TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 16, 16 May 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

• •% ■ [BY ELECTRIO TELEGRAPH.] [pbb pbess association.] Dunedin, May 15. An inquest waa held at the Lunatic Asylum concerning th,e death of John Bowers. Deceased waa received, at the Dunedin Hospital a few days ago. After undergoing treatment there for

four days, he was, on the certificate of Drs Burn and Coughtily, sent to the Asylum as a Lunatic. It was very cold on th,e day he was removed, the conveyance used being an open express. According to the evidence of Professor M'Gregor, when Bowers arrived at the Asylum be was in a dying state with typhoid fever, and died after lingering a couple of days. Much interest was taken in the case by the medical men, seven being present at the inquest. The jury gave a verdict •' That deceased died from typhoid fever," and at first intimated their in» tention of adding a rider condemnatory of the carlessness in removing deceased in an open express on a cold, dty. At the inquest on Clark, yesterday, I a verdict of accidental death was recorded- The jury added a rider, blaming the Government for supplying an unsafe and uusuitable engine and trucks to tbe contractor. Auckland, May 15 The brigantine Helena has arrived from Tonga and Samoa, About March 20th, the May Queen was at i Kua. Having taken on board a cargo of sheep, a hurricane came on suddenly, and the vess.e.l was lost sight of, and nothing has been seen or heard of ber since, although the man-of-war Sappho and King of Tonga, have used every effort to trace her. The hurricane lasted twentyfonr hours, and destroyed on Tongatabou and Kippel Islands, over one thousand houses and sixteen churches were blown down. It is generally believed that the -May Queen is lost with all hands, Captain Menzies, late chief officer of 'the Countess of Kiutore was in command, and the following were known to be on board : — G. Bullock, salesman for Owen and, Graham, of Auckland j, George Owen, junior, with mate and crew of four Kanakas. Mrs Menzies had landedjat Samoa. The ketch, Pearl, during the hurricane was thrown high and dry on a reef, at Tonga, bu,t was got off with only slight iujury. A deputation of Samoan chiefs has gone lo Fiji, to claim British protection for Samoa, where t\U troubles are now at an end.