TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1503, 23 October 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

In, answer to another letter from the [ t J Wopf Growers’ Association,: Christciiuicb,; t writes that-with a vievrt of obtaining reciprocal. [qondtissiona between the United States and the colonies ii‘ reference to'the'duties on’wool and kerosene, the GoVefilnients 1 should ‘ act either through or, better, obtain authority from thb Queen to negotiate directly with' the' United ' ,/, Statq&:.by caehW A telegram has been received t from! Mr Suttor by the Postmaster-General to effect that the Government of New South s >/aleß will qid in, resisting aqy mcreage* in', * the present cable tariff, but strongly, urges NeW Zealand to grant a subsidy on the condition tHaflth’e 'iTabel ■ is r lowered -to* ss* per 10 words for general messages a word for press telegraph fNo\further; communicatipn has been ( received from 4hb Cable ' ' '’ ' ; The Minister of Lands visits Otago and Canterbury in a fortnight, on business connected with the settlement of ‘ land. His visit wil< 'filed# 15&i; IfcVoe weeks.- . His Excellency‘the'^Gpyerhor/‘will Be • * present 5 at the Christchurch races next month,, |3ir Julias .Ypgel. ia,. not well £ though to’ attend: a The, Government,have decided to declare December,' January and February a close season for mullet la-consequence of the increasing scarcit&mSW-class of fish, v The numbep of,the unemployed engaged o!h relief wprks in the colony is about 500. , Jrfio -duinber Ji on J the books was of course considerably larger, but the remainder •-ba ve'been*drafted"on to works; forJ which; a direct vote of the House A serious misunderstanding has arisen i between members of trie Westport Harbor ' •Board 'and their Chairman, apd one dr two of the late meetings have beeti of a particularly lively nature. The Board

passed a resolution asking, Government, to appoint a, Rpyal Comrnissibn to enquire . ifito'- difference's, with a view to r=ibtihgipg about ap improved Ctato of affairs, '■ i as ,i a't’- > preseK t there is a deadlpqk,- and work is being delayed. The question, hag beeß^[^ffccmaider|ti : oh of GGyefn'Oiiqnt,' will .fie,done .until ,a .meeting, of the full Cabihet Which is expected to be next week. V *** [) £■; / Regulations establishitfg 'fi sysTem'/df classification in certain departments of.the ’ Civil Service will shortly ,ha issuqd,,, } , ' At. + he Supreme Court, Nelson, on Thursday, Henry White was found guilty ;of jt ( he j larceny, as a servant, of jewellery belonging to Mr Hickenson, of Westport, and was sentenced. to. jthrqejyeqra’ hard ' labor. There is another charge, buj; ,p.rp- t vfiably a'kbHc 'prose'qui ! will be' entered* Herbert Hutchings, ■ guilty, and was iwo years'" hard labor. Judge Richmond made some scathing remarks as to this class ot crime. Daniel Maloney, charged with horsestealing, received two years, and Mary f rourgagi ?etllfigj| p? C9»^%%bte'en fine* other criminal case has to be tried. . ’ < 1 Application has been made; by tire' Oamaru police authpritjeg, to havOj ,the hbody -of the child shpposed to have fieen done away with by Mrs Sorgenson exshamed : tp i enable (examination to be 'made to ascertain whether nurder had been committed. ... .n, * 1 Henry Percy ’ Fisher, the notorious convict who was sentenced at last criminal sittings at Dunedin to three years’dm-, prisonment, succeeded in making bis escape from the Heads on Thursday. J ‘ 2 : y s-y The-gold escort arrived imDunadin, on : oTbursdayv with'‘gold’ valued) at £2O/006. L 'i'diThf jßdtaLKGbthfhissioh i 6b Military;' Naval, and Volunteer land claims has held sittings at Dargaville and Whangarei, Over 850 claims hqvp been jnyestigated. The Commission era,leave for/Gisborne/ The North Cttatmbory Bo&rd of Education passed a resolutirfa/loU'Thursday, ..protesting against a recent Government whltffiS fi|Eatb3 Phat Pgrairlfii iifor “emlditiljfi on ooihiog’else. point out that , previous.; circulars ‘defirbjd 'a , school building,to, jinclude ,V’ repajH jig and, eh larging existing! buildings/’ and that thprp.arq nOjfundß other than the grant .for these ’purposes.. ( 1 MhAAHaDi, Sc6t,f, Delegate, Was binquetteil at‘Christchurch «M», (Thursday 'night, • 150' 'Persons ;being: present. In the course of his be said the company-had no intention, of Joqtyiqgnup the > land; they' recel ved,', but Jtheyivyi6hed ; to,Be,ttle small .capitalists on it*.' They would not import labor, f hut expect a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay. Work would probably be began at fißelgroVe aOd Springfield’in six months, ‘than, pine' boys, of sges yaryiiig from nine to fourteen, were charged' with larceny at the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, on, Friday. fjivo. of them (Were con dieted/three ‘discharged, and one remande0 f .' ! Another boy;Sixteen years old, was charged,withi'perjbry, - land a young man named Ellesppre jGcodwin was ;ac,.CMed_ofjßuborning him-to commit perjury.

