TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1539, 31 July 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The whaler Alaska is at Russell, detained by the Customs authorities there, it is alleged that whilst at the Chatham Islands she landed a quantity of goods upon which duty had not been paid. Superintendent Thomson has instructed the police parties searching for Caffrey and Penn to return to Auckland. They ran to earth the two men at Waitakani falls, whom the settlers had declared to be Caffrey and Penn. They proved to be two wandering gumdiggers. At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, Richard Aldridge, for larceny of 14s 3d from the person, was sentenced to five years’ hard labor. In the House on Wednesday the Minister of Justice stated that a medical officer had examined Te Whiti, who is in custody, and he had reported that Te Whiti’s was one of the soundest chests he had examined. Mrs Moore, ef Eyreton, Christchurch, aged fifty-five years, committed suicide on Wednesday morning by cutting her throat with a razor. The half yearly meeting of the Co'onial Bank was held on Wednesday, at Dunedin, when the report and balance-sheet, as already telegraphed, were adopted, and Mr John Roberts was formally elected a director. At Lawrence on Wednesday a Chinaman name Sing Lee was fined £lO, and 34s costs, for permitting prostitutes to meet in his house in the Chinese camp. The evidence disclosed that the wife of accused was in the habit of decoying young women from Dunedin by engaging them as servants, and then informing them that they would have to lead an immoral life. J. A. Hoskins, proprietor and publisher of the Wellington Advertiser, was committed for trial on Wednesday on a charge, of libelling Sir Julius Yogt-1 in cornu ctio with the sale of the Waimate Rail win Debentures. Tite Auckland unemployed aro -agitat-ing-for homes along the North Island railway line. In giving decision, at Dunedin, in a case which' arose before the passing of the Married Women’s Property Act, Mr

Justice Williams held that a wife having purchased furniture and allowed it to go to the house which her husband,rented, and there mix with other furhitiiYp, his property, it was liable to seizure. -‘Under the present law he said it Would not, follow that the same inferences could be ’Ni drawn from the same facts. , At Christchurch Sergeant Alexander Wilson has been bound over in the sum of £25 in his own recognisance for having “ cuffed ” the ears of a boy who had been impertinent to him at the police station. Mr Beethara gave this most extraordinary decision. The argument on the law points raised , in he case of Rowlands, convicted of the murder of his mate at Gisborne, resulted m the conviction being upheld. The murdered man left a written statement, and the question was whether it was admiasable as evidence. Michael Lnnny has been committed for trial at Auckland for shooting at George McGuire. A Samoan boy, aged 12, who was discovered as a stowaway on the s.s, Arawata, has been adopted by a benevolent Auckland lady. Notwithstanding '•h« depression, there was quite a nnmbrr of applications at the police station for him. He states that he runaway from Fiji through illtreatment. ■A man named Patrick Dixon had big leg brorea at Otatau on Wednesday by a truck running over him. He was sent to the Wanganui hospital, but cm arrival was found to be dead. At the inquest, on Thursday, a verdict of death from an* accident, accelerated by the long train journey to Wanganui, was returned. Mr John Holmes, member for Christchurch South, broke his leg while returning from the House to the Occidental Hotel early on Wednesday morning. When stepping off the footpath he fell and fractured the bone of his right leg half way between the knee and ankle. Telegrams from Sydney state that the barque Chasca must discharge part and probably the whole of her cargo. A detention of at least one month is expected. Titokowaru having been found to be suffering from some disease, has been removed from Terrace prison to Wellington hospital. The Maori prisoner, who had his leg broken during the disturbance at Manaia, has also been removed to the hospital. John Humphries, aged nine years, has been committed for trial on two charges of stealing letters from the Auckland ' post-office boxes. The boy appears to be a kleptomaniac, as he acted entirely on ids own account, and had no. object in dealing. The Waikato Cheese and Bacon Factory suffered a loss of £193 last year, and it has been resolved to wind up the Company, aad hand ovi r the business to the Co-operative Company, Mr Heinzen, a Wu'kato settler, who has been in the Hot L ike district erecting a house, was ba< r ly scalded about the legs in consequence of the crust of the earth near the Hot Springs at Ohinemutu giving way. Jewellery to the value of £BOO was stolen from Mr Freeman’s shop, Wellington, on Wednesday night. A meeting of Natives is to take place at Parihaka next week to consult on the recent arrests at Manaia. An important decision was given in the Appeal Court, Wellington on Thursday morning. The Napier Borough Council had passed a by-law prohibiting ‘ processions by the Salvation Army. The latter, however, ignored it, and the Council prosecuted them, but the Resident Magistrate held that the by-law was ultra vires . The Borough Council appealed and the decision was given to the effect that “such processions were subject to a municipal by-law.” The appeal was allowed with £5 5s costs, jin the inquiry into the fire in McFadden’s boat shop, Dunedin, the jury returned a verdict that there was not sufficient evidence to show how it originated. The highest valuation of stock and fixtures by valuators was £460. The insurance was £7OO, A printer named Geo. Manning Rees has been committed for trial at Christchurch, for the manslaughter of his wife. Ihe evidence at the inquest proved great neglect on the part of Rees. It was stilted that a minister of religion had to provide nourishment for the woman ami her family in consequence of Itees’ neglect. The medical evidence showed thst the woman had suffered from pulmonary consumption, and was in such a state that any rough treatment would hasten death. The jury found that death was accelerated by general neglect, and this whs tantamount to a verdict of manslaughter, upon which charge Rees was ■ forthwith arrested.