TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1433, 26 November 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Further details of young Hingstone’g death at Auckland shows that he was stung on the forehead twice by a bee, and in the evening while talking with a friend named Ford, he dropped down and shortly expired. Dr Wailing certified that his death was caused from blood poisoning through the sting of a bee. The Press Association agent at Invercargill wires as follows :—According to cable messages in the Melbourne papers, Mr Stead, editor of tbe Pal! Mall Gazette, was only sentenced to three months’ and Jacques to one month’s, imprisonment, and not three years’ and one year respectively as cabled to New Zealand. In connection with the New Zealand Rifle Association, it is understood that the Government will pay the liabilities of the old Association, and will deal liberally with the new Association, if placed under new management, as was proposed at the annual meeting in Wellington. * In the Court of Appeal, Wellington, the case of McQueen v. Dockery was on Monday called on. This was a complicated case, involving questions of' alleged hnproper sales of trustees’ estate. Judgment was reserved. At the adjourned meeting of the North Canterbury and Ashburton Charitable Aid Board on Monday, a discussion took place on the point raised at Auckland as to the Board’s powers. It was decided to go on with the business, the Board being of opinion that it had power to levy contributions, as if it had not it was virtually powerless to do the work for which it was formed. An attempt at incendiarism was made «t Christchurch on Monday night. Shortly before 7 o’olock a house owned by William Harrison, situated in Wilson Street, off Ferry Road was found to bo on fire. The fire was soon quenched, but in two of the rooms upstairs a number of rags saturated in kerosene and a quantity of the oil in tins was discovered. A candle stuck in a hole in a brick placed in the corner and surrounded by inflammable materials was also found. This had set fire to the materials, which had caught the walls and the roof. The house had been empty about three weeks, and was insured' in the New Zealand office for £175. William Harrison, owner of the house, was arrested on Tuesday morning charged with arson. He was brought up at the R.M. Court and remanded till Monday. W. J. G. Bluett, the well-known auctioneer and cattle breeder at I eeston, and at one time M.H.R., died on Monday night. The Union Company have received intelligence of the arrival of the Mararoa at Hobart at 2.30 p.m. on Monday. At a meeting of groceis’ assistants at Dunedin, it was resolved to endeavor to secure a half-holiday during the week. Mrs Gordon, the wife of a postmaster at North Taieri, by stepi mg off the wrong side of a train at Mosgid, fell, and the train passed over both hands, which will necessitate the amputation of at least one arm. The twenty-second anniversary of tha Battle, of , Rangiriri was celebrated at Hamilton (Auckland) by .a dinner. Two hundred sat down, including a number who were with the Imperial and Colonial troops at the time. The affair passed off with eclat. As a result of the recent police raid on restaurant and brothel keepers at Auckland for sly grog selling, four offenders have been fined. One* Samuel Cox, a negro, was fined £SO and costs, or one month’s hard labor, it being his fourth conviction. The total fine? ip the four cases amounted to £l3O. Steps are being taken by Cox’s solicitor to appeal to tha Colonial Secretary for a remission of a portion of the fine. The Bank of New Zealand at Hokitike on Tuesday shipped four boxes of gold, weighing 3772 ounces, valued at £15,000, being their month’s purchases.