TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1501, 19 October 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Colonial Insurance Company have issued a circular to the shareholders stating that the debit,balance at the clmo pfjast .year has. entirely,, disappeared, 1 fair' amount how‘'siands profit arid'loss account. At Dunedin on Friday four lads, aged frorai ,14,t0rl 6, were convicted of stesliogHwifribis ffedixl Governtherif, • A detective stated that on£ firm had lost 93 and Government over' 100/ j l- j ! ; One boy was ordered to come up for sentence; when called ,pnthe other three received one month, and, one who was at present in gaol on another charge three months.' At’‘lnvercargill on Friday night a six-roomed house,Jii East Jnyercargill, owped by W. Mac Master, was burned, with its content J, The owner is a hotelkeeper; The bouse wa.s'jnsurpJ, in the Colonial office, £lsGfj)n the house and £IOO on the furniture, Messrs Robertson and Prior, of Waituna, were drowned at Raglan on Friday through the capsizing of a sailing boat. ;~Eripr 5 s body-'has been'recovered, but Ahf'tnat bf kobertsonl A young woman named Olive St. John attempted suicide at Auckland bn Fndayupight by throwing'herself, into the harbor from the Queen street wharf. Shej geiiCed la buoy thrown to her by a constable and was rescued. O At , the Stark enquiry is still proceeding, though no evidence of conspiracy has been disclosed. Stark cables to bis solicitor that be has just heard of the commission, und; leaves London at once on bis rbturb to the colonyiJ >'/' ; : , •>John LiVesy-, cptn&issiob, agent, was cefmihltted* fir teal 1 at Auckland' on Saturday on four charges of forgery, bail was allowed, himself £SOO and two sureties of £250 each, ; At Auckland ’will be tafcefl against Walker,. Madkay, and Bolton, three of the principal witnesses in the prosecution *f A. D. Bennet, on a charge of perjury, be•; laid it is understood Sre to be conspiracy and, pprjury. There is said to be a charge J»|jain«fc Bolton, miller, under the Bankruptcy Act arising put of dieclosures , which.be ; made during, hjs crbss-examinaiion in the Supreme Court in Bennat’s case. . . f , • , nr • fha Colonial Treasurer lie. officially, informed that the amount offered for the loan ,£2,090,000.,e.t an average price of ’£§t ss. Disappointment isl felt at the result, which was expected to be better after the announcement tyat.! tjje, loan: bad :gpne to the 1 .per premium, The low price is attributed by Ministers to the New South Wales deficit. At Christchurch on Saturday, the Commjtiee of the, Chamber of tlommefes and ‘ 'lhe l l Oorn' l ’Exchange 'held a combined meeting when it was decided to communicate with kindred institutions „ ■ throughout colony as to the } coral ' Wck;' Tbb Opinion 'was that a sacls containing 200 lbs, of whVaf was most suitable. fpojW; Dunedin has ar-i rived at Home, 76 days out. A cablegram advises*'the’’ death jon the passage Home of Mr 'i 1 . B. Low, Assistant District Engineer. The ‘police ; arrested at Clinton ( Otago) on Saturday night the woman GeorgfSpD, who occupied the house, where was “ found buried, and whose child had disappeared, '. A claim fpr £9OO has been made on the Bluff Harbor' Board for the loss of the Maid of Otago, which was wrecked whj(p:enteung port during the night for shelter front! a: southerly gale. It Is supposed that the claim is based on the assumption that the schooner struck on the wreck of the s;s. Pelham of which the-ißpatd have taken; no steps to specially .warn, ,re=s p lp from approaching. ]