TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1434, 28 November 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Trenton is scratched for the Auckland Cup. The medical examinatiou of the body of a child exhumed at Howick, Auckland, show no marks of violence. Do wing and Co.’s brewery at Whangarei, Auckland, was totally destroyed by-fire yesterday morning. Loss about £2OOO ; insurance, £BSO, mostly in the New Zealand office. | At Napier yesterday, Mr J. D. Ormond, M.H.R., presented Major Scully, late Inspector of Police, with a purse containing over 300 sova, subscribed as a mark of appreciation of his long and faithful services in the district. The presentation took place in the old Provincial Council Chamber in the presence of the leading citizens and country settlers, who heartily cheered the old veteran. The following is a summary of Hoadley and Co.,’s sale at Hastings extension (Hawkes Bay), on Thursday 278 small allotments realised £20,000 ; 7 lots of 5 acres, each from £BO to £9O per acre ; total acerage sold—loo acres realised L 23,144, or an average of £212 per acre. The sale was resumed yesterday. John McLaren, an old identity, while playing bowls on tha Cumberland street Green, Dunedin, yesterday, was seized with a fit and died within an hour. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court Blenheim, yesterday, Captain Eckford was charged with not sounding the steamer’s whistle after dark when leaving the Opawa, being a navigable river within the port of Wairau, pursuant to the Harbor Regulation 32, published June 5, 1883. The information was laid by Mr Hawley, Acting-Collector of Customs, Mr Sinclair, for the prosecution, did not press for a heavy penalty as Captain Eckford had already suffered heavily by the loss of the steamer, but urged that steamers were bound to whistle at intervals from the time they Jleave the wharf till outside the bar. Mr McNab, for the defence, admitted the whistle was not sounded until the collision took place, for several miles down the river, but contended that the strict letter of the regulations required whistling only just before crossing the bar, which must be strictly construed as leaving the river. The practice was to whistle when within hail of the pilot station. Mr Alien, R.M., held that the spirit of the regulations required mariners to sound whistles when going down the river at bends and dangerous places. He fined Captain Eckford 40s and 49s costs.—A similar charge against Captain Manning for not sounding the Waihi’s whistle when entering the Opawa river, and an information against the same defendant for not carrying the proper lights was postponed till Tuesday to enable the defendant to bring technical evidence from Wellington. Notice of appeal was given on behalf of Captain Eckford on the point of law.