Telegraphic

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7525, 27 August 1886, Page 2

Telegraphic

[per united press association.! Auckland, Thursday. The Jlimutaka, which arrived from Wellington to-day, "met with .severe weather— thunder and lightning, with.

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Commander Day, of the American war-, ship Mohican, notified to the police that 23 men had deserted. Fourteen have been recaptured by the police, who get £3 per head for them. At a meeting of the unemployed to-day it was resolved to boycot the Bell, and also to solicit Sir George Grey to address a meeting of the unemployed during tho present week. There has only been one applicant a day. at tho railway engineer's office seeking work at tho Woodhill (Kaipara) railway. Wanganui, Thursday. , Albert Stubbs, hotelkeeper, wasarrested to-day, charged with' tho manslaughter ofthe Maori lluhiruhi, who, it is alleged, died from the effects of tlio rough usage received from Stubbs. Accused was rematided for eight days, and was admitted to bail — £200 in his own recognizances and two sureties in £100 each. ■ •

Palmerston North, Thursday. . . Advice has been received by the Borough Council from the bank agent that tho £60,000 loan has all been floated in London' at £98. The minimum fixed by the Coun- ■ cil was 97, so that one per cent, more than the minimum fixed has been obtained, Tho Council will at once commence the prosecution of tho necessary .works. Wellington, Thursday. The agents of the Chasea, which put into Sydney disabled, have received notice tjiat the barque will not come on to 'Wellington. The sentence of death which was passed on .Rowland for the minder at Gisborne was to-day commuted to imprisonment for life. ...

William and Edward Arnold, father and son, were to-day charged with feloniously ■ harboring James Mitchell,' who is accused of burglariously entering- Mr Freeman'sjewellery shop and • abstracting goods to the value of £807. The accused were remanded until to-morrow. .-'.'.'

The directors of the Wellington Meat '■ Export Company recommend the payment of o per cent, dividend. , The Gazette notifies that LieutenantColonel G. b. Bailio has been appointed ' President of tha Council of Military' -, Education. ' ■ , ''..,'

MrT. Marriott, bookseller, a very old settler, having arrived in 1842, died' last night; aged 87; ' ... James Mitchell, alias M'Kenzie, alias The Masher, charged with thojpwellery

'. .'. .'- -robl)orydtFreeman's / .wasto-dayremandod . ■ '. .or a week. ' The steamer Waihi, from Palmerston to Wellington, which had all the blades -stripped from her propeller when crossing . the Wairau bar, arrived here tins afternoon in tow of the Wanaka. At the Supreme Court today Mr .Tellicoo, solicitor, raised an objection to tho police prosecuting in private coses. The Chief Justice ..oxpressed tho. opinion that it would I)? better to leave the question to the Magistrates'. -'•' ■ •*• ■ . . Christohukch, Thursday. A five-roomed house at Avonside, belonging .to. Mrs Hobe King, was . burned downed to-night. ' The building and furni--turo was completely destroyed, but wero insured for £240 in the Colonial Office. The cause of the lire is not known. [JTho weather becamo wot again early this morning, and it is now raining hard from the south-west. Tho unemployed ate agitating again. This morning v considerable number 'invaded tho Public Works Office, and a lohceman had to be sent for to k<Jop tllo . i^sjiage, clea,r'.,. . .Tliere.rf as no dlsturUancef tgwev.erl .. /Sprue q'f. tlio', mcii say rhafc if ;he Government- find .them a passage -to the West Coast they can get work there. A,,few,.riiarried irien have received orders for work at the Sandhills reserve.' . ...Tließev. Charles. Fraser, formerly minister of . St. Andrew's .Presbyterian Church)' -against whom serious- charges of misconduct were brought into the Presbytery about three years ago, is dead, aged 63. • •, . Ashborton,- .Thursday. ' • ; 'A seven -roomed house, belonging to Air Bl Cholson, was destroyed by fire this rimming, It was insured for £180 in tho Liverpool; .London., ,and Globe; ... , It has been showing,, heavily -here all this afternoon,'' The storm ' appears to haw been exceptionally severe in the back country.

TIMARU, Thursday.. Tho now St. Mary's Church was consecrated to-day by Bishop Harper. There was a large attendance, and the ceremony , was very, impressive. The nave of the churclt- only has been built," and will seat 800 persons. It has taken six years to Oamaeu, Thursday. A house, shop, and bakehouse, the property of Mr W. Smyth, were destroyed by lire this morning. The insurances were £250 in the Colonial Office and £275 in Australian Mercantile Marine.

- „ . Dunedin, Thursday. At to-day's meeting ot the Harbor Board the engineer repotted on the effects of the recent storm ,(tno heaviest' known for 25 years) on the works at the heads. Sound- ' ings showed the bar to have shifted 700 or' ■ 800 feet, to seaward, having from 15 to 20 inches loss water on it than before, but still, showing 24i feet at high water poor tides and 26J at spring tides. . The works, which had stood the test well, sustained but little damage, and were, evidently producing effects in ■ 'the desired direction. An opinion '.'was. -expressed by most of the members that when the works were completed the' bar would most probably bo swept to sea altogether by the scour. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society to-day the curator reported that there had been considerable mortality among the. -salmon since they had been turned into the races, probably throughthe low temperature of tho water. Be..tween 1000 to 2000 out of 12,000 had succumbed;' '■.:•■■

The Canterbury football team were met by a crowd of footballers and others on arrival and enthusiastically received. The Otago team has been changed, Vallanged having been substituted for Austin as fullback, and Miller for "Wedderspoon as three-quarter, ,both Austin and Wedderspoon having received injuries last Saturday. To-day has been bitterly cold, enow lying ofrthe surrounding hills. This evening snow commenced to fall heavily, and for over an hour the snowfall was one of the severest experienced for years. It is still (10.30 p.n>,) : snowing, but not bo heavily. ' '

Invekcakoili., Thursday.

In the Supremo Court to-day William Martin, ' an old settler, 60 years of age, was found guilty, of poisoning a neighbor's horses by mixing phosphorised oats with 'their feed. ' The prosecntor had married -. Martin's' daughter very much against -her father's wish, and this was supposed to have been the cause for his poisoning the horses. .Mr Justice Johnston, in passing sentence of 12 months' hard labor, said that lint for prisoner's age his punishment would have been, a term of .penal servitude, as the crime was a most atrocious one.-^Johu Mercer was indicted for shooting a sheep and stealing, the carcase at Kiiigstone, Lake Wakatipu. Tho accused, who is now serving a term of imprisonment for stealing Railway Department,; tarpaulin and fishing nets, was alleged" to have) shot sheep off runs and to have thus supplied his workmen with meat. The jury were unable to agree, and were locked np for several hours. -They' then^retu'rned . a verdict of guilty, and the accused was sentenced to two years' hard labor. ...