LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1863, 14 June 1884, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT]

1 ; ' The Doric. Auckland, Friday Night. Tiid Doric has been signalled.

Serious Acciient. Mr Owen Mcl4oe's sou injured his knee to such an extent that tetanus set in, and hi& recovery is cle&paive 1 of.

Assault. Arthur Dewaon was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment for bin tally boating his son with a lope till blood ap ncared.

Orange .Culture. With the object of fosteiim,' the cultivation of the oraujro in Auckland, the Government ha* agtecd. to defray the cost of obtaining a lepoit on oiangu cul tiu'e in New South Wales. Mr Alderton, Whangaroi, olFeied to go and mako the leport.

Missing CrewUp to die 29th May, when the brigantine Oamaru left R tratonga, nothing had been heard of the missing boat and crew of the abandoned barque Bon (Ton.

The Bigamy Case. The bigamy case, in which Edith E. Worman was charged with marrying William Brinsclcn, her former husband beiug then and still alive, has been remanded until Monday morning, Mr Hesketh was for the defence. Kail w<is

enlarged. The Unemployed. The agitation of the unemployed seems to have 'been suddenly alUyod by satisfactoiy provision of wotk. Only two applicants for iurthe. employment presented themselves at the city council o(Hce this morning, ou>' ot them being a cleik, Ptob.ibly Messrs i''aulder and Kirby have taken on the bulk of those who were seeking worK. Two other contracts weic let this (Homing to Conwll and Regan, who btated that they could employ twenty-five men.

The Late Suicide Case. There is eveiy reason to believe that the suicide of Viekett was caused by financial embarrassment Detective Hughes made an examination of de cescd's ofh'oe, to-daj, bat found nothing concerning the intention of deceabed to make away with himt>eli Ifc was cleaily evident, from documents, that he was veiy much onibairas el.e 1 . Amongst othir papeis found were dishonoured cherries fiven by himself, notice from the bank of a tefu&.il of ovcidiaft, notice to pay o\eidraft, &c. It is lepoitecl that he owed a lot ot money. His statement that men weie 'ifter him is> accounted for by the follow ing theory : He had been i entrusted with the sale of Impel ial shai'e«, and a dividend m the mine was dcelaied. There are no transfers to b n found, and it hbelicxcd that he has disposed of the felures, and was unable to account for proceeds, and ieaicd tlie application tor dividends He held shaies in ti ust for a large number of citizens, and a local jeweller loses fully £500. The inquest is still pioccedmg.

Indecent AssaultCaptain Scotland, of the buque Cius.iilcr, was eh ugcd at the Police Couit to-day with indecently assaulting Maiy Busby on the passage out fiotn England. The cvuloiuc was to the eileet that Captain Scotland had previously, while on the poop, made use of indecent e\ pies sions which she lesuuted, and that he subsequently assaulted her in the cabin while fclie wa-b plaung the piano. Mioitly afterwaids he was, in the cibin of the giil Oaksford, who was lying thue very ill, when he called complainant into the room, and putting his aniH aiound her waist pulled her down upon the end oi the gul OaUsfoid's bunk. Bofoie, licucvei, he could clteet his pin pose, the ghl managed to escape fiom him This is the first ehaige of as:ault made against the cap tain. The gni Oakskucl was seuously ill at tiie ti.ne, and indeed all the passengeio thouKht she was about to die, and a& the ship not having the necessary nuinbct of passengeit. had not a suigcon, the captain poifonned all oiucos ot at tendance to the sick and dispensed medicines, assisted by the stewaid, Budges, who had been employed in an hospital at Home. Amongst his otliei duties the captain commenced the voyage auspiciously by reading prayers every Sunday, but in the conisc of the voyage that piactice was chopped. It was in pursuance of his medical duties that lie was in the cabin with Miss Oaksford, when he called Miss Busby. The former gal conoborates complainant's statements, &o far as seeing him push Miss B.isby down, and then feeling the weight of both ot them on her legs. The case is ex citing much interest.