TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1409, 24 October 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC.

The New Zaeland Art Students' Association, Auckland, opened with a conversazione on Wednesday night. The exhibition is fully up to last year's in merit. Three Frenc'i sailors attempted to desert from the Magon, lying at Auckland, last Tuesday night by swimming ashore, with their clothes on their heads and 6!h of tobacco each. In the darkness thc\v eluded the sentry by lowering themselves with rope j , but mistaking the direction, swam down the harbor ; the cold paralysed them, and they cried for help, whereupon theyweie rescued by a policeman, and handed over to the capiain of the Magon. Owing to the indisposition of Lady Jervois, His Excellency has postpone his departure for Jhristchurch. On the arrival of the Jane Douglas at Boston on Wednesday morning, Captain Fraser reported to the Collector o\ Customs that his ship had been in collision with the steamer Tui. In his report Captain Fraser atates that on coming oui of Wellington, after rounding Poin 1 Halswell, the Douglas leading, tln> Tui, approached the port side, a no although Captain Fraser three times requested the master of the Tui to starboard his helm, the latter kept on her course. The Douglas had rocks on her starboard side, and could not give w-iy, the result being that the ste.imeis collided for a quarter of an hour. Eventually the Douglas stopped at some risk, and the two boats then cleared. The report states that some of tli4 lady passengers became ill through the panic caused by the collision. An enquiry is to be held. ■ Albert Dornwell, a Dunedin butcher, has filed a petition to be adjudged! a bankrupt. His liabilitian are esfm ited at about £24,000, and the assets at £30,000. James Trischler, ex-barmin at Springfield Hotel, Blenheim, was charged on Wednesday with larceny of clothing and other article?, the property cf the wHpw of the late proprietor. H 3 was committi-d for trial at the Supreme Court sitting which has been fixed for Friday uex', \ Colonel Whitmore inspected the Marlborough Voluuteers on Wednesday afternoon in the presence of a great crowd of spectators, a half holiday being proclaimed. A rather peculiar case was heard at the Dunedin Resident Magistrate's Court, ion Wednesday, when J. Crawford sue i J. Caldwell for £SB 9*, for work done. The claim arose out of 'he gaol enquiry. Crawford, who had been w..rder u :der Caldwell, and three others, had formed a Committee to work up matter for a fresh inquiry, in which charges were formulated j

against Ciipt.j Hume. Crawford wa< Secretary, and now claims'! for work done. All four ex-warders uodtrstood : hey were to be replaced if the enquiry vere successful. Caldwell denied having i.iroojised payment, but had given money m a present. The case was dismisfeed for vf\at of evidence of expressed or implied contract. John Henderson, blacksmith, Outram (Otago), was crushed to death on \Vodnesdlly by a dray. Kisser has been committed for trial at Duuedin for embezzlement of t.he Victoria Insurance funds. A. deputation from Shag Valley waited on the Premier at Dunedin regarding the administration of the Rabbit Act in the lit-trict, and some very extraordinary charges were made against the local igenta. Just as the Arawa was on the point of having Auskland, last Thnraday evening a curi'-sity dealer named G enny vas disposing of a curio to a fiiciiiao in rh'.i 'tween decks when he was suddenly -eiz-d by a number of fi'em n in a dark corridor, and held till robbed of his watch, greenstones und gold Z| ,f the v la& f £3O. In the darktnss he could not iil&ntify his assailants, and as the officers could not trace the property the vessel sailed. The Raratonga Embassy have returned from the Waikato disappoinled at the low social condition of the Kingites. A man named Tnffs, wan drowned at New Plymouth on Thursday whilst bathing. His bndy was found among tha rocks. Mr J. W. Jackson's stables at Wangamij were burned to the ground last Thurs'i y night. -A colt by Mufti—Cheshire L>ind the horse Restive, winner of the Selling Race at New Plymouth,: and a pure-bred bull, Duke of Dmrimut, were lestroyed in the building, the flames liaving too great a hold to ullow of their being taken out. The insurance on the building in the South British was £2OO. There was 10 insurance on the stock. Tha c<nse o' c the fire is unknown. Mr Montgomery, M.H.R., for Akaroa, has devised a scheme for selling the Lake Ellesmere railway reserve, giving the purchasers power to form a Drainage Board md tax themselves for the purpose of ironing the lake. Tht» scheme has bef«n inbodiei by the Minister of j'ui-.i'! Worka in a Bijl which will be introduce.i nto Parliament next session. Mr G. A. Hala has relinquished his intention of seeing the Melbourne Cup J ace and will again go North. He is now at Itivercargill. At an inquest on th" body of Tainni. the vhori chiet, a A:ahura, Went Coast, tne jury found a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed while suffering from emporary insanity. Mr Mackay, the lite Commissioner, made an informal statement to the effect that the deceased was under a misconception, thinking that a ■slight irregularity which he had committed was a grave breach of the criminal law. The feeling of disgrace seemed more than he could bear. Tainni was formerly Member for the Southern Maori District in the House of Representatives, and 'vas much esteemed throughout the dis rict. The Native Reserves havH finished taking evidence at Uokiiika, md are now preparing rheir report on the state of the whole <d the reserves in Nelson and on the West Coast. At the Supreme Court, Ebkitika, on Thursday night in the case Webb v. Webb, application for a judicial separation, the petition was granted wish costs ; a maintenance order to ba issued from Wellington. In Mnlvey v. Mulvey, for div-rce, a rule absolute was granted, In the appeal case Zeigler and others v. Monckton, judgement was reserved. The Lumpers Union has been wound up at Lyttelton. Some of the members have gone to work and the remainder are prepared to do so. After a long hearing, the Resident Magistrate of Napier on Thursday comiiitted for trial a man named Charles Jcean Thompson on a charge of indecent issault on a little girl. Mr Grubb, Chief Postmaster at Napier lias received notice of his removal. He has accepted the office of Assistant Inspector. The Government have received a telegram from New Plymouth stating there is no truth in a rumor which has been circulated on the Weat Coait that Te Whiti had ordered the natives to plough up the settlers' land. There is some dispute about the native land titles, but it has no political significance. Regulations as to the pay of the \nned Constabulary field force are gazetted. Thursday, sth November, ia the day iixed fur h'-hling the first meeting of the Jiainci B >:;■■■ is of Administration Under die. Huspita.s und Charitable institutions Act. Tiie Hon. the Native Minister; arrived it Rahotu on Tuesday road 'ccently made by the uativen leading into the bush towards the mountains. On irriving ou the spot fixed upon, the* road .v.iß formally handed over to t'io Native Miniat r by Kihui, and Mr ,BiUhu>o,e,declared it to be opened. I his speech he s.iid that although the natives would noi, be cil'ed upon to pay;fori itß construction they would have to. p .y rates to maintain it in repair./ He said that Te Whiti had prophesied a great mmy things which had never come true, but he (Mr Balance) prophesied that at no diwiant date Te Whiti would ask the Government to nuke the road into Paribaln, and then, and not till then, would the Government m ike it. Mr Biillance had also an interview with the settlers, .ind to questions they put the answers in all cusen were satisfactory. Mr Billance said the time had come wheu settlers could do without the Armed Constabulary among them, as ibe natives seemed to be very peaceably inclined. This reply met with general approval.