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Temuka Leader, Issue 1773, 7 August 1888, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

The August oivjl sittings dt the Supreme Court commenced at Auckland yesterday morning. 1 At the Auckland Police Court on Friday a mao' named Harry Se&brook was fined £5 and costs for disturbing a Salvation Army service at Drury Flat recently. At an extraordinary general meeting of the Auckland Land Settlement Company on Saturday, arssolntion we paa-ed that the Company be voluntarily wound up, and George S. Kiaaling and J. B. W byte were appointed liquidators at a remuneration of £IOO each. At the poll of the Onebunga ratepayers on Saturday on the Council’s proposal to borrow £2OOO additional to complete the waterworks, the result was a tejec'ion of the proposal. This is the i' - ird time the poll has failed, and it is expected tbe Mayor and Councillors will resign in consequence. ; Rose McCaffery, a domestic servant at Burns’s hotel, Auckland, was severely burned on Saturday through her drees catching fire whilst employed in the kitchen preparing the dinner. She is badly burned about the legs. The flames were extinguished by Miss Ryan, who, whilst doing so, was - attacked by the house dog, which in the excitement of the moment sprang at her and seized her dress in Hie teeth. ' The dog, however, war won driven away. •At the iiquest on J. Bair Brown, Wainku, Auckland, Dr Dalziel, who made the poat mortem examination, deposed that the cause of death was Chronic Alcoholism. The jury returned a verdict to that effect, adding that they ware of opinion a medical man should have been called iu, and that measures should have been taken to prevent the deceased from the excessive use of alcohol. The Hoo. T. Fergus'met with an awkward accident on Saturday afternoon. He /rap in the bath room at Bellamy’s when ttej»ppenad to throw up his right hand, end be sharply struck the gas globe. Ihe glass inflicted a deep cut on the back of tbebtnd near the wrist. Dr Pollen was in the building at the time and applied a tourniquet, which stopped the bleeding. Except 'that he lost a good deal of blood . aid will be unable to use his hand for tome lime, Mr Fergus did not sustain any serious injury. A seriiiiiH accident happened to a man named William Greenfield, plasterer, at Wellington, Siturdsy evening. About 6.20 he was crossing the road, when he wis knocked down by a horse attached to a tram car, which had just turned the ’ corner. The injured man, who was in an insensible condition, was taken to the hospi'al. He recovered consciousness some time after, bat It is thought his injuries are of rather a serious nature. A public trial of the electric lighting system was made in Broadway, Retfton, on Saturday night. A large arc lamp was suspended in the street at seven p.m., the machinery was set in motion, and f be powerful light diffused itself all over the town, illuminating the hills, and giving u mbM weird aspect to the whole sceoe. The light was somewhat unsteady at first, but after an hour or so a more even current was maintained* Inside the Oddfellows’ Hall twenty or thirty 16 candle power lamps, with variously shaped and colored shades, were brilliantly lighted, and made up a roost dszz'ing scene. The light was much admired, and was perfectly steady. /The trial is considered eminently successful; and yesterday the work of connecting Cfhe bouses with ttie mains was commenced.