The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1882.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4067, 14 June 1882, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1882.

A Telegraph Office has been opened at Te Aroha. County Piako. The hours of attendance are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except Sundays and public holidays, when it will be closed. The Patea ATail says that Jlr. Marehant, of Waverley, who has been ailing some time, disappeared suddenly on Saturday morning, and has not since been heard of. Searcli parties have been diligently scouring the district, but without success. Daniel O'Kane, who was committed to gaol three months ago for attempting to commit suicide at Hawera, has been released on bail, the necessary sureties having bppn found. He has been in gaol for three months, nnd would bave been compelled to have remained the whole term —six months —if his friends had not come forward and offered to release him by becoming bondsmen. As an instance of how those who are opposed to Auckland-Taranaki route of the main line of railway circulate canard*, we clip the following from the Rangitihi Advocate :— " Touching incidentally on the Mokau route, we may mention that years ago a mere coach road along the sea beach north o£ New Plymouth was so hard to obtain that a cliff had to be tunnelled. The coach had to reach this tunnel by a fixed time day by day, according to the tides. At high tide the sea swept through it, and it was more than the coachman's and his passengers' lives were worth to attempt a passage " out of season." Besides stating the above if not true, we may inform our contemporary that the proposed line will not go in the direction of the tunnel referred to. A paragraph appeared in our paper last week to the effect that although papers were posted at Napier for parties living here, they never reached their destination. We have made enquiries respecting the complaint made to us, and find that there has not been the slightest allusion of the nonreceipt of expected newspapers to any of the Post-office officials. Had there been, an enquiry would have at once been made into the matter. We suppose that we re ceive as many newspapers as any one in the place, and we can speak from experience that it is a rare thing for us to find a copy of any of our exchanges missing. If persons are certain that papers have been sent them, their duty is to inform the Postmaster, who will soon ascertain the cause of their non-delivery. From Sydney papers we learn some further particulars of the suicide of Captain Smith, of the barque Campie Glen. The vessel left Timaru on April 21st and on the twelth day out, the captain was told that coffee was ready, and, on the boy getting no reply, the mates forced open the cabin doo • and found the cabin furniture and curtains covered with blood, and the captain kneeling over his trunk in the attitude of prayer with his throat cut, having committed the act with pieces of a broken boottle. The body was still warm, it was preserved in spirits for twelve days, but, in spite of this, decomposition set in, and the corpse was buried at sea. Captain Smith formerly commanded the "Coc dv village," and is reported to have left a wife anil family. No doubt we are all aware (says the Otago Witness) that Mr. Bracken, Mr. Fish, and Mr. M. W. Green have been chosen as the three wisest men in Dunedin, but we don't think the people realised the fact till they saw their names in the Parliamentary report. Tl-e citizens will grow familiar with their happiness in time ; at present it i» rather bewildering. Dnnedin is n community of 40,000 people, of whom the three wisestare found to bu Messrs. Bracken, Fish, and M. V 7. Green. Thu oddity of the situation probably strikes the three gentlemen as forcibly as it strikes us.