FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 111, 8 January 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Napier has suffered much from drop The Thames yielded (51,6070/, of last year. The Thames Valley radway has b commenced. The Government estimate the prnce from the sale of the reclaimed lain 1 £500.000, with which they purpose c structing the West Coast railway I (North Island). __ _ i A scheme for a Vesuvius railwu similar to that constructed for the asce of the Rigid, has been,’approved by t; Snnerior Council of: Public Works ; Naples. 'U f The number of prisoners in the Ca terbury gaols at the end of December w> 107. The number received into prise during the year was 346. j Rewi has got himself into trouble wifi his native friends for his sayings undoings at Taranaki. i Efforts are-being made to obtain a conn mutation of the sentence of death pro.) non need on the murderer Welsh. It appears unlikely that they will be fnl. | The drought at Napier was broken on; Sunday by a heavy thunder and rain storm. f 0:. Judge Johnston, at Christchurch, i peals the usual judicial condemnation | the reckless manner in which tradesmen and publicans especially, cash cheques f d strangers. I Mr Charles Bright, the freetbonghlector r, and Mr Green an Evangelis:.| preacher, are to discuss publicly cert ain religious topics. The discussion will, by reported and published. \ I Mr Kinross, a candidate for the Houjsel of Representatives contends that every I election day should be a public holiday. I He would give women a vote as ttie married hive more interest in gooid | Government than the unmarried. 4 ■ Trains will be run at reduced rates for q- | short time on the opening of the through; | Chrislchurch-liivercargill line. 1 | The Anti-Chinese strike on the other | side has terminated. The seamen return | to their former places, but the ,company 1 are to employ 180 Chinamen. The strikers arc to be paid their wages up to the day of the strike. Mr Vailey, the Evangelist, runs small chance of receiving as hearty a welcome in New Zcabnid as did Dr Somerville. He left Sydney ■ some ti ne in December for New Zealand. In Ids concluding lecture, which was on “ Denominationalisui,” lie fell foul of the churches a’l round—reserving his sever -st castic-fji-tion for the, Presbyterian Church. Tjbe editor of the 4 Evangelist ’ has letter* from two eld friends which relate some of the terms he emp'oyed, but which that, gentleman refrains from quoting, and deeply regrets that a man of so u\ncb. :U power, and who has a marked strairjhj|';■ denominatioiialism, should alow iTITmV 1 to mar much good work by an exp'o-uo’ of sec ari uiism unworthy of him. Janv-s APen Mackie, manager of tlu Bank of New Z ad-m 1 at the Upper and Lo ver Hutt, w is charged at the Resident Magislrate’s Court on January 3rd with forging a <-heque for LI3OO with intent (c defraud the hank, and the larceny ox Ll3lo.—Defendant, it was alleged, had-, tiled up a, bbmk cheque given to him a customer for the purpose of transfer* s*' 5 *' ring a small account from Carlyle for LI3OO, to cover his defalcations, which he admitted to. An ac'-ormtant was sent to examine his accounts, and found that the defalcations bad been going on .for two years. Mackie was committed for trial. If is said that his salary was only L 175 a-year.