TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1504, 26 October 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mr W. J. Napier has been retained to defend Fean. Superintendant Thomson has instructed Mr Hudson Williams m, the Crown Prosecutor, to conduct the Great Barrier murder prosecution in the Auckland Police Court. Intelligence has been received from Rotorua that the lake is higher than previously known, and is still rising. :• Considerable damage l will-be done, Fisher, after having been captured and while being conveyed to Dunedip; jumped off the train at Pelichet Bay Station and made for the bush near the northern : cemetery! r ThH ’ cbnytkble who jumped after him sprained hie foot. F’sher was again arrested at 4.30 on Saturday morning, on board the Martuion at Rattray Street Wharf. - , At the annual meeting of the'Drapery Importing Company, the balance-sheet showed that the business had largely expanded. A dividend, of; 8J per cent ‘ andfa bonus of 6£ were declared, leaving £771 to be carried forward. Tbe criminal business at the Supreme Court, Nelson, was concluded on Friday evening, wheij Annie Donald, charged with forgery and ottering* was ,fpund_ gui.lty .>p,d sentenced to two years’ hard labor. The opening of,the boating season at Christchurch on Sufjurdayia'ftetnbon., Was one of the most successful nequatic - gatherings ever held there. Fifty-six IwqjWj formed, the 'procession. The attendance was fully as largeas at any previous opening. The weather Was fioe. i > i Mry O’Neill, frife of Benjamin O’Neill, a farmer at Doylbstoh, North Canterbury, was killed on Saturday evening near Stockbnrn, by beibg lhrown oUt or a trap through the horse shying. 1 Mr surveyor, has corntnenoed to survey the North Island Railway Extension from Helens*ille to Kaukapakapa. The. length of the first part of the line will be about' six miles. > Eome three tnonths'wilt be occupied by surveys, and it is expected that 1 at the end of that time tendera will be called for the first section. At Auckland a boy eleven years old named Alfred Patteison ' had been com- , : milted for trial atthe Supreme Court, on a charge of stealing a yacht from the North Shore. Accused went off to sea in the vessel, evidently on a piratical cruise, but as' his Whole equipment consisted of several marbles and some’primitive cruising tackle, he was forced to land at Whangapuroa, thirty miles along the .; coast, where he was arrested on a second charge—that of housebreaking. Patterson was "sentenced to three months’ bard labor on the latter charge and to be well birched. , . At Auckland the Club Cup for the peasoh’l matches was won by tbe Grafton Football Club, which i defeated the Pod“aoiiby Football Club by 10 points to nil. .Up till-Saturday she Grafton and Pomsooby Clubs stood equal.; for the Cup. There was a good attemlan'Ce'at the'match.' The Wellington police are investigating ' what is evidently a case of arson. A small ease, containing rags, r saturated with kerosene, was discovered on fire at a boarding house occupied by Mrs Ryan, who is living apart from her Husband. Voices; were heard in the yard about midnight, and tbe box was discovered about an hour and a half later, leaning against tbe kitchen wail on fire. Government have received no informationofthe rise in Lake Rotbrua. The Government agent at Rotorua was instructed by (he Native .Minister some time ago to report any change in depth of water, and about a week ago information was sent to'Welliogtoh that the take was falling. ' Mr Ballan'ce has telegraphed to Mr'fl. A.' • of the'• Mines 'Departiiientj *W> is at ! present 1 hi 1 the district, to ascertain'the exact position of affairs, and wire the result of his f investigation. If the lake rises to any; extent a large volume' of water 'may be run into Lake liotoiti at a cost of about £6O. At .the meeting of the Kaitangata Relief Committee 'the Secretary reported that St the time of the accident seven years ago there were 84 children under 16. Now there were only 54. Relief was reduced to correspond. The question of the ;s rike then Came up. Tbe Secretary (Mr, Gillies) : moved that for the present all payments connected, with or related to those bn strike cease. MjOst bf the members thought this wus going to far, and further consideration un the subject!was adjourned. The Kaitaogata Company are gradually filling the places of those on strike, and have given'the fate workmen notice to give up possession .of tbe cottages.,.. . ,