TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1467, 13 February 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A boy, four years of age, named Simon Millington, was run over by a tram car at Ponsonby (Auckland) Hiid instantaneously killed. He got confused, and ran past.the front of the horses, which knocked him down, and the wheel crushed his head.

Mr Glover closed his temperance mission on Wednesday night at the Theatre Royal Auckland, which was crowded. He leaves for Wellington by the s.s. Tarawera. A charge of shocking cruelty to a horse was heard at Brightwater Court, Nelson, on Wednesday, Willian Norris and David Currin being charged with cruelly beating and illtreating a horse by kicking and and beating it and pulling off a portion of its tongue, causing it such torture and injury that it became necessary to destroy the animal. Norris was sentonced to one month's hard labor ; Cnrrin being fined £5 and costs. T.ie horse it appeared refused to move, and as it started kicking the defendants whipped atd beat ii, ultimately catching hold ;if its tongue, some five inches of which came a*ay. They afterwards took the horse away and shot it. Norris st't.-.d in Court that he had been drinking "Q ' k' lcvV uwtliing of what had oceuned.

At the licensing uomiiutioiif>, Dintdin, on Wedueaday, fi»e pi.rsous were supported by the temperance purty and five by tue licensed victuallers for the city, i'he publicans deptecafe, the non-granting of bottle licences by Commits as being a matter for Parliament to ddal with.

The dead body of a European, unknown, about foity years of age, w<tr< found at the Miranda beach (Auckland) on Friday last. The faco wab unrecognisable through decomposition. I'licic were a number of incised wounds on the head, caused apparently by a touuhawk. The jury returned a verdict to t'le effdd tliat it is believed deceased met Ida deal I > through foul pluy,

His Eminence Cardinal Moran is ex« pected to lay the foundation stone of tha Magdalene Asylum at Christchurch next week.

At the R.M. Court, Ashburton, on Wednesday, William Allington, alias Jacob Wilson, was committed for trial at the Supreme* Court for housebreaking and larceny at the Hinds. The Auckland Timber Company pay no interim dividend at the rale of 10 per cent per annum for the half year ended December 31st,

An Auckland girl of seventeen attending the High School at Napier has my»tfrious'y disappeared. She left school on Wednesday to lunch wit!; a friend, but never reached the friend's house. •*

The only trace of her is that she called and nought a box of matches at u store »t the Spit. The police have sc< u/ed the towns and hills, but cannot find anything. Nothing whatever, which might account for her disappearance, can be found out, Captain Medley's appointment «» Aid-

He-camp to the Governor is gazetted. The B.s. Hineinoa will probably leave Wellington for Kawhia on Monday next, and thence will proceed to Waiwera and rutum to Wellington with Sir Julius Vogel, The Wellington Woollen Kactory expects to commence active operations in June next.

The natives of Parihaka are actively engaged miking through the pah a road which will join the Government road. The sanitary condition of th« pah will he : mproved. Te Whetu, who was the lender of the fencing obstructions in 1881, in one of the principal workers on the roail. v

At tba fifth annual meeting of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company on Thursday 18,743 shares were represented. The director's report stated that the cost <>f currying out the present contract for a 1000-feet bore would be '2s per share. The Company's title to the land where tlieir works are situated was complete. the expenditure for the past half-year was £I9OO.

The extension of the northern railway to Culverdcn, seventy miles from Christchurch, whs opened on Thursday with & cheap excursion, which was patronised by 700 people. No Christchurch Volunteer corps will Ht-nd a team to the Rifle Association meeting at Wanganui, as the cost would be considerable, and few men could afford tu lose the time. Sorte individual members, however, will attend the meeting. At the meeting of the Otago Acclimatisation Society ou Thursday, it was resolved to inform Sir Julius Vogel thai o ving to the shortness of the water supply, the Society will not be able to take charge of any of the salmon ova which Government are introducing. Of 'he recent shipment the Society have 4000 in the ponds making good progress. Since November 1883. the Society has distributed 191,000 trout.

The Dunediu Harbor Board have resolved to abolish the rate on exports inter pro vi/icially, and to add the Is rate hitherto levied on these to the import rate, which will stand at 3a, except in the case of coal, which will be 2s.