Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3182, 17 April 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

The Maxim Gun. DuNEDiN, April 16. A large orowd attended at tho St, Clair battery to-day to witness atrial of the Maxim gun, including most of the Volunteer officers of the district. Major-General Strange oxplaiued the mechanism of the gun, and Major .Uoring fired a number of shots seaward, The falling of the shots in the water was plainly seen, and an idea formed of tho destructive qualities of the weapon, aud how hopeless it would be for any body of men to. advance against the fire. It is like a shower of hail completely under the control of the person at the gun. A few shots were then fired at a target to show its nccuracy, and a dummy figure was completely riddletL Afterward several ladies were asked to fire out of the gun to ■ show that an expert was not'required.- Most of those who attended had heard and knewsomething of the Maxim gun, but even these • were astonished at the work it performed.

Sir Robert Stgut on EducationInvehcahgill, April 1(5. At the opening of the new ohemical leoture hall at the High School this morning, Sir K, Stout delivered an address on education, the general tenor of bis remarks being that the educational system of the Colony was not complete till the poorest children in it had access to the High School, Masonic- '■''•'• . .. Gbeyjioutu, Wednesday. At a largo meeting of mombors of the .Masonic Lodge, E'O., the proposition to form; a Grand Lqdge of New Zealand was unanimously jsjetfgi},' . ■■".•'.'.• ;.■•'. • : *-..

■ ; -Found Dead. / ;;■ .Napibb, April 16. : ; '. A woman named Greenwood, wife of a bailiff here, was found dead in bedthis evening. She was suffering from .drink,,and lay down on her bed, She took some tea at 6 o'clock, and at 7 she was ■: found dead. She had emptied a bottle of aconite lotion; it is believed in mistake for spirits. Fatal Stabbing Case. Auckland, April 10. The woman Mary Ann Wilson, recently Btabbed at Arch Hill, died this'nioming in the Hospital. She had just given her deposition when she expired. In this evidence she stated that it waß Louis Paget, with whom she had lived, who stabbed her, She deposed that on the night of the 6th she and Paget left Auckland for Waikomiti,'eight miles distant, where they resided; Paget was drunk, and when they got to Arch Hill, two miles out of town, they sat down to rest, It was at this time after 11 o'clock. Wilson fell asleep, and awoke to find Paget over her with a knife in his hand, and she

struggled to prevent him from cutting her throat, and he stabbed her in the breast. The woman fainted, and when she revived in the early morning she walked with Paget to the Hospital. She h'ad previously refused to state who .it was that had inflicted the wound, because Paget had asked her not to tell, Sinoe- his incarceration, however, Paget wrote a letter,' in' which-he states that he had no recolleotion of stabbing the woman, and if he did so it must have been accidental,