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

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2244, 25 November 1886, Page 2

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

Sudden Death. Au'KLWD, Wednesday. iNM'KCrOK Thomson received intelligence this afternoon of the sudden doath of Mis McKhoy, wife of T. C. McElroy, J.l'., Meiee.r. She was yesteiday evening found by one of her .sons lying dead on the floor. Unlawful Wounding. A woman named Matilda Jones, alia* Hetheudge, was committed for tn.il at the l'olice Coiut to-day on a ehaige of unlawfully wounding a man named I'eter Salmon by stiiLing him on the head with an lion l>.ir. S.ilmon and the woman ha\e been living at the Sunnysido gumtield*, near Helensville, for the last thiee months. Last Satutdav Salmon went home, and lying down in his loom fell a-leep. Soon aftei anotliL't g:undigger named Odium, who Ihes .1 few y.ud* distance heard bounds proceeding fiom Salmon's whare, as if somebody was being beaten, and on going there *a\\ the woman sti iking Salmon on the he id with a gum-spear. He.it once disanood 'km, and with the assistance of a man named Lyon->, took Salmon outride, and washed the blood fiom his hair. A (luutei of ,in limn elapsed befoie he lecowied consciousness. Subsequently Matild i Joiu 1 * \va- heatd to e\pic^> re^jet that *he had not done for him. The ptis mer w.is committed for trial. Strike at the Tunnel Works. The men employed on the Porotorau Tunnel woik>, on the Main Tiunk Railway, have been indulging in a They g<.t !>•> (>d per day and ate charged L'">s a week foi board, but they b >ldly struck out for 10i a day, with tucker at the i.ite of t'l a week. Fie-.li men writ* pot to leplace the *ti iker*. Ten shilling-, a d.iy is now the luhnir watre at the tunnel. The Hou. P. Buckley. The Hon. I*, li.ickley is m town. He s,>euis deh^htei with his trip to Te Aroha, aiu\ is t^ieatly hii|»ies*ed with it-> pio>pivt>, both a> a centio of settlement and as a hi>tclass sanatorium, and he seems disposed to assist in its progress to the b'jst of his ability. The Asylum Embroglio. Regarding the asylum embio<rlio, Mr Buckley states that he had in \ estimated the matter, and that he had suspended indgmont until the letuin fiom the Aioh.i of the Inspector General, ])i. Mc(tiegor, with whom he deciles to confer. He saw no ditHculty in the way of putting things at the asylum upon a propel footing, and in thn connection he added: "\mi may depend upon it that we shall >»tand no more nonsense. At the same tune 1 have no hesitation in saving that the matter has caused me a great deal of trouble.'' Meeting of CreditorsAt a meeting of (Jreenwood'.s cieditoi.s the valuator of the estate icported : 1 ha\e gone caiefully into the matter of the position and value of the unencumbered propet ties in the estate, and am of opinion that with one or two exceptions those properties aie eneumbeied t» their full \alue. Some aie quite unsaleable until two ot inoie of other propeities ha\e been realised, and e\en then 1 doubt if there would be anything to sail. In my opinion the only pioperties that could be sold are the Ahipara property, a Symonds-street lease-hold, and the Wild Missoi ii battery. The assignee stated that he had received an otter of €120 to render the estate, and this it was decided to recommend the assignee to accept.