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Temuka Leader, Issue 1549, 5 February 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

A yotmg man named Hird met with a, serious accident at the Gisbbrne harbor ■„ >*orks<on .Thursday. He slipped from »' *** waclc, and his foot waa crushed to a pulp, >' under "the wheel, and will have to be } '} amputated. > , Ai-r / , A. man named Got lick Raspar was < '" *' taken to New Plymouth from Midhurat on' Thursday morning, having stabbed himself in the stomach with a butcher's f% r-"knife. He-had two long wounds 7 , from which tbe entrailsjprotruded. He lived X-i -*>» a bush section, and is a married man .„. J with four children. No motive is assigned .for the act, bat the man is in a despond,I-"' ine state of mind. , The s.s. Hinemoa with Sir Julius and „;t Lady Vogel and suite arrived at Ne* .'.WPlymouthjesteiday, and the party left '"'* by the train for the South. Sir Julius " /-. would try to go the overl&rid'fourriey, so the steamer landed the party at New P/mouth, • ' -i ' -• '

A young man named (Masters, whose father, a Dunedin resident, has been making inquiries nboat him through the ; police, has been discovered working on a ' etafioniatClairlogie, near Masterton. t The Old Soldiers' Claims Commission i has furnished a report and forwarded, it to 1 the Governor. It will be found that very few of the sixteen hundred and odd claims , have received favorable consideration. i | Twenty-five pburida reward is offered P f-r information leading to the appreben- - iionofthe Poverty -Bay, .murderers. '' j On Thursday morning between 6 and 6 , b'o'ock,, Robinson Martin, licensee of the Glencoe Hotel, forest Hill, Southland , shot himself through the head with a revolver in his bedroom. Death was instiu* taneonc. Deceased leaves a widow. Mrs , Martin occupied the same room, but was , unconscious' of her husband's movements until ilWakeibed by the" teport of the Revolver. Martin was formerly manager. Of ..the W»ico|a estate, afterwards a saw- : miijer/afc'Wintbpj>nd more recently a farmer and publicui., ] At the Wellington Races on Thursday, the Telegraph Stakes was Won by Litlln s:rubj the Wellington ; Two-year-old Stakes'•%'Crutchfiald, the Hurdles by ifrngask,, the Wellington Cup. by Pasha, a!nd,the - 'Stewards' Slakes by. Tit Bit. £3436 were passed through the totalisalor. j In consequence of the demand which has arisen in England for tinned _ meats arrangements ! have been made < with the' Qtar arid Wellington Meat preserving Company, for larg9 shipments ;of' ; thSi>\'tt»nHfacture, Every ;irich of jsjpa'ce on" boardPthe Rimhtaka which can jb'c devoted to cargo of jthis kind will be 't^en,ad vantage'of. |:' , ,?'.; o'[