TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1437, 5 December 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The principal Kingite chiefs have issued a manifesto, addressed to Maoris and Europeans, protesting against the gift of 400,000 acres at Rongitoto made by the tribe of Ngatemakore to the Waikatos. The Manapouri brought from Sydney gold valued at £25,000 for the Bank of New Zealand. An enthusiastic meeting of miners and others was held at the Thames (Auckland) on Wednesday evening in connection with the School of Mines which it i* proposed to be organised in the district. An Associalion was formed for the purpose of cprrying out the object. A house at Kaikora (Hawkes Bay) occupied by W. Anderson, fellmbnger, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. It was insured by the owner for £203 in the National ; the furniture was insured in the South British for £3O by Anderson. Owing to suspicious circumstances, Anderson was arrested. Sir W. Jervois inspected the Lyttelton defence works on Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by Colonel Lean, Majors Boddam and Eccles, ani Messrs Austin and BUir. His Excellency specially examined the sites for the proposed baiter ex on Ripa Island. Amos Cleig, a lad of 18, met with a serious accident at Christchurch on Wednesday afternoon. He stepped on the nave of a wheel, when his foot slipped through the spokes, and the horse started off. He was dragged along for fifty yards, and when the horse was stopped his leg was found to be broken almost off, only hanging by a piece of skin. At a meefcfog of the Hotipital and Charitable Aid Boards at Dunedin, on Wednesday, a secretary was appointed at £3OO a year. The provisions of the Act did not seem to*be clearly understood, and one member eontendedv the Board must, receive two subsidies from Government, one under clause 15 and another under clause 58. Bland and Dickson, brought back from Melbourne on charges of embezzlement from their employees, was committed for trial at Dunedin, on Wednesday. Bland was also comtrJtted on a second charge of stealing a gold watch, chain, and seal, the property of Messrs Stewart, Dawson and Co. Up to the present only twenty Rawkes Bay sheep-farmers have subscribed to the Australian Woolgrow;ers' Association. A meeting of the late Executive of the N.Z. Riflo Association was> held at Wangauui on Wednesday afternoon. Caps lin iSomerville was instructed to proceed to Wellington to try and arrange matters for the mee:ing to be held tq March next. The Executive consider that the Committee appointed by the delegates at Island Bay and confirmed at the general mealing of members held in Wellington is the present Managing Committee of the Association, ,

The Auckland Industrial Provident Society has declared a dividend and 3 per cent bonus, The Otairo tollgate on the CanterburyWest Coast Boad, against which there has . been a great deal of opposition, has been abolished. Major Badham aDd Lieut. Smythe (Torpedo Instructors), who are at present .in Canterbury, have received orders to proceed to Auckland to meet Admiral Tryon on his arrival there. His Excellency the Governor has received acab'egram from the Admiral, to the effect that he expects to arrive in New Zealand waters about the 15th lost. The steamer Mohaka, which was sunk iu the Opawa River, has sustained such injuries that it ia doubtful whether the owners will go to the expense of repairing her. Fifteen essay* on the present condition aad future prospects of the industrial resources of New Zauland have been already sent in. The Hod. Mr Balance has received repoitathat the M .oris are taking advantage o f the Qualification of Electors Act-1879, und are registering for the franchise which give 3 them the right to vote for European Members of Parliament. Drs Townend, IVankish, Stewart, Guthrie and Anderson have baen elected members of the Honorary Stuff of the Christchurch Hospital. At the mnual meeting of the Northern Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Company, Auckland, the report showed the sales to be £BOOO over last year. A ten percent, dividend was declared and £5Bl wan carried forward. The Hon. Mr Ballance, will address his constituents at Wanganui early in January, after which he visits the South on business connected with various departments under his charge.

Mr J. But'er, who has for some years held the position of private secretary to successive Native Ministers, has been appointed senior Land Purchase Commissioner for the Government. Mr T. W. Lewis, junr., succeeds Mr Butler as private secretary. The Gazette notifies the appointment of P. C. Bell, Ashburfon, and W. 0. Beswick, Timnrn, as Deputy Assignees. The resignation of J. G. Shriuipton, Christen urch, as J.P., is accepted.

Government have received the following telegram re the Pohatigina reefs from Mr James Park, of the Geological Department :—" Visited Pohan£ina on the 29th. The slip lias been cleared, and the supposed reef uncovered. It turos oat to be a small muss of whitish grey stoue, embedded wiih the rock of the country. It is slightly chrystaliaed, and the prospectors took it for quartz. The men on the ground have not even seen a color of gold, and are greatly perplexed at the fabulous results of the assay by jewellers, which are probably based on globule of silver derived from lead. Oxide was used as re-agent in assay. The rock is the same as at Eimutaka Gorge." Dr Hector reports to the Minister of Mines of the specimen quartz sent for analysis by the Christchurch Gold Mining Company, Browning's Pans. The analysis proves that the yield of gold is at the rate of 16ozs lldwts lgr per ton. Government have recaived a telegram from Rotorua stating that no evidence was offered on behalf of Mrs Graham ngainst the natives who took part in the recent disturbance there, and the accused «ere accordingly discharged. A Special Committee of the Lyttelton Harbor Board has recommended that the staff of the Board should be reorganised.

A hurdle race between Mr Sheenan's Medico and Mr Higgiu's Secretary came off on Thursday on the Heathcote racw course. The match was eleven stone up ; one mile ; over eight flights of four feet hurdles ; for 50 flovs a side. Secretary was the favorite, bnt came to grief at the fifth hurdle, and D. Mitchell, who was riding, received some nasty cuts in the face. Medico jumpe<l in good style, mid ountered round an<l won.

Professor McGregor's resignation, on account of his appointment to the Inspectorship of Lunatic Asylums, was received at the meeting of the University Council at Dunedin on Thursday, and a resolution was passed of the Council's appreciation of the manner in which he jj a d carried out his duties.