It is al^eg^d-GQodiwiu'had.'given'Hubbard £3 to!iMKeistateOieHtH, how admitted to bp-fplse, ia prdSr.'itb ’elelir G®dd win's responsibility m,an affiliation case. ? At.a mojeting at Wellington on Thurs--1 Shipping it, Va s resolved :—■ ,r That, as more than, a third, of the shares of the Coinpahy; on .the .register in the co’ony are held in Wellington, and taking into 'dobsideratidn its fedoDomiC 'position for-the purposes of management of the affairs of; the Company, that the shaieholde/Sjlake the necessary,steps to obtain alioca!" Hoard of, Pirectyvs as provided for in clause , 43a, p >ge 21, of the articles “of association.” A resolution was also passed that the number of Directors should be increased ; and that, an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders should be called., A (Joinmitten was appointed ’to ‘Carry put' theresolutions. An old prpspectpr named O’Donnell -was found dead .in the bush at Longwood, in Southland, on. Sui.day. He had evi- . deptly. got lost, and died of want and exposure. He was known as the “Moa Bird)'’ on account of hisbaving on several occasions averred that he had seen one o| these birde; or Us,tracks. At a meeting of the Dunedin Chamber Commerce Colonel Sargood, of Melbourne, pointed out that if all the c >bl© y subsidies were/ lumped together,. New Zealand’s share .would aamunt to £BiBB. . One hundred }ind. thirty coal miners working in the Kaitangata mine, have cstruck work in consequence of two men employed, in the mine refusing to,join ((their union. ..Tha i Directors, will , Only employ non union men in future.

,„By a mistake, in the precis of the Local §m iOban 1 Acts recently issued by the Treasury, the sum of £3OOO was put down as thp?limit allowed to Town Boards instead of £3OO. J,£ V iit is l contemplated to alter the clay of the - departure, of .thejSitn,Francisco mail 'from i t i hid‘ end. 1 The Auckland. ‘Chamber J of Cornmerch and the Sydney Gbve'rpro6DtlVrp;‘ibeing consulted on the .matter/'* if is thought that if steamers left Wellington on Saturday and Auckland on Mbndayl they iWould" make sure of the triad! catching the fast steamer which leaves New Yura every Saturday. The , alteration would make the through service ■to London both quicker and more regular. [District Judge Broad passed through Wellington on Wednesday en route for Christchurch' to taka his first circuit sjttinga-in Canterbury, Otago, and Southi .The,[Philosophical Institute, Wejling:top, passed a resolution on Wednesday night asking the Government to direct attention of the Forestry Department to .the- tree pests in the colony. ■ A -black 'whalef-46 ; feet in length, was ctiptured tit the Bluff on Thursday ; afternoon.