TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1546, 24 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A man named George has be? n drowned by the capsize of a cutter at Hollyer's Creek, Auckland. Professor Black, of Dunedin, to whom a number of the minerals obtained from the Red- Hills, Big Bay, were submitted for anilyflitf, states thai, two of the samples are specimens of the matrix of nickel alloy. This he considers an important discovery. . A sad boating accident occurred on -Fridayat the mouth of the Kirikiri river, Bay of Islands, resulting in the drowning of two boy* named HanseD, and ooe girl, "the daughter of Mr Montain. A search, party succeeded in recovering the bodies of two of the children. At an open air meeting of unemployed held at Auckland on baturday morning, a speaker named Wright made a, .violent attack on the Government for their." coldblooded and : white-livered action" with regard, to the existing distress.. He said 150 men working at Woorl Hill'were up to their; waists" in swamps. Mr Dargaville, EiH.R.s addressed s» meeting of unemployed on Saturday night in the City Hall; Auckland. There was a lively scene lasting nearly till eleven o'clock, Ultimately a resolution wasipassed confirming ;fhe previous, vote of passed by the unemployed updn : him. • Mr Albert William A ndrewis, of Christchurch,'who was' the sole* Kew Zealand candidate for the commission granted to New Zealand by the Imperial Government, has successfully passed the preecibed examination. ; It is said that all the other Australian candidates failed. Geo. Johnston, who lately committed suicideiat. Gisborne, enclosed a; sealed letter three weeks ago to a friend at Auckland with the request not to open it nil after his death. The letter has now been bperiedj and in it J ohriston states his deliberate intention to suicide, appoints executors, and gives £ the necessary directions as,tq his property. Deceased's life was insured "in the Government office for £1000: In his letter Johnston mistakeably' assumed that the insurance would-not,be paid in the event ofsuicide.j . - ..■.-;- ..•