TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1483, 14 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Press Association,

Auckland, this day.

The Mercury Bay sawmills are lighted with eloctric light. The Brush light is used, and is running night and day.

Redmond and Walsh hav received telegrams from the West Coast and other parts of the colony, welcoming them on their mission, and informing them that arrangements are being made for their reception, Hawera, Friday.

A narrow escape from a fatal accident to a survey party occurred yesterday. Alfred Atkinson (son of die member for Egmorit) wasin'chargo of the party in tho bush, when a dead limb fell from a' tree, knocking off Atkinson's hat, stunning and bruising a man named Downey, and breaking the thigh of a man named Thomas Harrison. The accident happened at three, but the party did not reach here till past midnight.

Dunedin, this day,

A lad named McCrae was drowned in a river at Kelso last night. The elder brother jumped in after him, and was rescued with difficulty. At the October sittings of the Supreme Court Margaret Laverty seeks a judicial separation from Charles Laverty. She alleges that on the night of her marriage, in August, 1881, her husband threatened to desert her, grossly abused her, and offered her £IOO if she would desert him, three days afterwards. He threatened to shoot her, presented a loaded gun at her, which his brother discharged, fearing blood would be spilt. Owing to further threats, she fled from his house, and since then they have been living apart.