TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1395, 22 September 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Henry Tayros, aged 50, employed on Buckland’s run, Kaipara Heads, Auckland, whilst out in a dingy, was blown out to sea, and it is believed he is drowned. The dead body of a male infant was found on Friday morning on a public road near the Episcopalian Church, Whangarei, Auckland. It is supposed to be a case of infanticide.

George Greathead, one of the first settlers, the pioneer Pressman of Wairarapa, and founder of Oddfellowship in the colony, drank a poisonous lotion for his back, in mistake for rum, at 8,30 o’clock last Thursday night. He immediately cried out that he was poisoned, and died three hours afterwards, at his residence, Carterton.

Mr J. P. Maxwell’s (General Manager for Railways) report on Mr Yaile’s proposal respecting railway rates aml fares was laid on the Table of the House on Saturday. It condemns the proposal as utterly misleading, states that the calculations have Ix-en based on erroneous foundations, and concludes by stating that Mr Yaile’s statements are “ untrue,” his proposals “ bad, ” and that be “has deceived himself and misled others by his averages.” Sir Julius Yogel’s eldest son, Mr 11, B. Yogel, who was born in the colony, has just earned off, at Wimbledon, the Spencer Cup, which is a prize given by Earl Spencer for the best shot in all the public schools of the Uniied Kingdom, Mr Yogel represented Charter lloum-, where he previously won, during the same season, a silver cup at the Wimbledon competition, and a silver medal for the highest aggregate score of the season. The cable-repairing steamer which is to undertake the work of repairing the cable across Cook Strait is not expected to arrive in these waters for fully six weeks, us she is engaged in laying tlm duplicate cable from Australia lo Tasmania,

The body of a seaman named Vincent Crol), who has been missing from the steamer Hinemoa for ten days past, was discovered floating in the Wellington harbor on Sunday between the Queen and Railway Wharves. His head was-terribly disfigures]. An elderly man named John Laymont committed suicide by drowning in the Waikato river, at Cambridge, on Friday. He carefully folded his clothes on the hank and walked into the liver. He left a letter bidding good bye to his friends and his executor, and stating that particulars of his family could be got from his brother at Christchurch. Payment has for some time been suffering from religious mania.

In the Supremo Court, Wanganui, on Friday, a decree nisi was granted in the divorce case Helenor Chaidicott v. Louis Win. Chaidicott. The appellant proved adultery with a barmaid, and cruelty to herself. The defendant is a brewer, and was until lately a partner in the firm of Stiachan and Chaidicott.