TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1823, 1 December 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A young woman named Louisa Emily Edwards was drowned on Tuesday afternoon, irv the river at Wairoa Gorge, Nelson, while bathing with a companion, Mias Best. The latter got out of her depth, and called for assistance. Miss Edwards attempted to rescue her, and was drowned. Miss Beat got out of the hole and went for assistance, but Miss Edwards was dead when help arrived. At the inquest a verdict of “ accidental death ” was returned.

On Wednesday morning Mr Henry Metherall, proprietor of the Ambeiley flax mills, got his legs entangled in the machinery while shifting the belling. Tlie flesh was torn off his right leg, which wrs broken at the ankle. His left leg was broken above the knee. His right leg was amputated. He sank and died at 2 o’clock. The Auckland Charitable Aid Board sued the Wanganui Charitable Aid Board on Thursday, for the sum of £ll, for the maintenance in .Auckland of a man named Morris. The man lived at Wanganui for five years, but the district in April and went to Napier where he remained for a week and received relief. He then came to Auckland, arriving here on the 29th April, and was admitted to the refuge. The defence was that Morris had not resided in Wanganui for the' six months immediately preceding his entry into the Auckland district, and that he had stayed in Napier, and that under section 74 of the Act the defendants were not liable. His Worship reserved judgment. At the inquest on the body of the man Lincoln, who committed suicide at Te Aroha by jumping into the Kaihou river, the jury expressed their indignation at the “inhumanity and indifference displayed by persons at work at the adjacent faxmill, who, with the exception of Ayland and Campbell, rendered not the slightest assistance in the endeavour to rescue deceased.*

Mr Alfred Shepherd, of Karangahape, Auckland, met with a serious accident on Wednesday evening by being thrown from his horse near Paeora while returning home. Concussion of the spine and brain is feared. A man named James McDonald was brought up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, on Thursday on suspicion of h»ving set fire to the Cathoiic church at Jerusalem, up the Wanganui river.

A difficulty has arisen between the Weliugton butchers and thefrozen meat company because of the scale fixed by the Butchers’ Association in order to put a stop to unft prrfi able competition. The company claim that the scale is too high, and that the sale of their prime meat is, therefore, interfered with, and they propose to open retail shops. It is understood that Sir Harry Atkinson is w'llmg to do anything to help the Agnews out of their difficulty provided that they return to their land in Otago, or at any rate leave Wellington. The Governors on Wednesday afternoon presented the certificates to the successful candidates in the Wellington musioexaminatiou held under the auspices of Trinity College, London. There were fifty-two candidates in all passed, out of about seventy entries, all being from Wellington, with the exception of a few from Dunedin, it was stated that arrangsmenta were being made to extend the examinations over the whole of the colony. The infant son of Mr James Hamilton, a farmer near Winton, Southland, was suffocated by over balancing in a small tub in which was about three inches of water in which the child’s mouth was immersed.

Murray was committed for trial at Lyttelton on Thursday on charges of breaking into the Key. J. Hdl’s, H irvoy s, Palmer's, and Taylor’s premises.