TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1970, 16 November 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A fatal accident happened to a man nnmed Joseph Lucy, a miner, at Kumaru on Thursday. A small slip forced him up agiinet a sharp-edged atone, and broke his skull. He died whilst being taken to the hospital. The Court of Inquiry at Lyttelton into the damage dona to the baique Otago at Rea on the 24th August (when two lives were lost) gave its verdict on Thine lay, exonerating Captain Norman from blame nnd from the charge of drinking juut before or after the accident, and censuring the chief mate, Edward White, for not supporting the captain al the time as he should have done. The Court held that the vessel was badly found, and should not have been passed at riyjney as fit to go to sea. A little boy named Charles H. Gallagher was found drown«d in the harbor at Auckland on Wednesday. News by the steamer Wainui H«yß that the island of Totofa, in the Haapii Group, is in an active condition of eruption. Severe shocks of earthquake have been folt at the town of Neifk, tho port of Haapii. A village settler at Rawene, near Hokiangn, named Chailea Badman, has been missing for 8 >me days. Hia clothes l.ave been found on the bank of the creek, and it is surmised that he has been drowned. A female child, two and a-half years old, daughter of Mr J. Johnstone, Sydenham, was drowi ed iu a well sink at ihe b'»ck of his house on Monday. The cover of the sink had been taken off by M>B Johnstone for the purpose or getting some water, and while she was absent tho child went to tho sink and must have fallen in. The sink is 18in. square, and about the i same depth. Mrs Johnstone discovered the child in the sink and took it out, but all! attempts to restore animation were without avail. In giviog judgment in lli9 recent stubbing cane at Ohrietehurch, in which Geo. Duncan was charged with stabbing John Thomas iD a gambling dispute, tho presiding magistrate said :—" We have thought the ciso carefoHy over, and we have come to the conclusion that Duncan whs defending himself against tho assault of a dangerous an! bad character, and we, therefore, dismiss the case." The decision was hailed withupplauße by the spectators gat'here'l in the Court. Dr Wilkin*, of Auckland, has just conoluded an exhaustive series of experiments vritb the I Brown-Sequard elixir. The remedy was tried both by moans of hypodermic injection and emulsion, but in not a aiDg'o instance was the slightest improvement noticed by either patient or himself. The doctor even experimented upon himself, but found no appreoiablo differehoe. He think? the snoosss of the experiments at other plaoei has been due to imagination on the part of the patients. He subsequently experimented with, el.eotrieity, galvanise®, faradism, and other ' therapeutic agen's, on the same patients, with considerable sucoeis. ,