TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10595, 12 September 1896, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(Fur United Press Association.) Wellington, September 11. .A married woinau named Lizzie Leonard, residing with her husband at the National Boarding-house, had words with her husband this evening, and, moiling upstairs, seized a razor and attempted to commit snicide by cutting her throat. A hasty wound was inflicted, and on the arrival of a doctor he stitohod it up. It is not expected to prove fatal. I At a meeting of tha City Council to-night a letter wss received From the tramway proprietors offering to 3s!l to the corporation for the sum of £50,000. Wo action was taken. A petit.iou bearing the signatures of the chief officer of tbe Salvation Army iv New Zealand and the presidents nnd lending officers of nil temperance organisations in the colony was presented to the Premier to-night by Mr Walter, of the New Zealand Alliance, in which the Government were e»ruently urged to pasß the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Aot Amendment Bill through the Houße as early as possible in ordei to give the Legislative Council sufficient time to complete its passage iuto law before the session closes.

Chbistchuhch, September 11. At the annual meeting of the Progressive Liberal Association, resolutions were carried urging the Government, in view of the proposed expenditure of £250,000 on railways, to pass a Betterment Bill this session, and calling upon the Government to secure a greater share of tho colony's mineral (gold) wealth for the beneQt of the people.