TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1286, 6 January 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The ship Turakina, Captain Gordon, 105 days from London, and the Warwick, 58 days from Calcutta, have arrived at Dunedin. The brig Annabel, 328 tons, has become a total wreck on Tory Shoal, Kaipara Heads. The captain and crew were saved, but their clothes and the ship’s chronometer and papers were lost. At the inquest at Wellington on the body of the young woman Gamble the evidence proved that she had left a note stating that she was tired of her life. A verdict was returned that the immediate cause of death was bronchial pneumonia, aoee'erated by a dose of poison, but whether chloral or cb’oroform, or where obtained there was not sufficient evidence to show. A seaman named G o. Bethune attempted to commit suicide at Auckland on Friday lust by jumping off tt*e wharf info the sea, whence he was rescued by a bystander. The quartermaster of the ship Lady Jocelyn, now lying at Auckland, has been arrested charged with stabbing (on N«vv Year’s Eve) a shipmate named Smith in the fingers and in the arm. Bystanders prevented further mischief. Government have resolved to do away with Receivers of Revenue on the goldfields, local bodies being entrusted with their duties. The receivers will bo allowed retiring compensation. The Criminal Calendar for the Supreme Court, Christchurch, this session, comprises 20 indictments. Gerald Fitzgerald has been committed for trial for complicity in the murder of Meldrum at Nenthorn. ,

A laborer named John Cm nelly, living at Uhristchnrcdi cut Id? thro.t 01 Tlun>day last, but, hopes are cn'eitai u d uf Ins ncoveiy. He hid been diinking heavily. A. man named Collins has discovered a payable quartz reef, in the interior, about eighty miles north of Napier, and intends lo float a Company to work it. At Tologa Bay on New Years Day, two young women named B'arah arid Maggie Harvey went out in a boat on the river taking a little boy two years old named Findlayson with them. The boat drifted down the river on to the bar, where it capsized, and ail were drowned. The bodies of the boy nod of Maggie Harvey have been recovered. The Telegraph Department have accepted the tender of Messrs Whitoombe and Tombs for 100,000 envelopes. This is the first tender for colonial manufactured stationery, and it is at a less price than the same could be imported. At Seacliff Lunatic Asylum on New Year’s Day, two warders, William Matheson and Gordon ingrain, were larking, and the former asked the other to strike him on the chest. Ingram did 30 and Matheson fell down dead. Ingram was arrested. At the inquest a verdict of manslaugoter was returned. A man named Fish was drowned in a creek at Dargavibe, Auckland. The officers of the American warship Iroquois are being lionised at Auckland. A heavy thunderstorm was expelienced at Palmerston North on Wednesday afternoon. The lightning struck the chimney of the residence of Mr Watson, the schoolmas'er, driving one side of it completely out down to thereof. The lightning ran along the iron roof to the corner of the building where a wire dollies line was attached by a staple, the end of (he wire running to a fence in one direction, and a post in the yard in the other. The fence post was split and the other post was shivered to splinters which were hurled to a considerable distance. No other damage is reported, On the same afternoon there was a severe hailstorm at Rarer, Tl.e Customs revenue for (lie last quarter of 1884 amounts to £327,175, against £331,990 for the corresponding quarter of 1883, This brings the toial for the year to £1,413,421, against £1,414,181 for the 1883. A young woman named Annie Harrington, living at North Invercargill, attempted to commit suicide on the 27th tilt, by eating “ Rough on rats” spread on bread and butter. She took a dose sufficient to kill, but told a neighbor what she had done, and was removed to the hospital where emetics were successfully administered. The accused recovered sufficiently to appear in Court on Saturday, and was committed for trial. Domestic trouble is believed to be the cause of the act.