TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1127, 4 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent.)

Chbistchurcii, September 1

Latest details of the suicide at Rangiora show that it was a most deliberate and determinocl act The carpenter hanged himself on a gum tree, from which ho had coolly cleared away a number of small branches that interfered with his movements. He leaves a wife and six children quite unprovided for.

Timaku, September 1

No trace has yet been found of Mr E. VV . Tates, commission agent, who has been missing since Wednesday. The police and a large number of private persons have been out searching all day and dragging creeks outh of the town but without result.

AsiinuKTOx, September 1

A very brillant meteor passed over the town last night, travelling in a S. VV. direction.

Invercarc.ill, 2,

At a meeting of settlers at Hendon Bush, it was resolved to form a company to construct a like under the District Railways Act from Maimatuku to join the Goverment railway at Wairoa. Shares were fixed at £5 each, and 1000 taken up immediaely. Other meetings are to be held, and it is expected that the project will meet with general support.

During a thunderstorm yesterday, a colt belonging to a settler at Waikiwi, was killed by lighting. Two people standing near the animal say, they ex perienced a sensation of being slightly stunned.

James Morton, well-known as a taxidermist, committed suicide this morning, by taking a quantity of arsenic. It is supposed half au ounce. His wife noticed him vomiting, and sent for a doctor, but deceased gradually got worse, and died. He left a memo in which he took leave of his wife and I family, and forgave all his enemies, I and "all people that on earth do divail". Deceased was, a cjpver naturalist/but had given way to unsteady habits for some time past. Greymouth, 2. All the stern of the ioness or about one-third of her length has disappeared during the night. 'he wreck will be sold, as it is, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Little or nothing of any value has' been saved from the wreck, no further attempt to do so being made. An enquiry will be held at the Customs on Monday morning. DUNEDIN, 1. At the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Williams ordered the Treasurer of the Roslyn Borongh to issue a license to Mr Butler. This is the applicant, who was granted a license by the Linden Committee, which was elected by the ratepayers, but was refused it by a committee of five appointed by the Governor, the case was not contested on behalf of the latter committee at which his Honor expressed regret at the R.M. Court to-'---day. Auckland, September I.' William Walters, the well-known horse-breeder and sportsman, has been token with an apoplectic fit, and is dangerously ill.