TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3527, 4 June 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(united press association)

Auckland, Juuo o

A yonnpf girl named Ainv Emily Hudson, 18 years of igc, committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam in a house where she wis staying on a visit to her grand parents at Wark(vortl). From the circumstances it is concluded the deceased was suffering from religious mania, The Government liavo instructed Dr Gindere, of Rotorua, to visit Tokoanu and report upon the leprosy said to exist amongst tho Maoris there,'

About, thirty volumes of books, some o£ them very rare, comprise the latest gift made yesterday by Sir George Grey to the Public Library.

A labouring man named John Millar dropped dead yesterday at Port Albert.

A subscription of- L2O has been sent by Messrs Wirth to tho Mayor of Sydney for the Bourke relief fund. CnniSTcnuncH, Juno 3.

Mr Justica Dennißton . to-day grunted an order to compel Mrs White wife of Joseph White, sentenced to n term ot imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy to pay to the Official Aesigneo L2OO given her by White before he attempted to abscond, A. special meeting of the Diocesan Synod was opened this afternoon to consider tlio subject of paying property tax on the English loan, bishop Julius presided, and urged tho Synod to agree to promote a Bill in Parliament authorising the payment of tho arrears of. the tax, intorest and tho cost thereon, and of the future tax out of the Church estates. The report of the Church Property Trustees recommended a similar course, and a notico of motion for carrying it into effect was given, At the monthly mooting of the Tailoresses Union it was. reported that tho membership now totalled 1042, During tho year tho Union had contributed about £IOO as assistance to other Unions where a difficulty hud occurred. It was decided to loyally support: the early closing movement. Mr Pinkerton was reelected president. At the annual meeting of tho Tailors' and Tailoresses' Union tonight, F S Parkes was re-elected president, Dunedin, Juno 3. At the Supremo Court, in tho case of Thomas Barrett, charged with attempted murder, found tho accused guilty. Ho was sentenced to 10 years, penal servitude. The caso was one in which an old man named Wood, who had previously been.on bad terms with Barrett, was assaulted on liis way homo ono dark night and beaten very severely, and his horse and dray backed ovor a precipico, falling 20ft, the horse having his back broken, Wood managed to crawl •to the schoolliouso, whero ho remained all night, and for some time his life was despaired of. Barrett left the Court protesting his innocence. Emma Parnell was found guilty of larceny and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners havo passed resolutions to support early closing, and to patronise only those places where the principle is adopted, There is some probability of the Cabmen's Union purchasing the cabmen's shelter, and asking permission to place it on ono of the stands,