TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1329, 18 April 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At Dunedin yesterday, Judge Williams granted a judicial separation in the case of Hagan v. Hagan on the ground of continued cruelty. The Hon. E. Richardson accompanied by Col. Lyon, visited the north head defence at Auckland on Thursday. William Thorne, draper, at Parnell, Auckland, died suddenly yesterday morning. He exclaimed—“ I have taken powder !” and after a few spasmodic struggles died. It is supposed he poisoned himself.

A Queensland squatter named F, A. Clarke, died at the Star Hotel, Auckland, yesterday morning from narcotic poisoning. He arrived there on the 23rd March and bad intended leaving on Thursday for Melbourne, but on that day doctors were called in and found him to be suffering from poisoning by chlorodyne. The usual remedies were applied but without avail, and ho died yesterday morning. The clerks in (he various Banking Institutions in Auckland propose raising a rifle corps, and it is expected 80 members will he obtained.

The Auckland contractors have stripped their works of 100 men to work at the harbor defences. Two hundred and forty men are employed. Taraai Make, a Maori, has poisoned himself at Auckland with tutu, which he boiled and drank as a medicine.

The question of apppointing local Boards under the Government Insurance Association will probably come before the Central Board next week. Ministers re-assemble at Wellington towards the end of the month, when the date for calling Parliament together will be settled.

In the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Ihursday, in the case Murray v. Brown, for trespass, wrongful sale and assault, the jury returned a verdict • for £3OO damages. On Wednesday at Christchurch, 48 men received passes to the Waiau at the Public Works office. This makes a total of 180 passes issued since the recommencement of the unemployed agitation a few weeks ago. At Auckland on Thursday Robert McElvie, a seaman, shot Thomas Steward in the jaw and left breas 1 with a revolver, while the latter was silting in Mrs Benson’s boarding-house with the landlady. The cause was jealousy, McElvie escaped. Steward was taken to the Hospital. One of the bullets has been extracted, and he is likely to recover, McElvie formerly lived with Mrs Benson and had previously ihreatened her and Steward.

Tire Hon. W. J- M. ich arrived in Christchurch on Thursday morning by the Waihora. He left by tram in the after? noon for the Malvern district and will spend about a week examining the mineral deposits os the interior.

W, J. Black is gazetted an officer under the Salmon and Trout Act (or the Canterbury District, and also a ranger for llie South Canterbury District. One of the seven-ton guns was mounted at Forbnry Head on Thureday, and another will be mounted at Sawyers Head next Wednesday. These are to protect the city from bombardment from the ocean. The defence works at Taiaroa Heads to protect the entrance to the harbor are also in a forward state.