TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1471, 23 February 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Two women, named Ann Prouse and Ellen Finnigan, were sentened to six months’ imprisonment at the R.M. Court, Timaru, yesterday, for being the keepers of a disorderly house. They had just been released from gao 1 after serving three months. Six men, found in the house and arrested, ware dismissed with a caution.

Mr John Honeywell, a gentleman residing at Wakefield, was knocked down by a runaway horse at Nelson yesterday, and his spine is said to be injured. Nearly thirty volunteers leave Dunedin for Wanganui on Wednesday. The Clutha Rifles sent a very strong team. The s.B. Waihora reached Port Philip Heads at eight o’clock yesterday morning. At the Police Court, Invercargill, yesterday, a baker named Kenneth McKinnon was sentenced to two months’ hard labor for having, while drunk, assaulted an old gentleman on the railway station, Thomas Spencer, 18 years of age, was committed for trial yesterday, at Invercargill, for a criminal assault on Clara Butler, eleven years and four months old.

In the licensing election for Christchurch South-east on Saturday, the old Committee, supported by both the moderate party and the publicans, were returned by a majority of 2 to 1 over the temperance party candidates. Mr S. C. Farr, Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society, has undertaken, at the request of Sir Julius Vogel, to go to Auckland to receive the white fish and salmon ova expected by the Alameda and lonic, and to distribute it throughout the colony, Mr Farr will leave Lyttelton on Tuesday.

The amount collected for the Catholic Magdalene Asylum at Christchurch, including the contributions laid on the foundation stone, is over £IOOO. The ship Turakina was towed from Port Chalmers to Oamaru on Saturday to load with frozen meat. On entering the harbor the tow rope by some means slipped, and Captain Sewell, the Harbor Master, who was standieg on the forecastle of the ship, was struck on the leg by the rope, and sustained a fracture of the limb between the knee and the ankle.