TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1410, 27 October 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Tongariro, for London from Auckland, sailed at one o’clock yesterday morning. Cost ley’s trustees intend erecting the Costley Industrial Institute for Boy* at Surrey Hills, Auckland, the building to cost £2OOO. Grogan, one of the first Wanganui prospectors, has received a telegram from Kauraki, chief, offering him permission to prospect Tuhuo, and has decided to accept the invitation. John Robertson, a passenger from Dunedin to Abbotsford an Saturday night, fell off a carriage near the guard’s van and was killed instantaneously. He was somewhat under tho influence of drink at the time. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received the following cable dated London, October 24th The R.M.S. Ruapehu, left Plymouth to-day full of cargo and passengers. She calls at Teneriffe and Cape of Good Hope. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London branch, dated 23rd October, 1885 : Tallow Market overstocked. Town melted is cheap. Both mutton and beef tallows, of New Zealand make, have declined 9d per cwt. The Bill referred to iu the Pres* Association’s telegram from Christchurch on the 22nd., the object of which was to deal with Lake Ellesmere, was simply a rough draft giving effect to the purpose, to render the reserves set apart for the Akaroa railway (which are now for the most part under water) saleable, and the measure has not in any way been adopted by the Government or submitted to the Crown law officers. The lumpers’ strike has ended at Port Chalmers. At a meeting held on Friday evening, it was decided that the men resume work on Saturday morning, and accordingly a gang of left to discharge the ship Waipa at the Dunedin wharf.