TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1419, 17 November 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A shockingly sudden death occurred at Hawera on Saturday, under peculiar circumstances. Robert McLeod, aged 16 years, was playing cricket, when he was •truck on the heal with a ball hit by the batsman. At the time be was hurt, he returned to the shop of Mr Pitcher, jeweller, where he was an apprentice, and took charge of the shop for an hour, performing ordinary dot es. and then went home to bed. He was t.ken seriously ill, became unconscious, and died two or three hours afterwards. Ihaka Te Moe, a native chief, died at Masterton, on Sunday. Ha was over 80 years of age, and had been a missionary 42 years. Messrs A. W, Brown, S. Brown, J. Dransfield, and F. McKenzie have been nominated for the Mayoralty of Wellington. William Beard, second mate of the barquentine Energy, fell overboard at Helensville, (Auckland), on Saturday and was drowned. The node body of a man named Edward Johnston was found in the Waitemata, near Point Chevalier (Auckland), on Sunday.. It is supposed he had been bathing. At the half-yearly examination of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board, James S. McLaren, of Auckland, and William Barkley, of Christchurch, passed successfully for registration as pharmaceutical chemists. The Governor and Lady Jervois leave "Wellington for Christchurch on Wednesday next. Proceedings on the divorce side of the Supreme Court have been instituted by the wife of a well-known business man in Wellington. The petitioner seeks for judicial separation on the ground of her husband’s cruelty. The case is that of Mulligan v. Mulligan. A suit of disolution of marriage is about to engage the attention of the Supreme Court in Wellington. The petitioner is Mary Jane Wright, wife of Henry Charles Clark Wright, accountant, and she prays for a divorce on the grounds of her husband’s cruelty and adultery. The petition sets forth that the parties were married at the Registry Office in Auckland, on the 3rd of August, 1875, the respondent then being employed as a commercial traveller ; that they resided in Auckland for some time, and than came to Wellington where they have resided ever since; that the issue of marriage has been two children, Reginald Clark Wright, aged S.vonra, and Elizabeth Minnie Wright, aged 3; 'hat during the year 1883, 1884, and 1885 the respondent treated her with great nnkindness and cruelty and frequently used offensive language towards her and abused her ; that in or about the month of July, 1884, and at divers times between then and the month of June, 1885, he committsd adultery with Mary Keeley, wife of M«ryTlios. Keeley, a fireman; that in and during the months of July, August, September, and October, 1885, the said Mary Keeley frequently visited him at his house in Wellington. The petitioner therefore seeks for a dissolution of marriage and Die custody of her children. The case comes on for hearing at the next Bitting of the Court, The Mont D’Or Goldmining Company finished washing with a total of 4260 z« of the value of £1620. The directors have declared a dividend of one shilling per •hare. At a private meeting of the shareholders of the National Insurance Company at Dunedin, it was resolved to ask the Directors to declare a dividend out of the reserve fund equal to the previous halfyear, and a deputation was appointed to wait on the Directors before the general meeting. On Saturday shot and shell practice was engaged in at Fort Resolution, Auckland, a target being fixed in the harbor, 1600 yards distant. Three of the shptß_ ricocheted to the Kchimarirna Industrial School buildings and two to the premises of Biddle, a settler, and one was found in the cliff. Providentially no one was hurt. Further practice has been stopped. The bight of the ahots was miles. Colonel Lyons went to investigate the matter, and six shots were brought back to Auckland. When Mr Hogan, master of the Industrial School, repott-d the affair hia statement was deemed incredible. It is stated that the appointment of Inspector of Lunatic Asylums which will be vacated by Dr Graham (who is leaving the colony in the course of a few months) has been offered to, and accepted by Professor Macgregor, of Dunedin. It is also understood that before Dr Grabham was appointed the previous Government were willing to offer the appointment to Dr Macgregor, if ha would have accepted it, but he declined. The Professor was formerly medical officer of the Lunatic Asylum at Dunedin, and has made the question of lunacy a specialty. The late J. Twigger, of Addington, who some months ago endowed the Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral Association with five acres of land, has left the bulk of his estate, sworn under £17,000, to the Old Men’s Home, the Lyttelton Orphanage, and the Female Refuge, His widow gets an annuity, aud £2,300 has been left in legacies to his doctor, servants, some friend# and the various benevolent institutions of Christchurch. The "Volunteer fancy fair at Christchurch closed last Saturday night after a most successful run. Though the expenses have been heavy, it is expected that a profit of over £SOO will be made.