TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1556, 14 September 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the Auckland police court on Friday morning, Frederick Hartshorn, a stowaway on the Waihoru, from Sydney, was lined £1 and costs, and ordered to pay his fare. He said he went from Lyttelton to Sydney a short time ago.—Win. Stone, late an inmate of the Old Men’s Refuge, Auckland, wns sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, for begging iu Queen street, A Crimean veterans’ dinner was held at Auckland on Thursday evening. Mr A. Cairns, formerly of H.M.S. Hastings, presided. M. Edward Baurneaus reponded to the toast France,” ho being one of five hundred of the Imperial Guard sent to the Crimea. At an auction sale at Wellington on Friday, a section on Lainbton Quay, with a wooden building erected on it, brought £135 per foot. It is stated that the properly tax valuation of the land belonging to Mr Crawford and taken for defence purposes at Forts Ballance and Harwell, is £ls per ac e. Mr Crawford claims over £l2O per acre.

4 party of 15 men has been got together in Christchurch for the purpose of proceeding to the Red Hill mineral district in the s.s. Hinetnoa. The leader is Mr Joseph Gibbs who has had a good deal of goldfields experience. Mr Isaac Newton Watt, late sheriff and coroner, died at Dunedin on Friday afternoon. He was ic the very early days superintendent of Taranaki, and then Resident Magistrate at the Bluff.

The unemployed have commenced agi fating at Christchurch again, but their numbers seem to have lessened.

A peculiar case came before the Resident Magistrate at Dunedin on. Friday. A. nerson disposing of furniture claimed £SO damages from the auctioneer because lie held the sa'e sooner than was announced, The advertisement gave six o’clock as the bom by-mistake, and it was contended the plaintiff’s friends were kept from attending, and the goods sacrificed. The auctioneer was not responsible for the error. Damages to the amount of 50h was given. The Mandeville Hotel, Gore district, was burned down on. Friday morning. The building was insured for' £6OO in the New Zealand office and half rein.-ured in the Souih British.

George Harcourt, the abtc,ending mines manager, was charged on Saturday rn the Thames Resident Magistrate’s Court wiih embezzling £75 from the Eureka Goldmining Company, and al-o £l4 8s Gd, at the instance of tiro Official Assignee. The prisoner was remanded to Thursday, tho 16th in«t., and admit ed to bail iu tiis own recoGTiiz'nco of £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO, on each charge.

The outward San Francis o mail took some 103 nominations by persons in the colony who wish friends to join them, and have paid the necessity deposits, amounting in all to £IO2O. The number nominated from the respective provincial distrids is—Auckland 40, Taranaki 5, Hawkea Bay 18, Wellington 18, Nelson (Westport) 1, Canterbury 9, Otago 20, Southland 2.

Mr W. Beale, a well known grocer at New Plymouth, died suddenly on Friday night from [mart disease as he was returning home from a friend’s house, where he had been spending the evening. At a largely attended meeting of the New Zealand Wool-growers’ Association at Christchurch on Saturday, Mr J. D. Lance presiding, a resolution was passed in favor of the formation of the Amuri and Cheviot Counties and Waipara Road District into a district under the Rabbit Act 1882. Mr John Falconer, Ma] or of Oarnaru, and one of the early settlers, died on Saturday morning, aged 52.