TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1460, 28 January 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Six wheat stacks have been deatroyed on the farm of Mr Smith, Mangere, Auckland. The losa ia £6OO, and the stacks were uninsured. Tha fire originated through a smoker throwing down a lighted match. Hone Ngatena, a half-caate was committed for burglary at Hamilton on Saturday. A youth named Lyman, alias Sullivan, said to have been busbranging in the Kaipwa district, has been arrested after a police pursuit of several weeks, H.M.S. Opal, which arrived from Hobart on Saturday and coaled at Kawakiiwa, left at 4.30 on Monday afternoon under sealed orders. Bush fires are again breaking out at New Plymouth. Dooohy’s house at Waipuka was in great danger on Monday evening, also Rhydes* on the Durham Road, near Inglewood. Great care is necessary to prevent the railway bridges being burnt. Men are up all night watching them. Miss Welchman, the typhoid fever patient at tba quarantine station, Wellington, is progressing satisfactorily.

A man named Richard Hecker uattempted suicide at Wellington, by swallowing a quantity of laudanum. The cause is believed to be a quarrel with his wife. The police removed him to the Hospital, Admiral Tryon and party in the Hinemoa did not land at Akaroa, but, after a brief survey, went on to Lyttelton, He eulogised Akaroa as a truly magnificent harbor, while his impression of Lyttelton harbor is not very favorable. After visiting the gracing docks the Admiral went by special train to Christchurch where he remained the guest of the Governor until his departure for Dunedin. The case of Studholme v. the Queen, which has been before the Supremo Court for some days at Christchurch was decided on Monday evening when the jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for £4OO. The claim was made on the ground that sparks from a railway engine had set fire to plaintiff’s run. .Notwithstanding that it was proved that a spark deflector had been in use in the engine’s funnel, the jury found that the Government had been guilty of negligence, chiefly on the ground that brown coal bad been used at the time. At the Bankruptcy sitting of the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Monday, the Judge suspended the order of discharge for twelve months of Robert Driver, notwithstanding that the creditors had signed a requisition recommending the granting of his immediate discharge. In the case of J. W. Pauline, the landlord claimed to be allowed to prove on the estate for £IBO damages sustained by reason of a disclaimer of the lease by the Official Assignee, who refused to receive proof. His Honor fixed £l4O as damages, and " allowed the landlord to prove for that amount. A telegram frem Taupo states that the Native Land Court, which opened there on the 14th instant, under Judges Brookfield and Scanned, has made good progress with the Tuwharatoa tribal claims, called the Taupo-Muta block, containing an area of over a million acres. The great tribes of Ngatimaniopoto, Wanganui, and Ngatikahuigunu have all acceaded to or withdrawn their opposition to the boundanss laid down by Te Henbeu, the head chief of Tuwharatoa, and also of the Arawa. Only one small claim of a hapu, seeking admission, remains to be decided by the Court, after which the" h>>pu claims will be allocated, if so desired. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Monday afternoon, Frank McDowell was charged on remand with embezzling two sums of money belonging to James McDowell. Prosecuting counsel asked permission to withdraw the information, as he was unable to prove the specific amounts; he intimated that a fresh information would be sworn against McDowell for embezzling a sum of £9O 0s lid, the moneys of James McDowell. It is expected that Sir George Whitmore and Major Boddam will leave Wei- ' lington on Friday next to join the Admiral in his inspection of the Southern defences. The proposals of Admiral Tryon ie the establishment of an Australian Navy will be discussed immediatjly there is a full Cabinet in Wellington, and a formal reply will then be forwarded to the Admiral. No further information has been received re the reduction in cable charges. Le Seur, a bookmaker, was on Tuesday imprisoned until six o’clock in the evening at Wellington, on a charge of using obscene language in the telegraph office. The Trade Congress met at Wellington on Tuesday. Mr Grant was elected President, Mr Murcshui (Port Chalmers) and Mr H. R. Jury ‘Vice-Presidents, and Mr M. W. Farnall Secretary, There was a very small attendance of southern delegates, which is ascribed to commercial depression in the South. The Public Works Department have interfered with a Christchurch firm of founders, whoss tender was accepted for the construction of locomotives, and it is said that a large quantity of material used in constructing has, contrary to the specifications, been imported from England, The specifications stated that the whole of the material required in the construction of locomotives must be worked in the colony, and|that nothing, exsept in a crude stats must be imported, with a view to encouraging localjndustries. The price paid for the construction of these locomotives was about £270 above those imported from England, and it is understood that notice has been served on the contractors, to the effect that a large quantity of imported n aterisl has been condemned, as it bears marks of workmanship.

The Samoan chief* returned to Wellington from Mksterton on Tuesday afternoon, While there they were interviewed by Maori chiefs, who welcomed them and gave an invitation to the Samoans to visit Te Aro, which they did. The Samoan representatives express their intention of returning home by the San Francisco mail steamer, which leaves Auckland on Tuesday next, but it is considered doubtful whether they will he able to get away. A meeting of the Executive Council was held on Tuesday afternoon, the Hons. Messieurslinllancs, Buckley, and Pichardson being present. The business transacted was purely formal. A sale of small grazing runs in Tiger Hill, Swinburn, Strath-Taieri, Maniatoto, and Silver Peak district, took place at Dunedin on Tuesday. A fair number of lots were knocked down. The total amount realised was £1246. Before the sale commenced several bidders objected to the conditions, which disallowed one man from buying more than one run, as being contrary to the Act. A cricket match at Dunedin, Openly Company v. Press, was won by by one run. At Dunedin a man named Peter Reitz, fell from ths top of a building, about 30 feet, and had several riba fractured,