TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 9351, 18 October 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 16. Mr H. W. Farnoll announces his candidature for WaHemata. The Siark Enquiry is still proceeding. No evidence of conspiracy has b-^n disclosed. Mr Stark cables to his aoiicitor that he has just heard of the Commission, and leives ijondon at once to return to the colony. A young woman, Olive St. John, attempted suicide la**t ni^ht by throwing hereelf iato the harbour from Queen street wharf. She seized a buoy thrown t.o her t«y a constable, and was rescued. A large new four-storey building for the V.M.C.A. is now finished, and will be formally opened on the 2n 1 November. Messrs Robertson and Prior, of Waitetuna, were drowned at Raglan yesterday, through the capsizing of a sailing boat. James Liveaey, commission agent, has been committed for trial on four charges of fo g"ry. The Baptist Conference has closed. The Rev. W. H. Cornt'ord. or 1 Napier, was elected President ol the Union. The next session is to be held in Wellington. Proceedings will bo taken against Walker, Mftckay, and Boltnn, the ihrea principal witnesses in the prosecution of E. D. Bennett, on a charge of perjury. The charges to be laid are understood to be conspiracy and perjury, and there is said to be a charge against Bolton under the Bankruptcy A.;t, ariding oat of the disclosures which ho made during his croes-tixamiaation ia the Supreme Court in Bennett's case. WELLINGTON, Oct. 17. The 8.8. Mahinapua. with the southern portion of the San Francisco mail, sailed for Lyttelton at 11.15 to-night. CHRISTCHURCH: Oct. 17. William Hosking, a labourer auaployed at Ripa Island fortifications, died last night from injuries received by a fall of earth on Thursday last. DUNEDIN, Oct. 16. A stable, with two horses, belonging to O'Donnell and McCormack, Frederick street, was destroyed by fire this morning. The stable was insured for L3O with tha Norwich Union, and the horses for LSO in the New Zealand. Dr Ooughtrey's house, which was slightly damaged, is insured in the Norwich Union.