LATE TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1293, 22 January 1885, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

The Auckland Harbor Board are pressing the claims of that place on the Lords of the Admiralty as a Naval Station. Mrs Oven'ngton, the wife of a blacksmith at Tepuka, near Tauranga, Auckland, committed suicide on Monday by swallowing a quantity of strychnine. Mrs Fredericks, the wife of a negro minstrel named G. E. Fredericks, at Auckland horsewhipped a young mao named Prentiss, under the belief that he had circulated scandalous stories concerning her. The iNew Plymouth men who are to take part in the Fire Brigade demonstration at Dunedin next Wednesday left for that place yesterday. The wreck of the Star of the Scuth at Greyrnoutb was offered for sale at auction on Tuesday, but no hid was elicited. She is not further damaged. A boy named Robert Quile, 14 years of age, of Kumara, in the employ of Matlock, of Tawhaka, was killed on Monday afternoon by the capsizing of a drayload of wool. Edwin Ohery, a man 50 years of age, hung himself at South Dime tin yesterday offing to his wife’s infidelity.

Remenyi, the violinist, was serenaded afc Oamaru by the Garrison Band on Tuesday and he complimented them on their music. The Presbyterian Synod now sitting at Dunedin has resolved to use its endeavors to influence the Legislature to amend the Education Act by sanctioning the introduction of the Bible into the State schools. The Auckland Northern Club recently sold an old cottage for £7 10a and in pulling it down the purchaser found £4O secreted in the chimney. At Auckland on Monday in the Supreme Court decrses absolute were granted in the divorce cases Swanson v. Swanson and Offer v. Offer. In the cases Moulden v. Moulden the ju»y found for the petitioners, but Judge Gillies intimated that he would not grant a decree nisi. Three men, named Peter George, Henry Lloyd, and Matthew Pawzadeth, were on Monday buried in a tunnel by a large fall of earih on the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company’s works at Pukerau, about 24 miles from Wellington. Pawzadeth was rescued alive, but died shortly afterwards. The others were quit® dead when reached.