TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1367, 18 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Harry Sheppard, employed in cutting limber at Lake Wanaka (Otago), committed suicide by shooting himself with a gun. In Chambers at Dunedin, Judge Williams refused to make an allowance to Hutchison out of his estate, pending his trial. At the civil session of the Auckland Supreme Court, Dr Cadwell, of Kawakawa, recovered £SO damages against Geo, Brewer, a blacksmith, for slandering his professional ability in setting the leg of Brewer’s son. In the case of Geo. Elliot, of Deniliquin, New South Wales, v. Thomas Hancock, a brewer, for alleged libel, the Judge summed up strongly for the defendant. A verdict was returned for £2OO. The jury gave a verdict for £BOO against the Tramway Company for an accident by which Mr North lost his foot. The Rev. T. W, Dunn has decided to resign his charge of the district of Pukokohe, Auckland, at the end of the year, in consequence of the recent action of the Presbytery relative to hia lecturing tour in the South. The City of Sydney, with the June English mails, left San Francisco for Auckland on the slh instant, one day late. The Australia, with the June Colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 12th June, two days in advance of time-table date. The twenty-one sailors who refused to go to Guam in the s.s. Coptic, have instructed Mr Shaw to take proceedings against the master and owners of the vessel for unlawful prosecution. A man named Fred. Stock was arrested in Wellington on Wednesday morning on a charge of stealing an overcoat and valuable papers amounting to £7OO from a chief named Wiere Tnroa, at Foxton. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment; At an inquest on Robert Sellars, of Wellington, who poisoned himself with “ Rough on Rats ” a verdict was returned that the deceased died from that poison, administered by himself while suffering from the effects of drink, and added a rider to the effect that more stringent regu’ations should be enforced regarding the sale of “ Rough on Rats.” On dit that the recent totalisator dispute at Dunedin has led to the issue of a writ for £2OOO damages for defamation of character.

A most distressing case of death from exposure is reported from Norsewood, Hawkes Bay. A Mrs Jacobson, wife of a small settler residing in a lonely cottage, left on Monday morning to get a cow out of the bush. Her husband was absent working on a distant contract, but her three children were left at home with strict injunctions not to leave the house till she returned. She did not come back all night, and next day, when by chance a visitor to tbe cottage found the children wild witli excitement, search parties were organised and tho bush was scoured, but it was not until Wednesday morning that Mrs Jacobson was discovered, about seven chains from the house. She had then been dead some hours.

The railway conspiracy cases were concluded on Thursday in the Supreme Court, Christchurch. All the accused not previously tried, except Francis Gillard. who was afterwards convicted, pleaded guilty, Thomas Hough was sentenced to two years’ hard labor. William Percival, Patrick Kellaher, Henry Clark, Francis Gillard, George Davis John Koskella, Robert Dudley, Thomas Macdonnell, William Thomas, and Robert Campbell received three months’imprisonment with hard labor, and George Willmott two months’impsisonment with hard labor. buccessful torpedo experiments have been made at Auckland. A prisoner escaped from Mount Cook Gaol, Wellington, on Thursday morning, but was recaptured shortly afterwards. The rumor that has risen during the last day or two that Sir Julius Vogel was likely to assume the head of the Government Insurance Department is quite without a foundation. A stabbing affray accurred at Dunedin on Thursday between two men working on the new road (o the Hoads. The men were quarrelling over some tools, when a man named Newman drew his knife and stabbed the other, Edward Stallard, in the abdomen.. The wound is about an inch and a-half deep, but is not considered very dangerous. Newman was arrested hy the Armed Constabulary on the defence woiks, and Stallard taken lo the Hospital.

The Missionary Committee of the Presbyterian Oliurch, Dunedin, have received a reply to their memorial to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reference to the Fre.nch occupation of the New Hebrides. The reply states that no propasal for the annexation of the Group would be entertained without consulting thei colonies and securing conditions satisfactory to them, and England would never think of giving over the Group to France without taking care that they would never become a penal settlement,