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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 163, 19 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PER KRESS AGENCY. WELLINGTON. Sunday, Anderson, editor of Chronicle, was committed for trial on Saturday. The cross action against Easby was adjourned till Tuesday, Hunter and Hutehison were nominated for the Mayoralty. CHRISTCHURCH. Sunday. J. Loes, of Lecston, runhokler and merchant, attempted suicide by shooting himself with a breecli-loading gnu ill his private office on Saturday. The bullet glanced oft his cheek. His reasons for attempted suicide arc said to be temporary monetary embarras' ment, AUCKLAND. Friday. Mr Henry Hardington, formerly a coach proprietor, met with an accident the other night at Penrose station, through dismounting from a train before it stopped. He was seriously hurt in the arm and hand. Mr Hardington lias complained to the authorities that the railway officers calling on the passengers to change train before the latter stopped, led to the accident. At Mercury Bay a .settler named Iloyle attempted to take away bis life by taking poison, Ho procured an ounce of arsenic at a chemist's, and swallowed the half. He was milking for a watorhole at the Tiki when lie was first seen. NAPIER. Friday. At the incpie&t on llio body of Hiss Tatliani this morning, thv verdict returned was " found drowned."

The projected Clive Grange estate and railway is withdrawn. The interim secretary, Mv M. R. Miller states, in announcing the withdrawal, that it lias been decided by the provisional directors to relieve applicants for shares up to the present date from all responsibility in respect of their applications, the withdrawal of the project having been arrived at after mature consideration, and with a view to protect the interests of all parties concerned during the present unfavorable condition of monetary affairs in the colony.

Judgment for £B7 odd was given this morning in the Resident Magistrate's Court against Mr John Slicelian, at the suit of the Bank of Australasia on a promissory note. CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, With regard to the tclogram on commercial matters in Chrlstchuvcli, which was hotly condemned at yesterday's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on the supposition that it had been sent by the Press Agency and published in the Dunedin Herald, it appears that the Chamber was altogether misinformed. Me Cass, who brought the matter forward, has admitted, on being shorn a message appearing in the Otago Daily Times of April 23, from its Christolmreh correspondent, that that was the

offensive telegram lo iiuioii lie referred. The aspersions on tlio Press Agency and the Morning Herald were therefore utterly unjustifiable. The body picked up in the Avon on Thursday has been identified by Mr Stewart, pawn ■broker, as being that of a laborer named King, who pawned a vest with him on the 13th of this month, King was last in the employ of Sir Cracioft Wilson. An inquest will bo held to-morrow.

At a meeting of gentlemen to consider the advisability of urging on the establishment of a school ftrafeaf anil dumb persons the following resolution wad carried unanimously That this meeting is of opinion that an institution for deaf and dumb mutes should be established as soon as pos-

sible, and as a Government institution." The chairman was authorised to communicate the resolution to the Government.

Jacob Vogt has been committed for tipl for forging and uttering a promissory note. The body of tho man found in the river is not yet identified. The inquest has been deferred till to-morrow at the request of the police. 10 p.m, Ik the late drowning case it now appears that Stewart was wrong in supposing it to be a mad named King who was drowned, The body has sinee been identified as that of John Goodwin, a farmer at Papanui, who left his home on Wednesday last. A person named Potts, who was working on the farm, came to town yesterday and recognised his

master. The clothes on the body wero those Goodwin wore on leaving home. TIMARU. Friday. The inquest on the body of William Payne, who died from injuries received in a boat accident on the beach, was held to-day, and a verdict of accidental death returned; a rider was added censuring the keeper of the landing service for leaving the boat on the beach against which deceased was crushed,

The remains of Win. 11. Ostler, who was found dead in his bed at his residence, Benshon Station, McKenzie country, last Mon-, day morning, were brought into town to-day,' and a post mortem examination showed that deceased had died from the rupture of a blood vessel close to the heart, and the verdict of the coroner's jury was in accordance with the medical testimony.

Edward Hart, who was found on the beach exhausted from loss of blood a few days ago, still lives, but is in a very precarious condition. DUNEDIN. Friday. In reference to what was said regarding the Dunedin Morning Herald at the meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, it may be said that the Herald gives special care to commercial matters, and that so far from publishing sensational and unjustifiable statements, it only the other day called attention to the reprehensible action of some New Zealand papers in publishing exaggerated reports of commercial affairs.