TELEGRAMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume IX, Issue 880, 14 January 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[ter united press association,] Ch ri s tc hurcit, We dn es day. At an adjourned inquest on the body of John Smith Legge, who died suddenly on January' 6th, letters of the deceased were produced, which proved that he had poisoned himself by' taking chloral. He wrote that he had been driven mad by financial embarassments, partly' caused by going in. lately' for consultations and sweep® ; in which luck was against him. A verdict of “ Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity” was returned. His Excellency the Governor and suite, left for Wellington by tho Hinemoa, this afternoon. Wellington. Wednesday'. The General Survey Department have had prepared a number of excellent maps concerning New Zealand, which are intended for exhibition at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, to bo held this year. One map, which has been beautifully 7 executed, shows very clearly. Telegrams havo been received by tlie Government that the State prospectors, who are to thoroughly search the King country for gold, will make a start tomorrow, when they expect to reach Awainutu.

Mr Arthur Clayden is booked as a passenger for England by the Tainui on Sunday next. It is understood that Mr Clayden has made arrangements with the Government to lecture in the agricultural counties on New Zealand, with a view' to encouraging the immigration of small capitalists and farmers. The Stella will leave for Caswell Sound early next week for the purposo of conveying dow'n to the quarries there two or three of the directors of the Caswell Sound Marble Company and two exports, who will make a careful survey of the Company’s property and afterwards submit a report and a sufficient number of workmen to resume operations at the works. In connection with the inquiry into the recent narrow escape from collision on the railway between an arrival passenger train and the shunting engine. The driver of the passenger train has been disrated for six mouths, and the driver of the shunting engine for three months.

The Samoan chiefs who arrived in New Zealand “to interview the Governor aud Ministry in reference to British protection being afforded to Samoa, are expected to-morrow evening. During their stay it is understood they will be enter tained by Admiral Tryon on board the Nelson.

Government received a cable message this evening from the Ageut-G metal, stating that on receipt of tlie Premier’s message regarding the recent occurrence in Samoa, lie placed himself in communication with the Colonial Office, and Lord Salisbury immediately telegraphed to B< rlin and received a satisfactory and reassuring reply from the General Government stating to the effect that nothing in the nature of annexation was contemplated.