TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1354, 18 June 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

An inquest a"as held at Aucklaud on Monday on the body of a domestic servant named Margaret O'Brieu, in the service of W. J. Courtney, of Poooonby, who died suddenly after vomiting. Or Knight said after an analysis be concluded the symptoms were similar to those of virulent poisoniner. The deceased said >ibe had been been eating green lemons. She had been nnly two days in her place, and was friend less there but she had a brother in the South. The inquest was adjourned to Friday. Mr Booth's temperance mission closed in Wellington on Thursd ly night. In his address on Sunday, Mr Booth said his mission had not been so successful as he had a right to expect, and he had not taken so manj pledges as be had in (Jhristchureh, Dunedin, or Auckland. At Mr Booth's mission on Monday right an immense number of Volunteers paraded to hear his lecture on remiuiecenses of soldier life. Eight of the officers present, including the Chairman, Major Crow, and a large number of Volunteers, took the pledge. A young woman named Elizabeth Harris, made a deliberate attempt to commit suicide at Wellington on Monday afternoon, by throwing herself down the hold of the steamer lonic, falling a distance of 30 feet. She fell on the keelson, but was conscious on being brought to the deck, when she repeate lly said she intended to kill herself, as she was tired of lifo. She was removed to the Hospital, but it is feared her spine is injured. She is a married woman, and had been drinking. At the meeting of the St. Kilda Licensing Committoe, the Chairman made a strong attack on the police for their report in regard te the drunkenness prevalent among vomen in the neighboring district of Souiih Dunedin. He characterised the report as uncalled for, unmanly and tin true.

As a consequence of the proposed formation of a paid Fire Brigade in Dunedin the present body have tendered their resignations, to take effect in September. Not many of i'.ke members feel inclined to acoept the terms offered by tha City Council for a paid Brigade. A fisherman named Derritt was drowned at Ibumner on Sunday. James Dunn, an ex-burg'ar, has been committed for larceny at Auckland. A miner named Hugh McCormick met his death by an accident in the new Prince Imperial mine, Thaniep, ou Tuesday afternoon,, Venturing into a face immediately ai'ter a shot had been fired, he was struck down by a mas* of rock which fell from the roof, and waa killed instantaneously. He leaves a wife and one child, Titokowaru and his people were at Opunake on Tießday momii>g, and danced a haka afterwards, Titokowaru said that the natives h:id met there that day to show that peace had been made with the Europeans, wbo he hoped would not take a wrong mean ing from their war dress. He concluded his address by saying he would shower peace on the people forever. A very large meeting of policy-holders in the Government Association was held in Wanganni on Tuesday night. The following resolution was passed and ordered to be sent the Central Board, Wellington, there being only two dissentients J—" That in the opinion of this meeting the proposal to establish local boards in connection with the Government Insurances Association is unnecessary and unwise, and, if carried into effect, would result in an increase of expenditure more than equivalent to any possible advantage to be gained." Mr G. S. Searle, an old and much respected journalist, well-known throughout New Zealand, died at the Wellington Hospital on Tuesday afternoon. On the previous Tuesday evening while attending a choss tournament, Mr_ Searle was suddenly neized with paralysis, and he gradually sunk. Mr Searle was very recently the ed itor of the Mataura Ensign (Otago).

At the inquest on James Barr, who was found dead in a hut at Levels Flat, a verdict was returned: " That the deceased met his death by poisoning, but there was no evidence to show how it had been administered."

In the Invsrcargill Police Court on Tuesday, James Mabin, runholder at Beomore, was charged on remand with having attempted to pet fire to some stacks on the farm of a settler named O'Bonnell. After further evidence bad been taken as to the character of prosecutor, the Bench dismissed the information, holding that a prima facie case had not been made out. They considered that Mabin's witnesses had proved that he was at home en the ;date when he was said to have been seen at the Btack, and pointed out that O'Donnell's evidence was uncorrobc rated.