TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1226, 29 January 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM Otfß O'iVN CdRRBSPOFNDENr. ) Wellington, 28. At the Supremo Court to-day, a caso against John Bewley for an indecent assault on a girl eight year's old, was dismissed. Auckland, 28. The trial of W. W. Gudgeon for attempted rape on Mrs Enrifvied of the Thames, hrs not concluded. Some remarkable correspondence was read. Mrs Erinfried utterly denied any criminal intimacy with the accused. Gisbornb, 26. The engineer of the Southern Cross, Petroleum Company reports that the ground is more compact and defined, and better for boxing. There is no increase of water. Three caslt3 of petroleum have arrived at Ghboine, and will be sent for exhibition in other parts of the colony. Nelson. 26. There is virtually no doubt remaining now that the rumoured case of mui'd'er at Happy Valley, Wakatipu, iB simply one of suicide. John Fuller, a man of about 45 years of age, gave information two days ago that he had been assaulted and considerably knocked about by a man named Thompson, and he also gave information that Thompson, had threatened $0 >* do ; for him " unless , he paid £4, tibe .'. Value of a ' dog ■ - belonging ,■• to Thbmpson, and which :^;^wi shot 'for worrying sheep, dfllwer being found dead, it was thought Thompson had . carried out his threat, and it is stated now that Thompson has fled in fear. However, the whole circumstances conclusively show that Fuller shot himself. He left home at 5 o'clock this morning to look after cows, taking with him a gun. Later in the morning his wife became alarmed, and sent her neice in search, and the girl ultimately found Fuller shot dead in a clump of manuka. A careful inspection of the ground shows no trace of a struggle, and it is evident that Fuller 'lay down with his gun under one arm, having first tied a piece of flax to the trigger, and having passed the flax round tho s ock, he placed the gun to the centre of his forehead andpuljed the flax; Death ; followed evidently without a struggle, as a quantity of brains was found on the grass below tlie wound. An inquest takes place tomorrow. Auckland, 26. Extensive bush fires in the North are alleged to have been caused by Maoris and tramps, for gum digging purposes. Kaikoura, 26. It is reported that a native, named Ratha, living at Mangamuna, eight miles from here, murdered his wife. ' • Wellington, 26. Considerable interest is being excited amongst a number of residents here by private reports from the Reefton district, and Mr Henry Mace has been deputed by a syndicate, and leaves for Reefton this evening, in order to make an exhaustive report upon some lar^e interests that have been offered here. I The case of Geo. Longhurst will, in all probability, come under the con sideration of the Cabinet on Monday next, and should the result be favourable to the prisoner his case will most likely be dealt with by the Executive on the following day, " N<* -iidingshiSro yet been received as to tho whereabouts of the man M'Mahon who is supposed to have proceeded in the direction of the Lower Hutt, in search of his child, They have been missing since Monday night