TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2249, 20 March 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

United Press Association.

CumsicuuKcn, March 19. A man named John Jones committed suicide on board the Aorangi between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning. Deceased went to England a short time since, and came out in the steamer by. her last voyage, working his passage as carpenter's mate. Ho is known: at Lyttelton, and has two or three children in the Burnham Industrial School. It appears that ho had been absent from his ship for about a weekend returned yesterday, apparently suffering from the effects of a spree, and in low spirits. He was found in tho storo room in the forward part, of the steamer by the lamp trimmer, suspended down a small hatchway leading to thctajerdeck. The drop taken must have bill, about ten teet, The man was quite dead* James Hamilton was committed for trial to-diy oil a charge of obtaining wines, spirits, etc., to the value of £li4, from W. J. Taylor, inorcliiint, of ChJeU church, under false pretences. •■- ;- Oamaru, this day. .At the Supreme Court Mrs Crofhvaa acquitted on a charge of setting lire to her house with intent to dofraud. The libel case brought againat the Kov Seth Smith by a young man named Moore, a verdict wasgivon for defendant. Tho action arose out of a document sent to a committee of the Blue Ribbon Army stating that, tho prosecutor was in the; habit of frequenting brothels. Auckland, this day. Captain Corbott, J,P., who had' sen* teucod a man named Mulvauey to a lengthy term of inprisonment forattompt* ing to sot fire to Kirkwoods Hotol, Cambridge, was knocked down by Mulvauey on Thursday night. Mulvauey waa subsequently arrested and got two months. . -j The Bootmaker's Union hajnlaced in the hands of thef Masters' MtMomontof wages to be paid throughoWthe city, also a series of resolutions dealing with boy labor on lines accepted in the South. The manufacturers state the condition of trade will not admit of their conceding to the demand. A strike is eminent. W-\