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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3742, 21 February 1891, Page 2

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OnitisTCHURCH, February 20. William Stoncy, commission agent, was committed for trial to-day on the charge of obtaining £BSO by false pietensces from Eliza Agnes Dixon. The evidence was that lie was entrusted with a section ot land to sell for £550, and sold it to for £9OO, converting £BSO to liis own use.

There are now six charges against nine persons for the criminal sittings. The Canterbury representatives at tlia Amateur Athletic and Meeting at Auckland were entertained at a smoke concert to-night by the Canterbury Athletic Club. Greymouth, February 20.

A cottage at the camp at Ahura was burnt this afternoon when the owner was absent. It was insured for a small amount in the South British. An enquiry will probably be held. The Zakanul SUMtor. Dunedin, February 20. Owing to heavy set in this afternoon, the opqPtir fete and sports in aid of tne Kakanui fund had to be postponed. It appears that the wives'bf those on board the Kakanui are far from satisfied with the search made by the Hinemoa, arid they have been trying to induce the Government to send a steamer again to search .the BountyJ and Antipodes Islands, and through Mr EarnshaWi they have telegraphed to the Premier on the subjeot. A- reply has been received that no goodjpurpose would be served by sending the Hinemoaagain, as the probability of any landing <• having been made on Bounty or Antipodes or Emerald islands is very ramote. Those concerned are still unsatisfied And point out that while there is even a remote probability of their .relatives, having effected a landing, they cannot rest content until all doubts are entirely set at rest. They even suggest that if the Government persist in decline ing to comply with their wißhes, a subscription should be raised to send a steamer; and they go as far as to say they, are content to sell all they have to assist iri having a ithorongh search made to set at rest every doubt as to the fate of those on board.

Tho Xffisainff So&ting PartyOiio of Them Found Drowsed. Auckland, February 20/ The body of Gordon Hale, one of the missing boating party, for which search parties were out, has been found on the beach at Wairoa South. Later. > The body recovered this morning is not that of Hale, but the body of another of the party, Lionel Whitney, a young man of 22 years, &rid son of Capt. Whitney, of the Colonial Ammunition Factory. The remains were found washed upon thefootahoro at Maraetai. . . .. ■> The young man Gordon John Hale, who was one of the missing boating party, was a son of the late Dr Hale, of Wairoa 1 South. fle%M thirty years of age, and lived s with his mother at Wairoa South/ Slsti&ffolsliod Visitors. Chbistghuboh, February 20. Archbishop Carr, of Victoria, Bishop Moore, of Ballarat, and Bishop Higgins, of Sydney, visited the Soman Cathoho Church this morning, and received from the Marist Brothers and tho Convent Schools. They afterwards visited Mount Magdala, and left\£n the Tarawera for Wellington, whero they will stay three days before going to Auokland.

The Hinistor of Vinos at irofcre.

New Plymouth, February 20.

The Minister of Mines and Inspector of Mines returned from Mokau last evening. Mr Seddon inspeoted all the coal mines, , going into the tunnel and thoroughly inspecting their workings. He waß favorably impressed with all he; Baw,-and the grand scenery en route was greatly admired. The. party leavei for . the South by the 4 o'clock train.

& Torrifclo End> The Wept Coast correspondent of the ' liyttelton Times' gives the following particulars of a ehooking suicide which was briefly referred to in a recent telegram:— One ot the most determined case? of suicide we have experienced occurred at Kumara, on Thursday, 29th January. A young man named Lennihan had recently arrived in that district.' \ from Goldsboroegb, having gone to work a share claim for a friend named Cbllins, who waß enjoying a trip < i t®?4.uesalia, Lennihan lived in Collih'a- cottage, and it was (hero . lie enacted the tragedy. It seems that he had worked in the claim 'during the morning, went home and had some dinner, changed his clothes as if to present s hotter appearance* and then set to work to get rid b£ his lifa. The means ' adopted .something on* usual. He got a; flask fullof powder, put a piece, of fuse into the neck, lighted the other end, and lay down on'his bed, putting the flask under his head, and awaited results. The mind at the time can oply be imagined. For many seoonds, ut not a minute or two, ha rgust have lain listening to tlinjrfqn as it spluttered away, bringing the fire closer to the flask and to his head, t Whatan; eternity those seconds must have seemed. Inch by inch the fuse was burnt. At lengttt came the supreme moment, The fire had reached the.neokofthe flask, A second or two more and then , Passers-by heard tho explosion, someone went to the cottage, " found the front door fastened, an entrance at the back, and found Lennihan lying on the bed just ' expiring, with unmistakeable Bignß in the side of his head of what had happened. The mattress had ignited but the flames were promptly snp» pressed. The deceased was not much mutiliated, and 'when covered over a soorohed mark on the wall was th» only sign of what had taken plac& As yet no one seems to know the couse. His mates say that he seemed of a gloomy temperament, I and subject to fits of melancholy; but whether ruch traits were constitutional or caused through some love affair no one knows. It is hard to find any other disturbing cause; he did not appear involved or embarrassed in anyway, and could not iiave been influenced through pecuniary troubles.