TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1482, 20 March 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The ichooner Waireka is now a total wreck or the South Head, Hokianga. No lives were lost. The vessel is owned by Messrs Welater and Captain Johnston, of New Plymouth. The insurance is unknown.

At a meeting of native members of th" Roman Cstho’ c Church he’d at Hokianga l ] it wsa determined to p:ttion Hie Pope iu appoint Dp McDonald Bishop for the nstire rsce ; His Holiness to heesiced to improve the standing of native deacons. A petition for presentation to Parliament praying for the amalgamation of city electorates,. is in course of signature through the city of Wellington. Among the passengers for Auckland by the lon : c were Cowe and parly (17), most of whom were engaged in the fishing trade in Scotland, and intend to follow the same catling here. The enquiry into the management of the Auckland Old Men’s Refuge by the Executive Committee of the Hospital snd Charitab’e Institution Board is concluded. A resolution recommending the discharge of the manager, Walters, was coined. A murderers assault was committed by a Chaieaman at the Tam ka Ho'el, Taborite, on Wednesday night, on a wairer named Joe Wright. The Chin • man attacked Wright with a s'a-hsr, inflicting twos* vere wounds on the b-ck of the neck and one on the top of the hen-'. The injured m-iri was taken to Woodvllu, Dr Fnasell dressed the wounds, which are not so serous •» was at fist believed, Th# Chinaman has been arrested.

The priv te residence of Major Liddlo in Road, Fuilding, was boned down on Thursday morning. The insurance was in the Nort British and Mercantile Office, the house for £3o'l snd the furniture £2OO.

At the Supreme Court s?tfngs »-t Oamaru on Wednesday, Mary Ballar tyno W’« Renter ced to six month*-’ ttnprtsonment for keeping a flu<rleilv hois*. The jury were not able to agree in the ease sg- inst Mary Moran for infanticide, and »ere lorked up till the morning, when being unable to agree they were discharged, and the case will coma on again n**xt sis-don. The Mayor of Dunedin, who has tip to the present supervised the relief-work for the unemployed, lies declin-d to do so any longer, inconsequence of disapreements w?th Connrillors, and the men have been planed in charge of the City Surveyor. At the Wellington Supreme Court m banco, on Wednesday morning, an app ication was made to have Mr Edward Shaw, barrister, struck off 'ho rolls, on the gronnda of misappropriat on of a client’s money. Mr Jelbcoe made «ppl‘c»t ; on ou behalf of one Hmry St-vens, of Mes'erton, who had paid money to Mr Sh«w to prosecnte an action. The hill, for legal services waa never rendered, arid H“»ena • his c»se was thereby prejudiced. Tlte defence is that Mi Shsw l w*siuuJllgL, to attend through illness, and that ha authorised the engagement of norther professional gentleman. Judgnient was reserved.

A Mr* Sheehan attempted suicide >t T*i Tap", North Canterbury, on Wednesday by cutting her throat. She paitiaHy severed the windpipe, but as none of the arteries were cnt there are hope* of hep recovery.

The United Hospital end Ohar’tdilo Aid Board, Christehimh, on Wednesday, adopted the rerun t of their floramittee confirming the dismissal of Mr Ritchey, master of the Orphanage. Mr and Mrs Bromley, of the Burnham Industrial School, hare been appointed master and matron ot the institution. A deal of sympathy is fe'tfor Mr Ritchey, and there is a general impression that he has been hardly dea’t «ith by the Board. John McNally, emp'oyed as a lineman by the Telegraph Department, was tilled at Waipara on Wednesday. He was in the act of removing the blinkers from a horse attached to a waggon when the animal boated, and the wheel pasaed over the man’s head, killing him almost instantaneously. He leaves a widow and child. ■

Another cue of suicide is repotted, , John McNeill, a laborer, cmp’oyed ft Messrs McCsfferty and McKeudry’a farm, shout three miles from Met liven, No>tH Canterbury, cut Ms throat on Wednesday and died from the effects of the wound. The Serin- F"inoar Outrigger Race, at Wellington n-- a rowed on Thursday afternoon. The following crews competed WaVatu Rowing Club (Nelson), Union Rowing Club (Christchurch), Star Boating Chib (Wellington), Wellington Rowing Chib, and Canterbury Rowing Chib. After » good rsce with the Unions, lira Wskatu Club won by !a length and a-half, Canterbury Rowing Chib third, Stars fomtb, Wellington last. At Caversham a hotelkeeper was fined £5 and the conviction to bo endorsed on the license, for supplying liquor to a woman while she was i-toxicated. The s.s, Stella is to he sent to surrey Hydra rock, at Quern?town.; J. Reid, a Qne°U' t.iwn brewer, was on Thursday fined £9O, on two charges for breaches of the Beer Duty Act. Tho plant was also ordered to be confiscated. Bonjanvn OUerensh.vv, aged. Go, lessee of the Caversham quarry near Dunedin, was killed by a slip which took place on Thursday morning.