TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2929, 20 June 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

ItiVJiRCAHGILL, Julie 19.

This afternoon, as Dr Galbraitli was passing along a street at North Invercargill, a passer-by saw a man named John Maloney, Inspector of Nuisances for the Borough, following the doctor with a double-barrelled gun. The doctor turned and spoke to Maloney, but what passed between them has not transpired, when Maloney raised the gun and deliberately fired at him. The doctor was severely wounded in the thigh, his leg from the hip to the knee being riddled with o heavy charge of shot. He fell to the ground, and Maloney walked away. The doctor was put into a passing trap and brought to his residence in town where several colleagues assembled and attended to his injuries. The doctor is an elderly man and is suffering from a shock to his system. The police went out to Maloney's house and found the gun with one barrel recently discharged. His family saidnothingof his whereabouts, but lie was found in a back yard, and arrested without resistance. On his way to the lock-up he talked inconsistently of outrages, supposed to be the outcome of an insane grudge against the medical profession. Dr. Galbraitli lias had 110 dealings with Maloney for years. The latter suffers from a chronic surgical disease, and about five years ago he sued Dr. Cotterill in the Supreme Court for alleged maltreatment. The action broke down, and the question of Maloney's sanity was afterwards raised, he having stated that lie would " wing" Dr Cotterill. Dr. Galbraitli, with the other medical men, declined to certify that he was insane, and Maloney seems to have harbored a grudge against him and the other doctors since. Although he has been a Borough official for some years, many have doubts as to his mental condition, Wednesday, John Maloney, who wounded Dr. Galbraitli by shooting him in the leg, was brought before the Resident Magistrate oil the charge of attemptting murder, and was remanded for eight days; Auckland, June l'J. Mr M. Niccol was appointed chairman of the Harbor Board to-day, vice W, 11 Waddell, deceased, The Board resolved to send a letter to Mrs Waddell, expressing sympathy and condolence,

A man named Emanuel Oliver was charged at the Police Court to-day with illegally pawning a gold watch, value £lO. Tiie accused had carried on business as the American Watch Repairing Company, and the watch in question had been left with him to repair. Seven other charges of a similar character are pending against the prisoner. The ease was remanded until Tuesday.

The Harbor Board have resolved to waive the right of exacting from the contractor the maintenance of the Calliope Dock for three months from the date of the final certificate, as it has been already in use, and the structure will therefore be at once taken over by the Board, The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board have decided that none of the charges made in respect to the death of the late Mrs Sharp at the Old Peoples Refuge have been substantiated.

Wellington, Wednesday,

At the Supreme Court this morning an application for a dissolution of marriage Thurston v Thurston was granted on the ground of the wife's adultery with one Fletcher.