TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1364, 11 July 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

A case of suicide occurred in Wellington last Thursday night, A young woman named Alice Barnaby, aged 22, engaged as a domestic servant in a restaurant in the town, in the afternoon purchased at a chemist’s a box cf “ Rough on Rats,” and swallowed two doses. Medical aid was summoned, and she was brought round about nine o’clock. Subsequently, however, she commenced to sink, and died at three o’clock on Friday morning. No cause has been assigned for the deed. John Mackeliar, telegraph lineman at Clyde (Otago), is believed to have been drowned in the river Clutba. He v'as traced to the river bank at Doctor’s point and his horse was found on the other side.

Despite the low prices for grain farmers in many parts of the Southland district are preparing to bring large areas under crop. The weather is very favorable to such operations, the days being bright and warm and the nights frosty. The Wallace County Council (Southland) on Thursday passed a resolution disapproving of the proposals in the new Counties Bill to allow the ratepayers to elect a Chairman and to make the Auditors elective.

John Reid, of Dunedin, has accepted Michael Maher’s challenge to wrestle for £SO aside and the championship of Auckland.

The damage to the ship Grassmere by the gale is estimated at £l5O to £2OO.

Another Blenheim libel action has been commenced, J. J. Sinclair having issued a writ against Richard Hornby, proprietor of the Marlborough Times, claiming £IOOO damages in respect of an article commenting on Sinclair’s connection with the exchange of hospital sites. Mr Conolly has been retained for the plaintiff. The case will be tried in the Supreme Court in October. The Wellington-Manawatu Railway Compuiy have received applications for more than the 1500 shares required to be subscribed for in the colony in order to raise the requisite additional capital. £200,000 is required for the completion of the line.

At an inquest on the body of an infant found in a garden at Wellington on Monday, a verdict of “Found dead” was returned.

At the Wellington Supreme Court Dennis Kelly, on a charge of receiving stolen property, was discharged. The summons case for assaulting a gaoler came before the Court again on Wednesny afternoon, hot the authorities decided not to proceed any further with it. This concluded the criminal business.

In the glove fight between Pettingell, Wellington, and Donovan, Auckland, the former proved victor.

The charge of concealing property within four months of his bankruptcy against S. S. Hutchinson was commenced on Wednesday, at Dnnedia aand is likely to last over several days. At the Supreme Court. Christchurch, on Thursday,Ernest Howland Davis, of National Sick and Burial Association fame, was found guilty of “uttering” and sentence was reserved, as there were other charges pending against him—one of administering laudanum to a woman and committing a rape, and two others for breaches of the Friendly Societies’ Act. The Kaiapoi Woollen Factory Co. was fined £1 on Thursday for allowing 45 women to remain in a workroom during meal time. It waa stated for the defence

that the women remained there from choice. Several Christchurch firms were also fined for breaches of the Employment of Females Act.

JBuchanan has been remanded from Auckland to Otahulm on a charge of burglary at the Otabuhu railway station. He served for a number of years in the police force, and was formerly clerk to the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Ashburton.