TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1458, 23 January 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The returns of the Auckland Eaibor Boaid revenue for the past year show the net sum to be £3?,181, the largest ainoun! of annual revenue yet received. The Rationalist newspaper is to be resuscitated at Auckland and carried on by a Limited Liability Company. The ship Hurunui has been admitted to pritique ut Wellington. Miss Welchnvin, the typhoid fever patient, was allowed to go on shore on Thursday. The Samoan chiefs have visited the Gear Meat Preserving Co.'s works; subsequently they went on board the freezing hulk Jubilee, but declined to enter the freezing chamber. They were shown, however, a quantity of snow, which was an article they had never see» before in. their lives.

Richard Harper, the fisherman who was supposed to bave been drowned at Sumner last week, is said to have been in Lyfctelton since his disappearance from Sumner. It is conjectured he may have gone grass-seeding to the Peninsula. A child 18 months old, a son of (Jr. F. Smith, of Southbridge, strayed away from his home and was drowned in u creek near his father's house on Monday. At a meeting of the creditors of Pearce, a plumber, Dunedin, the statement prepared twelve months ago showed a surplus of £690, whilo now there was a deficiency of over £2OO. Mr W. Stuart r-tated that one result of the Married Women's Property Act had been to make a large percentage of wives owners of furnifiire, husbands b'.'ing able to assign without inteivo!jtii)ii of a Trustee. At a conference behvt-en Ministers-and Admiral Tryon a proposal was nnde by the Admiral to the effect that all the Australian Colonic*, including Njw Zealand, should contribute proj.oriinnately to their respective popu'atioiis to thy cost of considerable additions to the English Kjjj^n^h^acifio.

Three kdie» were thrown out of a buggy at Napier, on Thurndny, and one of them a Miss Speedy, fell on her head and was rendered unsconscious, and is in a very critical stats. The other two, tho Misses Williams, escaped with some severe cuts and bruises. The accident was caused through the horse bolting and bringing the bnsgy in contact first with a buggy and afterwards with a telegraph pole, which capsized it.

The two girls who stood for the highest junior scholarships at Dar.elin, are twins, and if they had been born a day later would have been disqualified. In the Supreme Court, Dunadin, on Thursday, the Judge ordered Sheriff Watt to file an affidavit to show cause why he should not be fined or ominitted for default in issuing a jury panel. In the Divorce Court, Dunedin, on Thursday a decree absolute with coats against the co-respondent was made' in Watson v. Watßon and Gillespie. His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by his private secretary, left Wellington for Lyttelton in the Hinemoa al 5 o'clock on Thursday evening. Admiral Tryon will leave for Lyttelton in the Hinemoa on Saturday next and will inspect the fortifications.

The body of a man named Charlet Blackett was exhumed at Maeterton on Wednesday, in connection with the severed hand case. The body was, however, found intact, A Supreme Court writ has been issued it Wellington against Jas. McDowell by \ftnnk McDowell for malicious prosecution. The case arose from tbo charge igaiust the last.named which whs heard id the Resident Magistrate's Court "ecently,Jand £SOO damages are claimed. Mr William Tomlinson, master of the Auckland College, went out at Nelson, on Thursday, intending to shoot gulls. He vas accompanied by his little son, and in climbing up the hill on the Wakapuaka road, he slipped, when the gun exploded, *nd the shot from the charge entered his body like a bullet. He was shot through the heart, and fell dead. The body was taken to the residence of some friends. (Ireat sympathy is felt for his wife and relatives..

An inquest was held at the Chrisichurch Hospital on Thursday afternoon, on vVitheis, a female patient who died the previous day. She had been s» ffering from dysentery, but Dr Bakewell, who was treating her, suspected she had lif-en taking poison to. procure abortion. The post-mortem did not reveal any signs if such an attempt, and a verdict of died from inflammation of the bowels was utiirned.

Professor Shand has resigned his seat Dti the Otago Education Board.