TELEGRAPHIC.

Western Star, Issue 1969, 8 December 1894, Page 2

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[Per Press Association.] FRIDAY EVENING. Auckland. It has been arranged by the Union Company to resume salvage operations at the wrecked steamer, Wairarapa. Mr D Gouk and a gang of of men left to-day to prosecute the work. The Police received a telegram from Constable White of Nagacuawahia giving particulars of an attempted suicide. Some workmen of Komokotau side of the river noticed the four-roomed house of John Thomas, a single special settler, on fire. Potter, who was inside with his throat cut, was rescued by two men, who broke the door open. The man was removed to the Hamilton hospital and his injuries are stated not to be serious. Wellington.' The Supreme Court has been occupied for the last three days hearing a claim for £5Ol damages, brought by a young woman named Dorothea Hansen against the city corporation for injury sustained; by falling into a drain which it was alleged was unprotected. Plaintiff *met with the accident in June last, and was still confined to bed. The jury awarded £l5O and costs according to scale. The colonial mails of 3rd Nov. by Mariposa reached London yesterday one day late. Robert J. S. Todd committed suicide on Thursday by shooting himself. He was a single man and about to proceed to Sydney to marry. His brother shot himself some years ago in Dunedin. At the inquest on the body of Robert J, S. Todd, late accountant of the Government Insurance Department, R G Thomas, fellow lodger, Inspector Pender, Mr Somerville, brother-in-law, and Dr James were examined. The evidence adduced showed deceased had been drinking lately, and the night before he committed the deed he had to be assisted to bed. Very little drink affected 1 him, and he had in fact not been himself for the past month. The coroner stated that he had seen a letter from a young lady in Victoria to whom deceased was engaged, and it contained nothing but ordinary lady’s chit chat, and concluded with the , hope that they would soon meet. Nothing at all was adduced to which they could attribute the rash act, and his relations declared there was no lunacy in the family. Mr Hudson, secretary of Insurance Department, said so far as the department is concerned deceased’s finances are quite in order. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Deceased’s life was insured for £I2OO. Arrived at 3 p.vn. the Kaikoura from London via the Cape and Hobart. The passage was an uneventful one. She brings 204 passengers and 1800 tons cargo for New Zealand.