TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1522, 7 December 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

About fifty! applications have been ‘heard in Dunedin by Majors Gudgeon ■ and Crowe, the commissioners appointed to hear the claims of old soldiers. Twenty of the applications were from . ' volunteers. ■ , The Art Society s Exhibition at Dunedin has closed after attracting considerable attention. Pictures to the value of £695 have been sold during the time ; the Exhibition was open. (Vf; A man named Thomas Steward, alias . McGregor, was arrested at Dunedin on board, the Manapouri, after vigorously opposing the police, on a charge of deserting his wife and six children at Wellington. He was brought up at the Police Court and remanded to Wellington. In the Divorce Court, Dunedin, pn Thursday, i^be(pe|je ; M}]Ji y£ Mills agtll Ferrier the decree for divorce was made absolute. The disputes at tho Borough Schools at Blenheim have culminated in the Committee calling upon the Board to separate the sexes in the bigher standards, and place the girls under an independent head mistress, on the ground that the present system, by which the upper boys and girls are taught together endangers the morals of the young, The?e disputes have lasted several years, one* mistress having been sent to the Lunatic Asylum. A peculiar sporting case came before Mr Justice Williams at Dunedin on Friday. While Langley, the bookmaker, was paying over £9O won in a bet on the New Zealand Cup, £42 of which was to go to Morrisom and £46 Ktyto fMillerj'a bailiff namedSßrown* money. The question was whether Langley had paid over 1 the sum or not. The judge decided'that £42 10s of the money belonged to ’Morrison, and was rightly seized by the bailiff, and that the balance seized should go to Miller. At a meeting of" lawn tennis delegates held at Auckland bn Fridiy‘ ? ’a letter was read from the Hawkes 1 Bay Club, containing a proposal that’a 1 fifty guinea cup be subscribed for by tbe different tennis, associations ip New Zealand, to be,competed for in singles for the championship of New Zealand, the cup to be’ held by the; winner for 'boe year, and to be the . property of any erie winning it three times. The secretary was instructed to write to the Hawkes Bay Club accepting tbe proposal and stating that tbe' v association wllfjoin io presenting, a cup for competition, and suggesting that the value of the cup bo reduced to £25, and a trophy bf* the value of £lO be given each year to the winner. ' ‘ At Auckland the body of a woman, 60 years of age,-was found floating off. Queen street wharf on Saturday morning. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, and has not been identified. It is understood that Inspector Bullen, ®f Nkpier, will shortly change stations with Inspector Acheson, of Nelson, Mary Beechey, aged 50, died at Christchurch on Friday evening rather suddenly,She had been drinking heavily lately. On Friday night she slept out in her garden. She was found about-3 Saturday, and was taken with fits shortly ,* afterwards, and’nevet recovered. At Waipawa a man named D. Harold Michaelspn, ’.sub-agent in the Govern- •' ment Insurance Department, and Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, and ;Marnages, took a whole box of “ Rough bii Rats ” poison, at one o’clock on Saturday. Hlternooo, and in spite of immediate medical attendance, died at six o’clock’ the same evening. There is ’no -dbiiibt : that it is case of suicide, and finkucial embarrassment is believed to be the • cause. • <IL • ' :,J ’