TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1418, 14 November 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At a meeting of the Few Zealand ' Native Settlement Company, Auckland, the Hop, Dr Pollen presiding, the report showed that land transfer titles bad been obtained during the year for acres, valued' at £44,769, , whjlej'olfier valuable properties b**d been gazetted for .the issue of titles at short .ditto. The value to credit of profit , and loss had increased during the year from £20,573 to £111,977. The expenses of. manage* meat shpwed a reduction of .'£lsos. The value of properties stood ai; £266,983. ■ Messrs DeLautpur, Buqhanan, McDonald, .WiPeje, T.. Buddie,,.anti. Rum ■Fere, elected, as'Hireptors.'- Chairman said,...ihp..whplp_the Directors *utid U P the Company in, the e_ps|^»t) a 9d best way pg^ij^le. The second..antiuul jnaeupg of sharehold ere in ( the Few .Zea,land, Frozen ~ Meat and Storage Auckland, on ,}Mr ;| Aiftbnr Bull, ; the, Chairman: .of' . Directors, -.presided. Ttiere ; waß;a J V £S47Z, ,6’dPno Whisker and Mr A. Bull, were electe^ t oirect'brjf, ,While / the excursionists- wpiV it'ihe pn M6hdky,V£irl 'who was Fading! near 'the breakwlte^Vas caught by a w,ave and swepfc roun,d, "tfea end of the molbj ! a distancb of "thirty yards on the other, side,. A younghnan named William Bruce rescued °her by in. Before d'oSng so. he threw _ off .bis. eVf(i watch' in the pockety and on rethrnibg thibvy'kß'raissing. It is supposed to have' be'ad cltrViod away from . i This makes the life.'Brbca- bag saved, the other onebeing Wilcooks, at Blenheim, in 1879. , . , , Major Jervois, who succeeds Mr Poonofalher as Private Secretary to v tfie Governor,"~will shortly arrmruTWeTfinglon. It is understood that though his services in defence matters will be available they will be purely honorary. The Cambria mine, Thames, cleared up after a fortnight’s crushing, ,4160za gold. The ’miWe Jhks ‘paid £4825 in dividends in eleven mdnthfi.* , The prisoners Hackett and Harrison, .who attempted, to escape from tile hard labor g^g'at, Mount Eden, Auckland, have been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Their previous sentences were three and six months’ respectively. The s.s. Mawhera arrived at Auckland on Thursday from Samoa and a general Island cruise. She brings no news of importance. Everything wasquiet at the various Islands she callod-at during her'trip. ;, : 'i .-f ; Messrs Bartholomew’s steam sawmills at; Feilding; wore burped down- at one o’clock.. on ; Thursday , mqrpingi. /They Fere insured in the New Zealand' office for £2OOO. The estimated loss is £6OOO. At Christchurch on Thursday night a largely attended, meeting of wbolgrowers was held atlthe Corn. Exchanges It was decided to form a New Zealand Woolgrowers’ Association, and .■; provisional rules were adopted. At a meeting of the creditors of A. Dornwell, butcher, Dunedin, the Assignee reported that, the business hpd; been carried on for-three weeks without capital, .and,on the face of it a profit ;of £7O per week was shown. The bankrupt submitted a statement, in which he said he was doing a good business, but had attempted a “ corner ” in oats by purchasing nearly all in Dunedin and Oamaru and had . shipped it off to Mauritius, tho Cape, etc., and, probably a loss of £BOOO resulted. Tbo Assignee was.,authorised to carry on for, another three weeks. • ' -, On Thursday William Hanlon, a workman on Falloon’s contract,, Pariroa railway, Auckland, struck a fpllow-wdrkman named Raymond Mathies cm the head with a shovel, laying open the 'temple and cheek. It appears That!.}the men belonged to two separate messing, parties in camp, and that ,water had to ba, fetched from a distance. Mathies was drinking some which had cbeen.carried; [up by Hanlon’s party, when, without warning, Hanlon approached Mathies from behind and struck him in the faceiwith the edge of his shovel as he turned round; to look who was coming. Mathies; will) probably recover! Hanlon was arrested,; j Dr James Taylor, »’ gentleman of high scientific attainments, who recently arrived from London, is now oti r F visit to Wellington. He 1 takes great interest in mining Operations, and will probably visit all mining centres with a view’of noting gold and qther mining operations in the colony. Mr Taylor 'oh Tuesday had an interview with thb Minister of Mines, who strongly recommended him to visit the WaitGoustjmd'Lofher.najq jpgeentres. The j interprovinclal'' draught match, Otago v, Canterbury, w'asJield at Christchurch on Wednesday, and resulted as follows Gariterbury h-ffQlfD 13, Otago won 7, draws J.B. Several of Otago’s best .were,absent. ...... ... A bayonet competition, in which nine corpk competed, took plape ini- the DrillChristchurch, night in; .connection with the, ■tal'qntqer Fancy Fair. liTheTipaaru took part in wliicb jWas won by the iChriatchuroh ArtUlery;-with 131 points,!thp, College :i o.ad,ets ( beiqg second with;l29,;and,theTimaru ArJ ( ill,ery third iwith; 128; The Rifie,,.competition was won by the Sydenham Rifles, ~j The 1 professional.. Boa-d of the University, Dunedin, have reporteiFagainst the wearing oi academical—costume by students or teachers. ; : s * 1 The body Of the lad Nicholas, supposed ro have been drowned while-fishing at the Ihybrcargill Jetty* on the 30th f ult., was found on Wednesday’ou the "beach at the heads. ■'