TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1535, 22 July 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mrs Dudley Ward, wife of ludire Ward, addressed a public mooting at Auckland en Tuesday night in the Choral Hall on behalf of th« Women’s Christian Temperance Mission, of which she is provincial president. T. F. Rueward, jeweller and watchmaker, occupier of one of the shops in Lewry's block, Woodville, wae arrested on Saturday evening on a charge of having attempted to fire the building. He was on Monday morning brought before Messrs Carlisle and Hall, Justices of the Peace, and remanded for a work, bail being refused.

Thomas Ayres, one of tha oldest and most respected residents of Woodencl, died suddenly on Sunday morning.

The Committee of the Christchurch Benevolent Association h.»ve decided not to revive it as a separate institution, as the Charitable Aid Hoard is satisfactorily performing the functions of the Association.

The death of Tragasser, found dear! last Sunday night at Cristchurch, was caused by rupture of the heart. The Southland Protection League held a public meeting on Monday night, at which about 200 persons were present. The President (Mr H. daggers) delivered an address, and after discussion, tha following motion was carried, with one dissentient—” That in order to retain tha population of New Zealand, it is absolutely necessary that the Government should so arrange the tariff as to encourage local manufactures.”

Captain Webb, Acting American Consul, has given orders for all of the crew of the Petrel who are unwilling to go to sea in her, to get a month’s pay and a discharge in Auckland. All except Joachim, a Portuguese, accepted the offer. The costs of the prosecution are defrayed by the American Government. The Auckland police raided the fruit shop of an old man named Charles McDonald, and arrested the proprietor and six young girls found with twenty hoodlums there. The police also found packs of cards and a quantify of drink. Bail was refused, lest some of the witnesses ten years old, might bo tampered with ns t» revelations.

The Defence Department has now received from Home an electric light apparatus to be need in connection with the defence works at Wellington. It is intended to erect the aparatus at Foit Ballance, where it will command the entrance to the Heads, Wellington, and the whole of the harbor up to bsyond Ward’s Island, thus enabling the butene* to have a full view of any vessel entering the Heads or trying to make her way into the harbor. A similar apparatus has been obtained for Auckland. A criminal information for libel has been laid at the instance of Sir Julius Vogel against Mr A. J. Hoskins, of Wellington, proprietor, printer, and publisher of a weekly paper named the Advertiser, for an a'leged libel contained in tlm paper’s issue of Saturday last. The aUeged libel is sard to have been comprised in s cartoon published in the Advertiser. The hearing has been fixed for the 28tb instant.

Michael Lunny has been committed for trial for the attempted murder of his wife at Auckland.

Some alarm was experienced in the Whangarei diotrict through suspici >us entertained that two strange men seen there were Caffrey and Penn, the Great Barrier murders. A search made by order of Superintendent Thomson was successful in tracing the men, who wore not those wanted.

Roderick Unrquhart was killed at Whangarei Heads (Auckland), by falling off a horse.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Tuesday, Charles Mack was fined £5 Us for playing the “ Three card trick ” on the Hutt racecourse on the 10th inst. Notice of appeal was given.

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, T. Gibson, for embezzling moneys belonging t( '.he Petone Town Board was sentenced to twelve months on each of two charges, the sentences to run concur ently. From further details to hand concerning the Midland Railway construction, it seems certain that work will b# commenced at Brunnerton, proceeding in both directions along the line of the Grey riv f, r towards Raefton, and along the Arnold river in the direction of Chrhtchurch.

A terrible accident happened at neon on Tuesday in the railway yuid, Westport. Win. Campbell, a miner and contractor, was struck by a loaded coal train and cut to pieces. Henry White, who wan brought from Sydney under an extradition warrant, was on Tuesday charged with larceny as a bailee of £2OO worth of jewellery the property of Thomas Dickenson, Westport. He was committed for trial.