TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1452, 9 January 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The programme of the New Zealand Rifle Association meeting will lie pub* liahed on tbe : 15th inst., and will, be immediately forwarded to the members of the Association and captains of corps throughout the colbny. The programme is somewhat similar to that of last year. The amount of money to be competed for is about £950. ■ There is an extra match added ; 200 yards, standing, 10 shots. The Wanganui match will amount to £IOO in money and many valuable trophies. There will be open only one team match, open to'all branches of the service, the 'first prize for which will be £SO and the championship of the colony. The register keepers will use blackboards in addition to scoring sheets, and competitors will not be allowed near the K gister keepers. The meeting will be got through in seven days. Proceedings in the “ Maritana’’ copyright case against the Majeroni Opera Company have been stayed, the defen-' dauts paying all fees and costs. The injunction will accordingly be removed. The crops at Wellington are suffering from want of rain. Mr G. Beetham, addressed a large meeting of his constituents at Mastorton last Tuesday might. He was well received and was accorded a vote of thanks.

The Major has called a meeting of citizens to decide what steps should he taken to entertain Admiral Tryon during his stay in Wellington. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Wednesday afternoon, in the case of ilcMinn v.° E. Shaw, Mr Jellicpe, the prosecuting counsel, said he had received two telegrams from the prosecutor, stating that his absence had been occasioned by serious illness, but he hoped to be present at the adjourned hearing. ' . ' George Patchett s shop was broken into last Tuesday night, and jewellery worth £46 was stolen. Part of the jewellery was recovered on the fcMowing day in an outhouse some distance from the shop. Two men named Murphy and O’Sullivan have been arrested on suspicion. They were brought up and remanded till Saturday.

At a meeting of the Hospital Board on Wednesday Dr.Weetenra was appoinit-d hs House Surgeon to the Christchurch Hospital. The Union Insurance Company have declared their usual interim dividend of t«Q per cent.

On Wednesday a deputation waited upon the Minister of Justice to ask that the town of Oamaru might be granted the uap of'prison labor.'At the. present time prisoners sentenced' knd over are sent to Dunedin, and the Cor* poration asked the ‘Minister to allow these prisoners to be kept in the town and employed in breaking mAt-l for thstreets, The Mim«ier «f»idit. to «■

increase the >;(*st' of-super; lav! it, * t would make enquiries and ier the ■: j,„; . tion know. :

The crops about Oamaru are beginning to droop, and the grass is being burup. ' tl " '

One hundred. men were on Wednesday engaged at Dunedin trt proceed to M>*bonrne for the Union Stupping Con-' Hy, as lumpers in connection 1 with 'he strike there. The rate of wages is 45a per week. The office'was quite beseiged by 1 applicants. At the annual meeting of Eeast and McCarthy (Limited) the 1 report showdd’a balance to debit of ibe profit aritf lbes account of £II,OOO. At ari'ext&ordinafy meeting after wards] 1 it was resolved to call up the remainder of tHe capital. 1 The 1 Union &&' Company 1 have ifeiii dered their thanks to the officer's and crew of the s.s. Wairarapa for their exertions in extinguishing the fire on board

Complaints are mad* that the,continued dry 1 weather is affecting the Southland crops,' ' r-i ■ '■ ■ - The Waikato mystery is not yet cleared up. The police ican find no traces of Jimmy Dunbar, and it is almost certain he is the murdered man.

The;captured carpet Snake 'has been handed over to Professor Thomas,- -whb chloroformed it; fit will be preserved at a specimen in the mnseutn of the Auckland University.' !(;' ?.V.> The i Waipawa Court sat till midnight on Wednesday. Agnes Moran,- domestic servant at an hotel was committed; for trial for the manslaughter of her illegitimate child, The Secretary of Education has issued a printed circular to School Committees and teachers drawing attention to the facilities supplied by the Postal Department for the investment of small savings by school childrehi ? ' - ' '

Regulations for a special settleme*t-to be formed by members of the police and the Armed Constabulary force, are gazetted, • T - The Hons. G. M, : Waterhouse and W. B. Mantel I, also W. F. L. Travers, are gazetted; as Governors of the New Zealand Institute. ' i - *■

James Young, M.D., is gazetted medical - superintendent—of the • Auckland’ Lunatic Asvlum. ‘ ‘

A letter from D’Urville's Island, dated the 14th ult, gives particulars of a fatal boat accident which l occurred eff tliere. ! A boat containing two Maori men, named 1 Matthew Ruraka and Teperi Turi, and a> ! Maori girl about 14, named Bella Daniel,, i left one of thi bays on the 2lst to procure nikau palms.!, On returning the boat was swamped and not a man of robust health, succumbed' tb exposure ' that . eveniag. Teperij : sifter'’ securing the''body 1 to I 'the I boat, intimated bis intention‘ not to survive his friend. ; He tbep sprang into the sea. The girl jumped in after him, and succeeded in getting him to the boat, but he was too eihaußtsd to recover. The girl lashed 1 herbodytothe boatallnight, , and the boat drifted" seaward, bat the ■ turn of the tide and a; chango of wmd sent it back to the place where the accident occurred, and the cries oLthe girl were heard by the wife of Matthew,; who put oft in a small dingy and rescued her. The girl hud been eighteen hour* exposed. The, two Godfreys and Mrs Howard were brought up at the B.M. Court, j Christchurch; on Thursday, and remanded I till Monday, January 25tb. Howard 'arrived the same morning, but was not' : brought up. A telegram from Wellington |states that Howard 1 was Ih th* habit of : wearing a glove with guttapercha in the I inside of the thumb to conceal the fact 'that part of the thumb was missing, j At an inquest held in Christchurch on , Thursday on Henry Smith Legge, a clerk 1 |in the Deeds Registry office, who died ! suddenly, it transpired that deceased life j was insured in the Mutual Association .Society of Victoria for £3JH, upon which the first premium had been paid on 'December 22nd last. Several bottles ;that had contained chloral word found in deceased’s room, and three similar bottles 'in his pocket. The Coroner, in view of 'these facts, ordered a post moritm exjaniioatlon to be made, and adjourned the inquest till Saturday.