TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1951, 3 October 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Bishop Grimes has exprressed his willingness to become a member of the Imperial Federation League, and has subscribed towards the funds. The Supreme Court at Napier on Tuesday was occupied hearing the libel action against the proprietors of the Waipawa Mail, brought by Dr You Mirbach. Sometime ago the doctor was defendant in the Resident Magistrate’s Court in a claim for wages,which he won. A letter appeared in the Waipawa Mail commenting on the ease and calling the doctor “ Skylock ” and other abusive terms. The chief assertion on which the action was based.however, was 1 that Dr Mirbach was not entitled to 1 style himself a doctor of medicine. He prbvedthat he held the degreesof doctor of medicine, surgery, and midwifery. The special jury gave him a verdict for £250. The chief justice certified for costs on the medium scale. A young woman of 18 years, Miss Winifred Whitelaw, died very suddeniy on Mbnday morning from heart disease. The deceased lady, who recently passed the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University, was a teacher in one of the Auckland public schools. B. C. Maine, a boundary-keeper on Mr Tulley’s run at Martinhorough, was found dead,on the hills on Monday. How he came by his death is notjyet ascertained.

The farm buildings of Jarvis Wilson, Longridge .North, Invercargill, were destroyed by fire on Sunday afternoon. There was no insurance, and the loss will be £l3O. Wilson and wife had gone to visit a neighbour who was sick, and one of the children getting possession of some matches set fire to the oat stack, and the flames extended to the buildings. The dwelling-house escaped.

• On Tuesday morning the wife of Mr W. Baths, a storekeeper at Karori, Wellington, took a dose of “ rough-on-rats while suffering from nervous excitement. An antidote was used with success:

Mary Ann Brown, married, 53 years of age, found by the police on a vacant allotment at Auckland on Monday, was taken to the lock-up charged with drunkenness, and died on Tuesday morning. An’inquest will be held. At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery on Tuesday the Her. Mr Munro, at the request of the members, stated the facts he had learnt in his visit to places of immorality in the city. He found a very great deal of vice existing, and that it was on the increase, especially since the C.D. Act went out’of force. The number of women engaged in vice had increased from 75 to over 400. He was surprised at the number and class of men .frequenting such places and the amount of money spent on crime. The cause ho attributed to late hours, dancing, men-of-war visits, bad literature, climate, and flesh food, He deplored the want of agencies of referm, while hundreds of agents of vice existed. Men lived on their wives’ vices, and mothers on their daughters’. On the motion of the Rev. Mr Somerville, a vote of thanks was passed unanimously to the Rev. Mr Munro, and the committee of the Presbytery was requested to convene a meeting of all ministers and others to consider the question.