TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1502, 21 October 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

•Mr E. of the Property Tax Department,' succeeds ■;Wt McAliater in the Justine Department;-,] Mr Waldgrave .becomes. Pr'?ate Secretary Minister of Justice. \.' , ~ / "j t( , At Kumara.. Michael Oadigaq, Burke and party, was killed in ,hty claim by the caving in of au' 00//.'.' j His mate, hsdja narrow escape, being .partially "covered by the same fall of earth, but was rescued. /The woman Sorption, «Ks/Farquharson, aKcts Johbiton," ¥re¥ft'd-W-cKild murder at Oamaru, was* t>ikenito DuJ)6|in by the evening traio/ WneX £rresie]| jjhe denied having been In Oamar,Uv 4 . i Fred ..Yonge,,a farmer, on a charge of cruelty to the steeplechaser Ruahine, at Pakurariga ' : (Auckland) Hunt Club's nieeting,' washed 10a, and ("costs. • The blacksmith, and;cooperage preraisea at Onehiioga, occupied by-Jamea Gibbons, were [destroyed by;flre;at'4 a.m. on Tuesday. The contents which were deraolishe4 include £4OO worth of cooperate machinery lately imported, a steam engine, •tools,' etc' The prejuis'esfaiid 6tock were insured In. ;the, Union office for £4BO. The total losr is estimated at; £IOOO. Mathew Burnett closed- his -series of temperance meetings Vim! Auckland on Tuesday night, prior to his leaving for Thames 1 and other 1 places! i'Jßuring the past fortnight he has spoken two or three times 'every day, and administered the pledge to over 600 people. At the Supreme (Jourfc, Wanganui, en Tuesday,' a man named Wood was convicted of forgery and uttering, and sento 12 months' imprisonment with hard labor. ' : '■'".' '■ ! > :". '?.': : f -At a meeting' of; the Bluff Harbor Board o.n .Tuesday a, letter was received froai' Mr. Solomon, solicitoj, Duuedin, on behalf of Mr; 1). M,cLeod, owner of the Maidof:Otßgo,rclaimingi£9oftjfor the loss of that vessel. Heal leges,that ri the wreck occurred through the negligence of the Harbor Board in not marking Jhe position of the wreck of the with light ,cr ; buoy. The Board decided not to entertain the claim, and instructed their solicitors "to defend if aerved with a nrit.