TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1522, 22 June 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Alfred Watt, John Connell, and Frank Frotien, bate been committed for trial in the safe robbery from au ironmonger’s shop in Auckland. The City Council of Wellington have adopted an address to Her Majesty the Queen expressing the congratulations of the citizens upon her entering her jubilee year. It has been decided in Christchurch to resuscitate the Benevolent Association, and a committee has been appointed to interview the Charitable Aid on the subject. Alexander McPhnil, who hud been employed for eight months as gardener and coachman by Mr J. H. Baker, Chief Surveyor, was committed ’ for trial in Christchurch last Friday, charged with stealing a quantity of valuable books and other articles, worth £3O in all. Last Friday 805 forfeited shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company were sold by auction in Christchurch, at prices varying from 3d to Bs 4d per share. The report of the Directors of the Waimea Plains Railway states that the profits ’ for the year ending March was £2034 as against £3O in the previous year. The Directors agreed as a compromise to sell the line to (government at k price equal to £IIO,OOCJ, conditional on |he company foregoing half the amount of rates for four years.

Prti»T Brooklyn, engaged on the nnemploved section of the Seward Bush line, Invercargill, was struck by a falling tree and had his spine injured. He was taken to the hospital on Wednesday and died on Friday. He leaves a widow and twelve children.

The Presbyterian Churches in Auckland have resolved to devote the collections on Sunday next to the Rotorua relief fund. Government have decided to have & survey made of the road from Rotorua via Mohaka and Rewa Rewa to Rotorua and Galatea. Maori sufferers by the late eruptions will bo employed upon the work. The Auckland Harbor Board’e new steam dredge arrived from Glasgow, eta Adelaide and other ports, on Sunday afternoon. She was met by the Customs launch on coming up the harbor. The Wakatipu left Wellington for Sydney via New Flymoulh at four on Monday afternoon. Mr Noble, the temperance lecturer, w»s a passenger. There were 130 steerage passengers, most of whom are en route for Kimberley. The San Francisco mail despatched from Wellington by the Rotorua on Sunday afternoon was a heavy one, and exceeded the usual mails by about 40 bags, principally newspapers. The bags of mails from the South were one hundred over the average number, Robert Wilkin, head of the firm of Wilkin and Co., Christchurch, died on Sunday morning. He was 66 years of age and was formerley President of the Agricultrual and Pastoral Association, and a prominent breeder of stock. A quantity of wreckage was found on tha beach near Southbridgo on Saturday, At first it wag supposed to be a portion of a small raft, but as the word “ Lyttelton” was marked on a part no doubt it came from that vessel.

A laboring mao named Charles Crane was swept off the breakwater works at Otago Imads on Saturday afternoon, into 18 feet of water. The tide was flowing, and the man rose once. He failed to catch either the pieces of timber or buoys thrown to him, and perished. He leaves s wife and family in Dunedin.