NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3493, 16 June 1884, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(Peb Pbkss Association.)

THIS DAT.

Attempted SuicideNew Plymouth, June 16. A girl named Lottie Jurney attempted to commit suicide in the Waitara river yesterday morning but was rescued-

A Dropsical Crew*

Wellington, June 16.

The Marine Department have received the following telegram from Auckland ; —“The barque Andro EJas, David Murray, master, bound from Formosa to Auckland, which was towed to Manukau yesterday, bad a crew of Malays sick and dying with dropsy. Two are already dead. Dr Scott went to the ship last evening. The master had been misled by an old chart, which shows Auckland on the West Coast of New Zealand.”

A Diabolical ActChristchurch, Juno 16,

A case of attempted araon occurred at Sydenham last night during the absence of Mr Kingsford and family at church. A passerby noticed the weatherboards of his house on fire, and after the extinction of the flames, it was found that a bundle of rags saturated with kerosene, had been pushed under the house and ignited. The damage done was slight. The Unemployed at Oamaru, Oamabu, June 16. A meeting of unemployed was held to.day, but it was decided to adjourn till Thursday, to see what the outcome of the political crisis would be, and in the meantime to wait upon the local bodies and urge that employment be found for married men. An Indulgent Bank* Dunedin. June 16. Mr McNall, manager of the Bank of Australia has been presented with a silver tea service by the local customers of the Bank, Hatching a Shilling Dip. Invebcaegill, June 16, The police Court was occupied for several hours to-day with the case of Hatch v. Hayward, a charge of assault. The parties are rival manufacturers of sheep dips, and plaintiff alleged that defendant threw several pannikins of the fluid on him as the climax of a quarrel, which occurred during a trial of Hayward’s dip. After hearing evidence, the Court fined Hayward one shilling, each party lo pay his own costs.