TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1545, 26 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

It is understood that the agent of the, New Zealand Government at San Fram cisco, Mr .Chug. R. Buckland, has sent r communication to Sir Julius Vogel, pointing out that . the San Francisco mail service can be conaiderably shortened— by two days inward and hy three days nm(vnrri. Government■ have wired both m

Sydney nod 3 n Francisco in the direction of taking advantage of the proposed shortening of fie mail service. Instructions have heen sent to the latter place to despatch the steamers in accordance with Hu; alteiations indicated in Mr BucklandV letter, and steps are being t«ken to inform intendin','passengers and others interested. A young man named Wm, Porter was diowned m'he Arawatu liver during a flood at Jackaou’s-Biy on the. 12th Aug. The body was found after five days search, and buried. af. Jackson’s Bay. The deceased bud come over from Otago via

JEJuast Pass. The following .football team has been chosen lo play for Otago against Canter bury . Pub-back, K. Austin ; thiee-qu;rtcr-backs, J. Bee, M. Ross, A. Wedderspoou ; half-backs,- R. Fraser, J H. Thoms.)u ; forwards, James Allan, W. Gibson, T. Henderson, A. W. Morris, W, McFarlane, R. Mill, W. Strong, F. Twiname, H. Treseder, The (earn averages over twelve stone, and is thought to ho a good one, though one or two players are omitted who it was conclnded would be in the .team. Before the steamer Pelham left Greymouth on her last-Trip the fireman >dd the second engineer he had dreamed the vessel would be wrecked and he left her; It is said that this man had the same experience with the s.s. Taiaroa, and acted on the warning; Mr McKay has been appointed sucoCesm to Mr Watson, as Manager to the Bank of New Zealand at Invercargill. Last Sunday night a two-storey block of shops and dwelling houses on, the Mount Roskill road, Auckland, ; was burned down. The fire originated in the house of Mr Paacoe; a butcher. The flames snroad with great rapidity to the adjoining block belonging to Mr H, C. Heath, and occupied by Mr Pick, shoemaker, and Mr Kcgnell, grocer, and which, with the residences attached, were destroyed. The insurances are Pascoe’s building and effects, £650, in the Colonial ; Heath’s block, £550, in the. Uoyal ; Pick’s stock and furniture, £75, m the Norwich Union. Regnell; ami Dunn were uninsured, but most of the stock and furniture were saved. Toe Acent-General has cabled to the Government that the Admiralty have declined to accede to the request ofthejKew Zetland Government to present H.'M ! ,S. Miranda to New Zealand.

The ketch Gipsy trading between La Bon’s Bay and Lyttelton,;was wrecked ia he bay on Friday evening, a full cargo of stones and building material,, the whole of which is lout.' Neither cargo nor vessel were insured.; ‘The crew, after being exposed in an o| en bdM for about three -hours, managed to reach the shore. ' v At the Divorce Court, Wellington, on Monday, Ellen, Jones, wife ;of Wm. Micbaer Angelo joDeß,:mQsic teafchor, kte of Oumar’ii and Dunedin, a decree absolute, and also for an ftidW for custody of her two children. was granted. In the case of Webb v, Webb, the wife’s petition for a decree absolute was granted. In the case of Sawkina v.‘ Saw-kins, the wife’s petition for divorce on the ground of the adultery of tbe l)Dßband, H decree nitt was granted. Diiriog! the passage of the Almneda, a Chinese fireman fell dead. His body was embalmed according ' t<«. custom, and landed at Honolulu to bo sent b«ck to San Francisco*, from whence; it Ufill be

returned to the , Flowpry, Land, Tho Alameda refused ia cargo ar San Francisco. This trip she,took to Sydney ; tooo?tbns of flour,. wheat, and.' bacon.' Detecti>« Loolan was a passenger to bring back i Harconrt, who bas been arrested in Sydney. ' Fredi'rick Maybew, second schoolmaster of the Central School, New Plymouth, ■was arrekled .ou.Saturday!:bight on a warrant from Blenheim, charged with embezzling £66 of. the of the Spring Creek Rifles* at Blen.K|im, of which corps he waaTonceic iptain. At the inquest at Wanganui)po ( a Maori aumedßuliiieihi, tlieverdictwasthat death was the result of a 'blow giypM-by " Albert Stubbs, hotelkeeper, in expelling the deceased;/, who w,a.s 'dr i unk, r fronijthe hotel, hut that there was not sufficient evidence to show that_.juDnecessary violence was used. . . ...... ■' ■■ ■ ; ,r jr i; - The South VVales Qoyernpi|nt and New Zesylapd Government have 'mutually agreed to accept the substitution, of the Zeaiandla or Auet.s?lJb. < •o carry „the ,San. Francispct.^mails. 1 HariyDUirri-haw ehallfehghd'-Hudson for 1 he Otago Caledonian Society's 'champion Belti >' '* i r " An Invercargill resident who left for Kimberley ;-wrjtesjftoip;S*ydflejf that ho has ipen told pn tho authorily that the field ia vety rick PersonstMi the diggings>i.writing, tp,their ,frfendt, warn them not to givey any..extracts ip the . public, as it might induce a great/tt»h. " The Minister O of' yMinfes bas 1 received several applications from prospectors in the ISd’utK Passages will be granted-tcf lthose who wish (, to go therey but they will be given to understand that there is bo goldfiald there; and that they go simply aa proniustitakeiitbeiG tlMw of tir eipecwW that 100 twiner* will shortly be f kn route for Big Bay. The; Hinqiiiua left** for Ureywoutb on‘ Tuesday morning ‘"-where she will river’indtake'on board a cargo jof 200' tons before .(returning to Wellington from; Greymputh. She takes a number of miners en route for Big Bay rind after picking up, a few more’at Wellington wil Heave for heidusti nation via the Bluff. . AJibefaction has been taken against the Hokitika Evening Guardian fot niaking false and malicious DawsoU and Co., Dunedin, wherein it wav stated that plaintifflsinewspajper, the .Ross Advocate and Guardian, bad ceased publication. The plaintiff claims £6OO damages. On Monday night Mr Andrew Savage’s house at Pigeon Bay .was burned down. It was insured for £250 in• the South British. The cause of the fire is unknown. A singular case of death by drowning occurred at Springfield on Tuesday. A child two years old, daughfer-*6f ttr Keenan of the Springfield Hotel, slipped into a pool of water a few inches deep, falling on her face. Although’:!tarcouid not have been more than a few moments in the water .when she! was taken..put by a servant, all efforts to restore animation proved unavailing. A";number of single men and widbwen, who were employed oh the relief works at Christchurch by Government,; have been discharged. Forty of them waited on the Mayor;on. Tuesday;begging for work, but it appears that jiothingjcsn be done for them as Mr .Austiuj the chief engineer, is absent fromT/hristchurcb.