Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XII, Issue 506, 1 March 1879, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

( Associated Press Telegrams.) Inveecahgill, February 27th.

Some of the crops at Five Rivers Plain are very heavy, the estimate being from 100 to 110 bushels to the acre. Some heads of wheat were examined in town to-day, and were found to contain from 175 to 200 grains to the ear. Harvesting operations are becoming general, and the yield promises to be exceedingly plentiful.

Chbistchuhch, February 26th.

A woman named Goodger, the wife of a cab proprietor, poisoned herself this morning, it|is supposed with strychnine. She was seen by her little boy to throw something into her mouth, and on being asked what she did, she said she had poisoned herself. She was at once conveyed to the hospital, and died there this evening.

February 28th. At the inquest on the body of Mrs Goodger yesterday, the jury returned a verdict that she died from the effects of strychnine during temporary derangement of the mind.

An accident happened at Middleton station yesterday. The driver of the goods train from Dunsandle, Wm. Smith, fell off the engine, and a truck passed over his legs between the knee and the ankle. He was taken to the Christchurch Hospital, and his leg was amputated.

WELIirGTOK, February 26Lh: The Attorney-Q-eneral has given an opinion to the Corporation that the construction of new streets is a work within the meaning o£ the term " public works " in the Municipal Corporations Act, and for which a spe3!|^ loan may be raised with the approval of th 6 ratepayers. The city solicitor has advised differently.

The barque Aberdeen from New York, which port she left on September 20th, fell in with the English brig Ada Fulton on October Bth, bound from Prince Edward Island to Cuba with, coal, in a sinking condition, after encountering a cyclone. She took off the captain and eight men, and on the 19th Iranshipped four men to the ship Salodora, bound to Pernambuco. On November Ist she tran* shipped the others to the British ship Balcome, from London to the West Indies.