TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1530, 10 July 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Auckland Rotorua Relief Committee have remitted, £IOO to the Rotorua local committee, for the relief of distress. The Auckland offices of the Colonial Mutual Lite Association were broken into, but the safe baffled the burglars. An application for a mandamus to compel the Cook Licensing Committee to grant a renewal of the license to the Prince of Wales Hotel, in Tory street, was argued in the Supremo Court, Wellington, on Wednesday. M,r.-Justice Richmond held that the -committee was the frihuhal.appointed.by the Legislature and the Supreme Court could not intirfero. His Honor took tinuLth consider whether it was necessary to hear the Attorney General on behalf of the committee. At the annual meeting of the!Union Insurance Company at Christchurch on Tuesday, Messrs I J. Palmer and P. Cunningham were re-elected:’directors. Ar resolution" reducing- the number of directors from eight to and remuneration from £IOOO to £7|)o was confirmed. Motions <providing ihat the directors should receive one gui <ea for each meeting they iattended were negatived, The Christchurch Poultry,-Canary, and Oat Show opened on’ Wednesday with 750 entries, a larger number than any other show yet held there. On Wednesday morning lheUrrionist ahoeraaksrs at Christchurch placarded the town with a list of men jerking at Suckh'ogls-ip place of the jtrikeraL. Those men were branded aa ‘ ( scabs,”' and other Scurrilous epithets,; j;; - William Barr, a farmsr' at Amberlay, died on Wednesday fd/inkmg carbolic acid in mistake for brandy.

A Afaketu telegram statestbatawa result of the ▼olcanic.depoiits everything is in a very bad ’ state. Cattle ana Tiorses are dying in all directions. .Settlers blame the Government for ; not; appointing a commissioner to visit Bay of Plenty to see that the tracts of .Europeans and natives are attended to, and,that they will not be allowed to starve for the next three months.

Hot springs have been discovered at Cook’s river, West Coast, a short distance below the glacier.

The committee of the Dunedin Presbytery appointed to confer with those who had started a Free Church in Dunedin through being dissatisfied with innovations in the Presbyterian Church, brought up a report recommending that the Presbytery regard itself obligated by all constitutional means to protect the congregation against the innovating tendencies of the times. The members of the Church recommended that a formular be signed by all members joining that they should neither directly or indirectly seek to introduce or stir the question of the introduction of hymns or instrumental music, and that if they did so their membership of the congregation should cease. Considers* tion of the report was deferred. The Women’s and Young Men’* Christian Association, Dunedin, held a joint anniversary celebration on Wednesday evening, which was largely attended.

William Leitch committed suicide on Wednesday, at O 'marn, by swallowing 4 ounces of chlorodyne. Deceased whs a baker, and it iw said had lost money in business. He went into the parlor of (he Critenion Hotel, locked the door, took the poison, and in a few minutes was dead.

A man named William Batchelor, a barman, died suddenly at New Plymouth, while boating. Heart dese/iso is supposed to be the cause. He leaves a wife and nine children.

Te Whit' has sent a message to Rotorua that he will be able to predict the next eruption. The annual meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company was held at Auckland on Wednesday. Dr Campbell, the Chairman, stated that the business is in a flourishing condition. The loss by Holt's defalcations, is not expecipd to exceed from £ISOO to £2OOO. , Dr Campbell was reelected director, and Mr William Kvans Taylor was elected colonial;auditor. A great “ blow up ” at Rotomahana on Thursday morning shot up a column of steam, mud and stones to a height of 16,000 feet. It lasted ten minutes. Some anxinty is felt for the safety of the exploring party iu the vicinity. The cloud was seen at Te Aruba from Rotomahann. A meeting of sympathisers with Mr Gladstone was held at Napier on Thursday evening, under the presidency of the Mayor. Resolutions were adopted in favor of Home Rule, : apd a committee was appointed to cable a message to Mr Gladstone. There wae no opposition, only sympathisers with Home Rule being invited. Mr Locke, M H.R., was present, and moved the chief resolution. A private letter received at Christchurch from Gisborne states that 100 feet of oil is showing in the pipe at the South Pacific Petroleum Well, and that the hole has had te be plugged, Mr Weaver, the borer, is believed to be waiting instructions from the Sydney directors before removing the plug. The opinion in that it will be proved that oil has beau struck. The Mayor of Christchurch called a meeting on Thursday to consider the question of relief for the sufferers by the Tarawera eruptions. The only person present was the Dean of Christchurch, There appears to be a general impression that loose cash is scarce just now, and there have been a good, many calls upon the purses of the charitable.