TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7681, 15 January 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

r (UNITED PRESS . ASSOCIATION.> < Auckland, January 14,

Another color has been given to the Waikato mystery. Two meo, named McKlrny and Gallfoyle, made a stuitom n‘ to the police that they observed a bndv floating d »wn the Waikato River on Decern »3i 20th, the day preceding the discovery of the body supposed to be that cf Dunbar.

At the Grand Lodge session of Good Templars, the report showed that the Lodge was in a healthy condition, numerically and financially. The Hon T. M. Slattery, late Minister of Justice for New £outh Wales, left by the Te Anau on a tour of the Colony.

The Auckland clerical and lay representa tives left to day to attend the Wesleyan Conference at Christchurch.

John Knox and James Maloney, arrested for stealing yaohta, have been committed for trial.

Dunedin, January 14, Ninety‘3lx men were engaged to-day, and proceeded to Melbourne by the Manapouri. At the Presbyterian Synod meeting a satisfactory report by the Temperance Committee was adopted. A'l the ministers o( the Church, save five, are pledged abstainers* An old resident named Carrlok was taken ill while taking a hot bath this afternoon, and died before reaching the Hospital. Congestion of the brain was the cause. la the Police Court a man named James Counsel was charged with wife desertion. It came out that his wife, under many disguises, bad traefed him all over the globe, including America, France, and Australia, finally bunt* iog him down. The case was adjourned in the hope of a settlement being effected. New Plymouth, January 14.

The Primitive Methodist Conference has passed a resolution of sympathy with the sufferers by the fires. In the station list, the following are the ministers for Wellington (1). P. N* Hunter ; John Dumbell, supernumerary j (2) W. S. Potter. Christchurch, January 14,

At a meeting of the Southern Cross Petro. loum Company, held to-night, tbe contract of Mr Stubbs to bore a well to a depth of 1000 feet for £2600 was accepted. The work is to be completed within seven months. Among tbe passengers by the Rofcoxnahana for tbe North to-day were a dozen members of tbe Ballarat and Ballarat City Fire Brigades, on their way to take part in the coming Fire Brigade competition at Napier.