TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1557, 16 September 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Mayor of Auckland on Mondny Dight presented at the Opera house the brocz9 medals of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia to Coost'ib'e Christie and Alfred Geo. Mabin for gallantry in saying drowning persons, and the certificate of merit to Alfred Bevihs, second officer of the steamer lona, for similur conduct. A youug man narned Charles Hpdson, until lately bill clerk in the Union Bank, Wellington, was arrested a* Nelson on Saturday, charged with embezzling the sum of £59. He was tiken before the Magistrate there and remanded to Wellington! It is understood there are large defalcations.: i . . . Colonel Sir.GeorgoWhitmore has left Wellington for New Plymouth, wh«re he will meet the ..Oefence Minister, and they will together select and endeavor to arrange for the use of a site somewhere near Waitara, for the next Easter volunteer eocampment. By holding camp io this neighborhood, facilities will b< afforded for naval as well as land movements. , In the Supreme Court, Hokitika, before the Chief Justice, on Monday, Garland, charged with larceny, pleade I guilty. Sentence was deferred. In th j charge bgainat David Curie for libel no bill was found. The civil case,_ Cullen v. Chesney, settlement of partner ship .accounts, was adjourned. In th*divorce case Edward John Lewis v. Margaret Lewis, and Bulling, the jury found that both petitioner ant respondent had committed adultery, .A_ decree is not yet asked for. The seduu" tion case, Taylor v. Woolfe, was then taken. The Otago escort has just brought down £35,000 worth of gold.' Peter WetherstoDe, the discoverer of Wetherstone's goldfield,' has died in the Dunedin hospital.

Information receive! shows that Now Zealand was represented by fire representatives at the finil eximirraMon for the degrees of M. 8., CM., Edinburgh, Messrs King, Jeffcoat, Lindsav, Cunningham, and Hawkes, all securing desti' ction. Mr Truby King, of Tararaki, secured the blue ribbon ; of the medical school, the Etfclea prize, having only beaten Air Jeffcoat »|,Ot<igo on tim record of the earliest examinuton. B ith bpve secured positions in an infirmary, J Mr. Jeffcoat, who received his early medical training at the Otago Medical School, won the Stark fellowship of £lof>, the holder of which must engage in original research. He also secured tlie Blaney scholarship of £6O, and he h.3ld the: highest place for ihe Buchanitn and James Scott scholarships, but these, he could not hold with the Sturk scholarship; By the Alameda, which sailed [on Tuesday evening for San Francii-wyMr H. H. Adams-, mannger of the Wuirongouiai battery (Auckland), proceeds to inspect the new appliance* in use ;it_ thn Oaliiornian mines for gold and silver saving, purposes, with a view to their in trodactiou here.

Henry Hal', better known as Harry Hall, aged 45, who has been employed for years as ticket-taker at the House and Theatre Royal, Aucklan', committed suicide on Tuesday night at his lodgings by firing a pistol intojhis mouth. He was found lying on the floor bleeding profusely. Ho used ; an ;old thei.tricul property p'stol, with a Urge charge of powder but no ball. The discharge t-mished his f ice and shattered his jaws. Before ho died he made his will on a theatrical poster. The salary flue to him at the Upeia House is to be given to his trmte and . fellow lodger, lid ward Broad, his w*toh and chain "to his uncle, Mr Bail, s*driler. of Gisboriie, and money and land t<> his brother, wlfom he last heard'of at iVhangarei. He also mado a i-t dement as to the,cause I .that;led to the deed. It his transpired that he was in the habit of bookniikiug on rapes", 1 and had recently lost Wune wagers. FJin mind seemed to he aff-ct-d, and he complained within the hist few days that "they set a trap, for him," nrd " they were hll in it." There is no doubt ihie betting rlelusion was the caiisn of the rash act. In his written-sfr.tomenti h" made this accusation, mentioning two names, which have not transpired. Three men were with him a short time previously to the act, one of them to piy him a email bet. . ,' • . Some of the Christchurch unemployed are much incensed with Sir Robrfc Stout, and on Tuesday night paraded; iU town with a bundle of old clothes, intended as an effig_\ of the Premier, which they subjected to a variety of indigdie*. The, only reasou that cm be as-iigned foi their action, is that they »re under ihe impression that the Premier h«s been en-, deavoring to avoid receiving a deputation from the unemployed. At Christchurch the case of George , Waldock Ell, who has acquired t-ooj'u notoriety W the suit of E'il v. Harper, came before the Supreme 0 >urt ou Tuesday. Sometime ago Ell was adjudeerlja bankrupt. He was not present, having gone 'to'Wellington . to seek 'legal advice, and had neglected to obey an order of. the Court to file a stateme.it of his assets and liabilities. Mr Justice J"hnston said he would not commit EH for coutempt in hjjs absence, but he must purge himself from the contempt in some way, or be sent to gaol. The steamer Southern Cross, from Gishorne t<> '• uckl»nd, hid a stormy passage; Eight bullocks died in the forehold, and 150 sheep were drowned on deck. , An accident happened to the machinery, which stopped the engines ten hours, during the height of the gale. The topsail and, main topsail were blown away. Every effort, «*s made to save the stock, but they proted fruitless.