TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6092, 19 August 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(Per Usited Pkess Association.)

Auckland, August 18 :h. Ihe Buicido of Arthur Craig at Churcail was a very determined one. About half-past! j'2 on Monday tnniniiig the neighbours wer f ! la'armed by ihe Boreaming of tto dsceaaed'ej yourg children uud bn akria of fire. Oii i entering the houoe they found that Craig had : tied hid fees to a Colonial sofa on which he was j lying, and had set firo to a qu mti'.y of tow hi had collected upon him. They tiled to pull him i I from the couch, but ha rosis-.ad Ktrongly, hold ; ling the wooden bars at his head, so that they! | iroke away with him. He was then got from' I ihe burning couch and laid on the fl >or, whict. i ii.s even charred where he lay. Oa>g died at 9> ! j'ulock on Monday morning, before Dr Edgelow j tarrived. The deceasad was a widower, having' a married daughtfr liviug in Auckland, and j fi.co'.liar daughter, 17 veara old, living in Bervice. \ Severul younger children lived with him in hit I home. i^evoral gentlemen connected with the Com pany formed in Melbourne to work the White Island sulphur ore are now inspecting the island i tor the bonefit of tha shareholders. j

Mr De Lias suss Cardan for LSO damages h the Ktttideut Magistrate's Court for breach of agreement.

William White is missing at Tairua, in the bush. The police and settlers are pearoaing. Adam Mooro, aged 63, nu?d his three sons to support him. It trinppired in evidence that ail ware born prior to marriage. Tho magistrate docidod that plaintiff .had no claim, as the hw did not recoguise illegitimate children-

Gisborke, August 18;h. Mr Benien and sinig directors and share holders of the Southern Cross Oil Company have gone to verify the reports re the richneiuof the finds of oil. The shares here are up 200 par cent-, and are hard to get at taat.

| New Plymouth, Anguat lS:h. The Herald's correspondant at Pungarehu ! telegraphs that there was no meeting at Pari | links yesterday, owing to the wet weather. At ; tho meeting to-Juy about 300 wf re present. A ; great taugi wag bold over the death of Mnku i brother of Titokowan:. The purport of 'XV j Whiti'a speech was to encourage the younft | Maoris to fence and cultivate the land, and to januoy tin Europeans within bounds, so filling juia young hearers with pluck- He quoted the ,Bi!)'.«, mentioning a fbod and fire that, ac ]cc rJiog to Scripture, in the old days wasted th>jUnd for s-ven days; and Te Whiti said: "The Government power will cease within seven mouths; two of these months have ola;*ed, thus leaving five more for £uropean BUjiremacy to fall."

John Tliomua Shaw, one of the first Bettlers who rain's to New Pivmouth, died yostercUy At the Age of 1)1 yeniM. Tho harbour works at Mouteron are pro cecding rapidly. Coucrate block? weighing ISS conn, coutaining 112 cubic yards, were oin iiieiu-od jeaterday morning-, and finished this afternoon.

j At; tho Polioo Court, Christina Wilson, ar jold c (lender, whs s.ntenced to two years' hard j labour ou two charges of larceny from St Mary's Cathedral. A g»nnifia of the bsrqao 1 Berwickshire was soot to giol for three months f r broaching cargo. : At tho meeting of (he Harbour Board tM!afternoon a commitUo was appointed to confer ;wi:.h the Couimittiw appointed by the City council on the Bi.bjjcl of a dry deck for Wellington. It waß also decided that tin Committee wait on tho (Jjveiutneut withr-m dtlvy regarding thr- question of au endowment.