TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6391, 7 August 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.)

Auckland, August sth. Richard Moore, wine and spirit merchant, attempted to commit suicide at the North Shore to-day. He shot himself in the forehead and body with a revolver. It is not probablo that he will recover. The attempt was most deliberate. The first bullet struck him on the forehead; arid believing that it would not prove fatal, he deliberately loaded the weapon again and shot himself in the pit of the stomach.

The evidence given by Captain Johnston, mats of the schooner Elizabeth Curie, rolative to her wreck, was so complicated that Mr Hill, collector of Customs, did not'feel justified in dealing with it. A nautical inquiry beforo the R.M. and Captain Fraser, nautical assessor, is to be held early next week. Herbert Lackinson, who was stated lately to have lost several thousand pounds with bookmakers and cardplaying, has been sentenced, to two months' imprisonment for stealing a gold ring and money from his landlord, Samuel Poarce. He pleaded drunkenness.

August 6th.; Moore is still conscious. The doctors state he may linger for days. The bullet is still undiscovered. Mooro made his will yesterday afternoon, and stated that if he recovered ho would repeat the attempt. Family troubles are understood to bo the cause.

The body of a man has been found in the harbour. It is believed to be the missing steward of the Mendoza—Murray. He had been drinking.

A meeting of cricketers is to be held during the week to consider the proposal to send an Auckland team on a Southern tour through the provinces during the ensuing season.

Wellington, August sth. The following tenders have been received for the Swift Creek contract of tho WaipahiHeriotburn branch railway: — Accepted: Poter Dey, Mosgiel, £3231. Declined: M'lntyre and Eraser, Dunedin, £3594; Mercer and Low, Dunedin, £3G50; P. and R. Anderson, Tapanui, £3857; M'Alister and Turnbull, £39SG; H. Whitaker, Dunedin, £3993; — Gillies, Tapanui, £4028; James Cranston, Dunodin, €4188; ,Tohn Isbister, Invercargiil, £4188; John Crawford, Lawrence, £4796. Tho new business of tho Government' Insurance Department for the year ended 30th Juno, 1882, is as follows:—Ordinary branch, 2523 policies issued, assuring £702,912; total premium income for year, £26,489 9s Bd. The business of the industrial branch for the period from 31st March to 30th Juno i 5:—2593 policies, assuring £57,425; total annual premium income for period referred to, £2408 ISs. A man named W. C. Green has been arrested here on a charge of embezzling tho money of his employer, Mr R. Sullivan, liivercargill.

The case of Hurrey v. The Bank of New South IVales, which has occupied the Supremo Court since Wednesday morning, was this evening further adjourned until Monday.

Chhistchuroh, August sth. AT, Joubert and family left for Sydney in the Hero.

August 6th. At a meeting re the railway tariff yesterday, the following resolutions were carried :— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Canterbury members will not be doing their duty to their constituents unless they use every means in their power, to get the present high tariff on farm produce reduced, and that the matter should not be loft in abeyance until the recess." "That farmers be requested to hold meetings in all country districts, in order to show their local members tho strong feelings of their constituents in the matter," The meeting was convened at the instance of tho Corn Exchange and the Fanners' Co-operative Association, and the language of those present on the subject was extremely emphatic.