Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2865, 5 April 1888, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Interesting Breach of Promise CaseWellington, Thursday. The breach of promise case, Harding v. Coinpton, was settled out of Court to-day. Mrs Harding was formerly landlady of the Union Hotel, and the respondent was a timber-merchant. . Not Good Enough. Wellington, Thursday. The Government have received through the Agent-General, 25 applications for the chief commissionership of railways, but after examination it was found that none camo up to the standard required. The majority of the applicants hold subordinate positions on English Railways, such as goods clerks, traffic managers, ets, None were received from America, Shocking attempted wife murder Dunedin, Thurday, A middle-aged man named George Child, painter, living in Stafford avenue, lias been arrested on a charge of attempting to murder his wife. He came home the worse for drink. His wife left him about midnight and went to bed, She was awakened by finding her husband fumbling about the bed, and when she noticed him, found he had a knife in his hand. He seized her by the head and attempted to drag the knife across her throat. She succceeded in seog&g the knife but not before he liapßtted a slight wound under thdKchin, In the struggle the blade came out of the handle.