TELEGRAPHIC HEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1499, 29 April 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC HEWS.

A master tailor at Napier named Cottrell committed suicide on Monday morning by taking carbolic acid. Business troubles are supposed to have been the cause of the act.

The smelting operations at the Champion Copper Mine (Nelson), are now proceeding with great success. The fire was ■it in the smelting furnace at eleven on Saturday morning, and before three in the afternoon about a ton of metal had flowed from the furnace. Everything is working satisfatorily. >

At the Christchurch races on Monday Hobbs and Goodwin’s totalisators were fairly well patronised, the sum of £8360 in the aggregate being put through the two machines. On Tuesday £6BOO was put through the totalisators.

McCormick, who was injured at Lawerence by a fall of earth, died on Sunday. He leaves a wife and five children.

The encampment at Wanganui was attended by 1300 volunteers.

A temperance, demonstration was held in Hagley Paik, Christchurch, on Monday in connection with ilt-.- Canterbury Band of Hope Union. About 1500 children were present, and with other visiters the gathering in the park amounted 10 about 4000 persons. The body of a man named John O’Brien has been found in the harbor at Auckland.

The body of a woman..namecL. Jene Aitken, the wife of an old settler, was found floating in the harbor at Wellington on Tuesday morning. She was of weak intellect, and wandered from home on Monday. She is supposed to have fallen in.

The Premier left for Nelson on Tuesday evening. Mr Ballanco is expected to return to Wellington from the North on Friday.

A man named Marriott, a tailor, was found dead on Tuesday afternoon in a closet, at Wellington. Th cause of tbe death is unknown. The ferns sent home from New Zealand for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition have arrived there in good coudl! :