Singe the above w«s in type the Good Templars have denied the report, and state that they will support Mr Greeti even in preference to Mr Stout.] Mr J. IT. Sutter (the present member) will staud for the Gladstone seat.

ACCIDENTS, OF FENCES, ETC. A man named Henry Cross Berry has been fatally iniured at Auckland by falling from the scaffolding of a building. Burglaries are becoming of frequent occurrence in Auckland. During the passage of the schooner Three Cheers between Auckland and Noumea a seaman named Anderson was knocked overboard by the boom and was 1 drowned. _ ■ A skeleton has been found on J. W. Curr's farm at the Three Kings. The police are investigating the matter. On Saturday afternoon at Hokitika, a man named Louis Jean, employed by a contractor for removing piles on the wharf, was the victim of ho explosion of dynamite. He was ramming dynamite into a tube, when it exploded, shattering both his legs. Hn was removed to the hospital, where he expired two hours after the accident. . Mr J. Lothian, a contractor in South Dunedin, broke a blood vessel on Monday morning while vomiting, and died in less than an hour. He leaves a wife and five children. At the Resident Magistrates Court, Christohurch, on Monday, an information was heard against the Secretaiy of the Freethought Association for permitting the Freethought Hall to be used far purposes of amusement without being licensed. The so-called amusements were lectures by Mr Charles Bright, freethinker, and the case was brought by the City Council to test the question as to whether the Freethought Hall ought not to be a licensed building. The information was dismissed, the Bench remarking that the services in the Cathedral might just as fairly be deemed amusements as the lectures given by Mr Bright. Two apprentices of the barque Examiner now at Lyttelton have been poisoned by eating a tin of jam with a Hobart label. One of them, Frank Frew, died on Tuesday afternoon at Sunnysido, It is not certain that his death is directly attributable to the jam, but it was undoubtedly accelerated by it. At the Oddfellows' Hall, Christchurch, on Tuesday night, at the Blondins' exhibition on the tight-rope, the eldest, a girl of about 11 years, who had just completed fifty-two miles, having been walking all day, took a little brother 2£ years old on her back, and mounted the light rope. He was blindfolded, but not fastened to her. Her stoc-kings were wet with perspiration, and caused her to slip. She screamed < I am falling,' and immediately fell, fortuuatoly from no great height as she was over the stage. She sustained no further injury than a bruise on one arm and a considerable shaking. The little fellow was also somewhat bruised. The police at once stopped the performance, and the father of the children promiaed not to continue the show.

At Wellington on Tuesday a child named White had the muscles and sinews of one leg torn away below the knee, by getting the leg entangled in.a trolly wheel while in motion. The child is progressing favorably. H. M. Oalders, late postmaster at Panhaka, and in the A.C. Force, was on Tuesday committed for trial for embezzling moneys belonging co the Government.

A respectably connected girl named Enright, was found insensible in the surf, at Napier, on Tuesday afternoon, and letters found on her lead to the belief that this is a case of attempted suicide in consequenco of heartless betrayal by her lover.