TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1464, 6 February 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Sir Julius Vogel w ill arrive in Auckland in a fortnight and will address the citizens. The coming licensing elections at Auckland are exciting great interest. An accident took place on the. railway at the Summit, Wellington, on Wednesday. Fourteen loaded trucks were being shunted, when by some means they got beyond control, and ran on to the main line and down the incline towards Kaitoke. After running about a jnile. four of the trucks went over the embankment and were smashed to pieces. The next four left tbe lino but were not damaged, and were in stopped on the other side. During his recent Southern visit the Minister of Justice while visiting Lyttelton Gaol was appealed to by Butler, the well-known convict, who had passed many years > in gaol, for a remission of the sentence he is now passing. In favor of his appeal he said hia incarceration was making h>ra more hardened, and unless he was now liberated when he did get free he would commit some serious crime. His threats, however, had no effect on Mr Tole, who could not see his way to grant Butler s request, A prisoner in gaol at Wellington named Richard Farrell has forwarded a petition to the Minister of Justice praying to he released, on the grounds that he is 75 years of age, and has been in gaol twenty years, Farrell was sentenced to death on the Ist February, 1866, for the murder of his mate at Napier, but the sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, and he has now served twenty years in gaol. Nothing was decided in this case, but it is improbable be will be released. A prisoner, who bad been sentenced to life for murder and after serving fifteen years was liberated 12 months ago, writes to Chief Gaoler Garvey (Wellington), from New South Wales that he is doing well and earning from £4 to £5 a week there. A large number of temporary hands in the Property Tax Department have received notice that their services will not be required. Further detachments are to follow in a few days. A deputation representing the commercial interests, waited on the Minister of Justice at Wellington on Wednesday, suiting that the stoppage of Mount Cook prison was not the popular wish of Wellington. The Minister said the matter was of serious moment, and would not be definitely settled until a full meeting of the Cabinet. A wrestling match at Christchurch on Tuesday evening (Cumberland style) between flarry Dunn and George Robertson was won by the former. The Christchurch Gas Company held their annual meeting on Tuesday, and the report showed a balance to credit of profit and loss of £17,933, out of which £BOOO had already been paid as an interim dividend. It was decided to pay a further dividend of 8 per cent. The Company have over fifty miles of mains laid. The Manapouri has brought from Melbourne and Hobait a number of merino pedigree sheep for shipment per Doric to the Argentine Republic. A number of Border Leicester will be taken from Port Chalmers for the same destination. The Sounds prospectors, Suther'and and Richardson, have been promised three months’ provisions conditionally on sending regular reports to the Minister of Mines, to whom they exhibited samples of rough beach gold. Southland farmers are complaining of the shortness and lightness of the oat crop, and with these prospects stocks of oats are being firmly held, A Bub-Committee appointed by the Christchurch Industrial Association have reported that Messrs Scott 8r05.,, the contractors for the construction of ten locomotives for the Government, have not attempted to evade any of the conditions of their contract, and the Association appointed a deputation to ask the Minister of Public Works to inspect the material which has been condemned by the inspector. Policy-holders in the Government Life Assurance Association at Hokitika have passed resolutions condemning Mr Driver’s appointment, and a'so the construction of the palatial buildings contemplated in Wellington, anti the purchase of unsuitable buildings in Christchurch.