TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1550, 31 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Auckland Trbo]p of Cavalry Volunteers has ceased to exist. The 'Government Insurance authorities hsVe inslhicted thij ifchitsct to prepare plans for offices in Qoeea street, Auckland, oh the' site 6f Shera’af buildings. The buildings ara to be'thre* storeys high, and of a handsome deecJiflion. Thb'American warship Mohican sailed for Samba bn Saturday. The question of the 1 police appearing in bases where informations are laid by private persona again cropped up at the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Friday. Mr Wardblli Resident /Magistrate, held that tile police - had ne right to actio cases where privaterfiidividuals were the informants.; - •'.-'The Governor has received a telegram ■stating that tbe flon. E. Stanhope, Secretary for thd Colonies, visited the New .Zealand court, over which Sir Julius.von Haast coaducted him, and he expressed himself 3 ‘ delighted with the perfebt arrangement, variety, and eharacVerof the exhibits. I'>i r 'f The. Arnolds, charged at Wellington with harboring the burglar Mitchell, were dismissed bn Friday; ‘' It was shown that they "had boasted that the} would tell where* the plant wai rfor £IOO, and Fieaman actually offered them £6O, to which the ’police . added £2O. more. Counsel insinuated that . the mee were to the pay of the police. A buehmao named John Henick com* roitted suicide' at the Upper Butt on Thursday by cutting his throat. At Dunedin Captain Fox waa on ThnradSy charged with assaulting Mr Mahoney, editor of Yoniiy Ffir, (a society paper). The Bench considered that the defendant had a grievance, but he should not have taken the law'iiitb bis own hands. Mr J. B. Bradshaw, M.H.R., Dunedin, waa seizad on Thufaday with an apoplectic fit, but ia expected to recover. During the thunderstorm at Auckland on Thursday the lightning fused the tele* graph wires at. Newmarket, and a thunderbolt fell on the;(Newmarket rail* way bridge »a a train paaa»d, alarming the passengers. About '* ton of earth waa 'displaced.' •>■•>*■*}> ■ Tha'a.s.'Hinemoa left Wellington for Tauranga and other East Coast porta on Monday, taking provisions, etc., to natives who are buffering from the effects of- the late eruption J> the Hot L»kes district. I After dier return she will pro* ceed with the prospectors to Big Bay. Fred, Maybe*, formerly second master if tha Blbnheim School, waa on 3utdrday' l committed for trial for em* brtzltng the funds of the Spring Greek Biflea,of which'he; Was at one time cap* tsiim ! He rcßervfd higdefence. At the Invercargill, Supreme Court oa Thursday,Alfred Mkwer wasuenteacod to 18 months, imprisonment for vtealiogfrcni a dwelling. On Saturday Hie Honor Mr Justice Johnston sentenced four boys, whose agoa range from thirteen to sixteen years, to various terms of imprisonment for breaking into the Leviathan Gift Depot and stealing" goods therefrom. : Morecoaibe sod . Pomeroy, previously convicted, were sentenced to six months’ hard labor Rogers and Asprey, first, offenders, to thfek months’ hard labor. The Judge said he found be had power to release a person convicted for the first time, if he thought fit, but he did not consider atich «Tcourse would be proper in (bis case. The bnrqtien link May left Wellington ; (or, Kimberley on Saturday evening with 46 passengers from .all ports. On Friday" the cajitain of the steamer Akaroa, when passing the headland be* tween Port Levy and Pigeon Bay, discovered a big slip on the uorlbarn face of the mountain, extending from summit to base, a heighlt'bFliOOOft. A atrango ' rumbling 'iioiee, heard in Lyttelton 00 Friday to bsye been c j'uße(d by this slip. a thunderstorm at Riverton on 'day night the houae of 3. L. v •*' Btruck b y hghtning, which Wcpanfe * th e bedroom aod destroyed p*ased tb f o« B/ : ITTBe fldd then took •M . nMie d along tbs spout* another direction, * lhe ;. Ur £ nk ingot (h e bpu ? e, ; dpv. : , bainß of barbed and theppe along three . « which wert wire fence, tbs posts Oi in the set shattered. Biphase, who wa. to the of hanging up a, side of bac« -htnioc roof, had a narrow escape, the list, smashing a lamp within two feet of . Several houses in the neighborhood wa. damaged and pictures thrown from the walls.