TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1298, 3 February 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A painter named John Stafford White, aged 75, committed suicide in Wellington on Sunday by hanging himself. It is believed that domestic troubles and drink led to the rash act. The Premier and party arrived at Westport last Sunday night. The first stone of the harbor was laid yesterday and a banquet was held in the evening. The requisition asking Sir Julius Vogel to address a public meeting at Auckland has been signed hy 700 persons. The charges against the Salvationists at Blenheim for creating a disturbance by beating a drum were yesterday further adjourned for a week, the wilnessess for the defendants not being in attendance. The body of a child found in a j tr the other day at Loasley’s chemist’s shop, Wanganui, has been examined by Dr Earl, and it is his opinion that the child breathed. It weighs now five pounds, and has been in preserve to all appearances about two years. An inquest is likely to be held. A telegram from Greymouth states that soundings on tho Oohden bridge site were taken on Thursday, when a depth of water of 61 feet was found. When the piles were driven before the flood there was only 20 feet there, Bishop Redwood left Wellington for Lyttelton on Friday, The enquiry by the Christchurch Hos pital Commissioners into the charge made against Dr Stewart for performing a major operation without consulting his brother medicos resulted in a resolution being passed affirming the Commissioners’ undiminished confidence in Dr Stewart. The Oamaru Harbor Board have reduced the wages of the men in their employ by £SOO per annum. Attheß.M. Court, Dunedin, on Friday, in the claim for damages by Schneider, the seaman, against Captain Fawkner, of the Warwick, for assault, judgment was given for £2 on each of three, making £6 in all. Dr Richardson, a member of the medical visiting staff to the Auckland hospital, has resigned. He makes various charges against the House Surgeon as to the treatment of a patient. John Brown, a negro, has been committed for trial for the attempted murder of another negro at Auckland. Bail was refused. It is proposed to get the New Zealand Cyclists’ Alliance ten mile championship decided in Dunedin, at the Amateur Athletic meeting in March, instead of, as the rules provide, at Auckland. A private match between Langdown, of Christchurch, and Cutten, of Dunedin, will take place at the same time, Mr E. Cults’ horse Walter King met with a nasty accident as it was returning to its owner’s stables after the New Brighton races, where it had won the Handicap Hurdles, It backed into a coach, both wheels of which passed over its hind legs, and it was so badly injured as to render it doubtful whether it will be ever again fit for the course.