TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1490, 8 April 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A number of the native chiefs, including Taoni Heae Te Parata, and Ngakurio, who have not been in Auckland since the war in 1863, are subpoiriaed as defendants and witnessess in the prosecution for criminal libel raised by Fraser, the native agent. The whole of the hands in the principal Auckland boot factories are now out. Dr Newman addressed the electors of Thorndon on Monday night and received a vote of thanks and confidence.

The Property Tax valuation for the city ot Wellington, exclusive of Government and corporation property, amounts to £3,697,764, and Government and corporation property to £1,123,064. Sir Julius Yogel intends to establish a system of return postcards, by which an answer can be sent back on the same ord without additional cost.

The Rev. MrMacfarlane, the missionary from New Guinea, delivered a lecture at Christchurch on Monday night lo a large audience. He deprecated settlement at present, but said that the interior of the country should be thoroughly explored, and he was convinced that a profitab e trade with the natives might be carried on in cedar, sago, and beebe-de-mer. A branch of the London Missionary Society, under whose auspices Mr Maafarlaue is lecturing, was formed at the meeting. The Government have been experiencing considerable difficulty in getting in rents from the pastoral tenants. So far as Otago is concerned, only £I6OO is outstanding. A Chinaman whoso name is unknown committed suicide by hanging himself, in Maclagglan street, Dunedin, on Monday morning. At the Dunedin City Council meeting the gas engineer submitted a report practically amounting to a recommendation that the whoI« works, at present arranged “ higgledy-piggledy,” bo rebuilt. He estimates the present cost price of leakage at £2OO. William Bland, residing at Ashburton porks, was found shot in his slaughterhouse on Tuesday morning. It is pra sumed he was liking down a loaded gun from the rafters, an! that the trigger caught in a meat-hook. At the inquest on the body of Edward Fuller, the principal in the Achilll tragedy a verdict of felo de se was returned ; also, at the inquest on the girl a rerdici that he was guilty of the wilful murder of Emily Keiling. The girl’s funeral was attended by about 7000 persons. Her letters read at the inquest had been written about two years ago. The Governor and Major Bodbam inspected the fortifications and hatteiiea of the the Auckland harbor on Tuesday. In response to requisitions signed by leading citizens Sir Julius Yogel has decided to address a public meeting in Wellington on political ques'ions. The date is not yet determined upon, but probably it will be on the 20tb.

The Ross United Company's mine has been pumped out and the men sent below again. The pumps have drained the workings in the unprecedentedly short time of three days, and are working splendidly. A Wanganui settler named Grant on Tuesday recovered judgment against the New Zealand Shipping Company for £23 16s, value of a portmanteau and parcel attached delivered at the Company’s shed, Albert docks, and lost on the way. The defence was that the goods were stolen by a stowaway, who was handed over to (he British Consul at Teneriffe, and that plaintiff had said nothing, about his. loss till his arrival at Teneriffe. It was shown, however, that the deerskin forming part of the parcel had been appropriated by one of the ship’s company, and judgment went for plaintiff. At the Auckland Presbytery a resolution was carried protesting against any compromise by the Imperial Government permitting France to take possession of the New Hebrides Islands. The resolution set forth the lives sacrificed and the money spent by the Presbyterian Church in those islands in the cause of Christ!anity and civilization.

The racing rules, as proposed by the sub-committee of the Canterbury and Dunedin Jockey Club”, were adopted at a special meeting of the Dunedin Club on Tuesday evening.

A woman named Grace Morris made a peculiar defence to a charge of committing a breach of the peace in the streets. She stated at Glover’s temperance meeting M.H.R.’s and Ministers were setting up a piece of blue ribbon and worshipping it, and she was bound to protest. She was discharged and cautioned not to offend again, but this she would not promise.

Mr A. H. Ross addressed his constituents at Roslyn, Dunedin, on Tuesday evening. The meeting was of rather a noisy character, and a vote of want lof confidence was carried against one of thanks. Mr W. L. Bees delivered an address at Wellington on Tuesday night on his colonising and emigration scheme. A resolution was passed agreeing with the proposals. The resolution will be considered by the Council of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr Ormond addressed his constituents at .Napier, on Tuesday evening in the Theatre Royal, which was closely packed. A large number of ladies were present. He said that Mr Stout, by his action since he formed the present Ministry, had forfeited all claim to be the Liberal leader of New Zealand. He denounced Six Julius Vogel’s recent proposalsas being of a most reckless character, and said he was a determined opponent of Mr Rallance’s native policy, which he considered a retrograde one. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried by , acclamation. J An elderly man named Charles Harry Murray was found dead in bed his house Peterborough street, Ch church, on Tuesday morning. inquest the jury returned a verdi deceased committed suicide chlorodyne while in' a state of insanity. He left a written his wife ns the cause of the been drinking a little and employment, Mr R. coroner, called attention to chlorodyne, which was evident dangerous drug, was not list of poison, of which obliged to keep a record of sale.