TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 20 November 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

| UNITED PRESS AS3OUUTIONI, J THE VINCENT COIMY.-A ' DEFAULTING SECRETARY./ Domedis, November ,19.. The auditing of the accountu of the' Vincent County has resulted in the discovery of a deficit of about £4OO. The clerk, Mr George Clark, has been suspended, and it is understood that he admits that he has appropriated the money, His.. acoounts are now being carefully gone through by the Government auditor. This discovery further involves the affairs of this unfortunate county, tho struggles for the chairmanship of whioh have become so notorious by dead-lock meetings and Supreme Court proceedings.

FATAL ACCIDENT. : : - DEATH OF MR SEATON, M.H.R. " ! - ; Donedin, Novomber 18. Mr. Seaton, member for the Peninsula, was thrown out of his buggy in Hope-street -andf ■"■!" killed. Deceased had just previously pur- 1 chased the horse ho was driving, November 19, The deplorable fatal accident yesterday to!'" Mr Seatori, M.H.R. has occasioned much sorrow here. Mr Seaton, who lived some • miles out' o( town on the Peuinsula, had bought a new buggy horse at the public sale, yards in the morning, and was driving about naif-past two, up Princes-street. It took fright and bolted up Stafford-street, eventually running the trap against a lamp-post in Hope-street.. The collision freed the horse from the trap, out of which Mr Seaton seems to have been pulled'(probably by the reins), and he was dragged a little distance down the channelling. Two constables picked him up in an insonsible state. He was bleeding freely, and was taken to a. • neighboring notel, where it was found by — the medical man attending him that his skull was badly fractured. He died within a minute or two of the accident, .., - ■ Mr Seaton was an old settler in the pro--vince, and had Bat in the Provincial Council, and also for several sessions in the General Assembly, and bad, at onetime, gone Home as emigration agent. At the' last general election he was returned after a contest, for the Peninsula, and on Tuesday evening next' : his constituents intended entertaining hiin > at a banquet. :

AN AUCKUND MERCHANT HOBBE-' WHIPPED. Auckland, Novembe: 18. Mr 0.0. McMillan, nephew of Sir William MoArthur, and managing partner iu the firm of Mo Arthur and Co, here, was severely horsewhipped in Queen-street to-day by a man named Cornwall, who has been engaged in the island trad", and whom, it is stated, the firm sold up, . November 19.. The following are the particulars of the assault which occurred on Saturday: At 10 o'clock 0. C. MoMillan, senior partner in the firm of MoArthur and Co,, was walking down .Queen-street, and had reached tha. verandah of Knight (the fruiterer's) premi, ses, at the upper comer of tho Thoatro Royal block, when he was assaulted by a man with a horsewhip, who proceodod to adminiator vigorous and resounding blows about. MoMiUan's body. Aftor sevoral sharp cuts, tho' assailant tripped McMillan up, and ho fell on the pavement, the blows from the riding whip still falling fast and furiously on his head and neck, until T.Phillips, a compositor, rushing in, with another passerby," puta stop to the affray. It was then ascertained that the person who committed the assault was Mr Cornwall, a trader, well known at Samoa and throughout tho. South Sea Islands. Upon rising MoMillan informed tho people standing by thatthe.isiiult had arisen out of business transaction connected with the Island trade, while Cornwall, on receiving back his whip from Fhiilip), who had wrenohed it from his hand, remarked that if ho only knew tho facts he would havo assisted instead of, stopped the horsewhipping. Cornwall then walked away, while ; McMillan, aftor vainly looking round for a policeman, wnlltod back to the warehouse to removo the dust from his clothes, aud afterwards went round to the police station, with the object of laying an information. One cut of the whip had left an mflamod mark across his face, and lie was breathless with the violence of tho assault. The whip used was an ordinary riding whip, and the blows were struck with the thin epd. Thero does, not appear tp have been any altercation whatever prior to the assault, but whether it wai a premeditated one, and Cornwall had quietly waited the appearance of his viotim, or was committed on the spur of the Moment, is not known. Cornwall arrived here from Fiji a month ago by the s.s. Taiaroa, whore he had a law case with Mo Arthur, which he won. His object iu coming hero was to arrange alleged injuries, recoived at the hands of that firm. It is stated that Governor DesVoeux, of Fiji, .has recently gone to Samoa in H.M.B. Diamond to investigate certain allegations arising out of the transactions of Cornwall and this firm, Cornwall was in tho afternoon arrested on warrant for the assault, but was immediately released on bail. .Messrs t Linabury and Fenton, mercbauts, of this city, being securities.