SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVIV, Issue 4412, 16 January 1897, Page 3

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The second series of the Dunedin wool sales opened in Dunedin on Thursday morniog. Up to noon prices for best sorts were a triHe firmer thau at the first series, while other sorts brought about the same rates. • A man named Entwistie ran amuck at Wellington on Wednesday and emptied a sixchambered revolver at his wife and daughter and a man who interfered. No seriouo damage was done, and when arrested he expressed regret for his bad shooting. Domestic trouble was the cause of the shooting.

A body found in the Mariawatu River is supposed to be -that of Lawson, a railway engineer, who was knocked off a train on the Pohangina bridge on July 2.

Some malicious person cut the spokes of two vehicles belonging to Mr Currie, the mail contractor, at Wyudham on Wednesday night. This was only discovered after the horses had been yoked up. The mail was carried on horseback to Edendale.

The s.s JVlanaia, trom Wellington to Waitara and Mokau, is a total wreck on Oeo Beach, near Opunake, on tbe same spot as the Maramara went ashore. The crew are safe. The vessel struck at 2 a.m. on Thursday morning. The sea was calm, but the atmosphere hazy, owing to bush fires.

The hearing of the charge against Bosher for the Wtllington murders goes slowly on, and it is likely to last all the week or more. On Thursday statements made by him to various constables accounting for his movements were put in. These were contradictory to some extent.

Pat M'Lauchlin, night watchman on the ship Euterpe, at Wellington, was found drowned alongside the vessel on Thursday morning. When last seen at 1.45 a.m. he was quite sober. The cause of the accident is unknown.

Miss Gertrude Coulson, eldest daughter of Captain J. P. Coulson, of the steamer Herald, a resident of Dunedin, was accidentally drowned while on a visit at Featherstone. She was only sixteen years of age.

Wilhelm Spac, traveller for a German piano and organ company, was charged at Wellington on Tuesday with failing to take out a license as required by law. The magistrate convicted and ordered him to purchase a license, the cost of which is £50. As this was the first case of the kind he did not inflict the maximum penalty, which is £20 per diem, but fined defendant 20s for each day he had carried on business.

The membership of the Institution of Marine Engineers at the end of 1895 included 860 persons, who were distributed as follows : -Sydney,279; Melbourne, 163 ; Wellington, 147; Brisbane, 99; Adelaide, 79; Auckland, 63 ; Dunedin, 30.