TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1547, 1 February 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

A girl named Bose Fisher, aged 4J years was drowned at Invercargill on Saturday last. The deceased accompanied her father, and sister to look for watercress and after they had been engaged some time was missed. Her father saw her hat floating in the water* bole and imagining she had lost it and gone home to escape reprimand he went to the house, but as the child was not there be re* turned to the water*hole and dived, and found the body in about eight feet of water. Edmund Alfred Baldwin, 20 years of age, employed in Sargood’i boot factory, Dunedin, was found dead on Saturday night on the Town Belt, with a revolver in one hand and a bullet mark under the jaw. In deceased’s pocket a letter was discovered, from which it appeared that he committed suicide owing to a quarrel with a relative. He left bis house, Union street, at 7.40 a.m. on Monday, with the intention, as was thought, of going to work, but he did not turn up at the workshop, nor did he return home again. There are indications that he shot himself on Monday. At the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company’s annual meeting a most satis* , factory balance-sheet was submitted, £IOOO was added to the reserve, £IOOO to re-insarance, £SOO to contingent liabilitiep, and the usual dividend was dedared. Government intend to take proceedings , against Rotorua leaseholders for arrears of rent. The Natives are clamoring for payment. ’The gang of men engaged in turning over the dthria of the fire at the Wood, pare Company’s premises have completed their task, without finding more bodies, so that it now appears clear that only the four already mentioned lost their lives. An enquiry commences on Tuesday. Only one of the Kaitangata miners who wen t out on strike has returned to work, although efforts have been made by the men to induce the hands at present at work to leave. The j men who were taken on now can earn 12s a day, and those with previous knowledge : pf raining 14a. ' Constable Flemming, who was fined for assaulting a civilian at Dunedin, has been dismissed from the force. The Colonial Secretary will leave Wei* ! lington for the South io a few days, and j will call a meeting of sheep inspectors in Canterbury and Otago with a view of | discussing the question of reform in the Department. A lunatic named William Higgins, de- ( scribed as dangerous, escaped from the Wellington asylum on Friday and is not yet re-captured. It is believed he will ■ make up country. At Queenstown a man named Boult was committed for trial on Saturday on two • charges of embezzlement of the Lake County funds. The steamer Penguin was taken on the slip at Wellington on Saturday, An examination of the propeller reveals the fact that the shaft had broken in the pipe a few feet from the steo-post. The break is a very ragged one, and has burst the pipes and some of the plates on either side. The leak which resulted was confined to the after peak, which is cut off from the rest of the ship by a watertight bulkhead. No explanation of the accident can be given, except that it must from a flaw in the iron. The sea was perfectly smooth at the time, and there was no sudden jar ( tb account for the break. The Penguin ‘will have to remain on the slip until a square shaft, which the Company has in stock, can be brought up from Dunedin. A gang of ten “ spielers ” have been ' arrested on a charge of gambling in a railway train on the Welliogton-Masterton line. Five of them were ultimately released, the evidence against them not being strong enough to detain them. Since Mie fatal lift accident at Messrs Hayman and Co.’s warehouse, Wellington, • several firms have tested the antomatic brakes on the lifts in their premises with unsatisfactory results. Daring the bearing of an affiliation case, at Wellington on Saturday morning, Mr Jelliooe said he understood the plaintiff had written or communicated with Mr Wardell, R.M., before the hearing of the case, and asked His Worship to put a stop to that sort of thing. Mr Wardell said certainly not,' He was always ready tp hear what people had to say who came to him for advice, but not to discuss cases beforehand, He had never heard a more impertinent suggestion from counsel in h's life, and ordered Mr Jelliooe to sit down. The latter continued to >rgue, saying (as veil as poqld he understood in the interchange of words) that the con* duct of litigants in going to the Magistrate before the oases were tried was becoming a public scandal, Mr Wardell replied he was the beat judge, and certainly would not refuse to bear people, ,