TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1384, 27 August 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

A girl named Tretheway has been killed at Tawhere, Waikato (Auckland), through a trap accident. Wakeham has been committed for trial at Auckland for the attempted murder of his wife. The Auckland unemployed have declined to accept stone-breaking and are petitioning the Government to employ them on street improvements. Heavy rains fell throughout Sunday at Greymouth, and culminated in a flooded river on Monday morning. About three o'clock a wall of water came down, and while the men were at work in one of the cylinders, it carried away two rows of temporary piles, although driven fifteen feet into the shingle. The derrick at the end of the work was carried away, and also a donkey eneine and boiler. The cylinders were not attached to the woodwork, and the damage is not considered heavy. It is expected the engine, which is fastened to a frame-work, will be recovered. The flood was not near so high as the previous one, which carried away the cylinders and did other damage. A walking content took place on Monday night at Christchurch between Arthur Hancock, a well-known pedestrian, and Libeau, of Akaroa. The distance was ten miles, and the stakes £SO. Libeau forced the. pace tremendously at the start, bm Hflrr -oin ff *V,r t! e mil--. 1.0 t .mi,,.lMinr.| of a stitch in the side, and gave up. Hancock walked over the rest of the distance. . .„.,.»,..., At the Kaiapoi Resident Magistrate * Court on Monday, 0. B. llichurds was lined £'2 for raffling a gun and other articles without obtaining a license trocn the Colonial Secretary. Three of the parlicpators in the raffle were fined 10s An inquest was held at Menzies' Ferry, Southland, on Monday on the body of Henry Cunningham, a lad of 16 year*-', found drowned in the Mataura on Saturday. From the evidence it appeared that the youth had been in a desponding state of mind, and a letter to his family has been found in which he stated his intention of destroying himself as he was tired of life. A search was made in the river on Saturday, when' the body was found in two feet of witer with his hands tied down to his feet. The Jury returned a verdict of "Suicide during a fit of temporary insanity." Steps are being taken by the City Council to establish a market in Dunedin. One gentleman has offered a donation of £2OO towards the object. John Whitman, brought in from Rotorua after 14 days' exposure on Galatea Plains, died on Tuesday at the Auckland Hospital from exhaustion.

A torpedo, invented by Mr Jardine, of Wellington, and now uuder offer to the. Government, was tried at Wellington on Tuesday. The special advantages claimed for the invention are cheapness and certainty of action. It resembles the McEvoy torpedo in shape, but instead of being fired by electricity it is fired by pulling a cord connected with the machinery inside, so that that although other torpedoes are often rendered useless by the electric connection being shot away, if the same shonld occur with the Jardine, explosion by this means is still available. The trial was mainly devoted to ascertaining whether the primary charges were affected by submersion, and one containing such a charge was filled with water and allowed to stand in that condition for ten minutes. It was then fired, the explosion proving that no injury had been done to the charges by the submersion. The general result of the trial was satisfactory.