TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 1509, Issue 1509, 6 November 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

ft U . ■ i'V.'t i ... .. if u Tha> engineer, of the .Auckland-Harbor : ie 'Board ll has;: reported that the 7 ' cost of' it dredging a f Reamer passage and erecting ’t a wharf in- Shoal Bay would ba £12j000;' 'The effect'wbu.'d be to give direct comj mu'niddtion between Auckland and the I Labe TakapUnadistrict;- . <_.%f IP '! 'fhe District Engineer has returned to Auckland Worn'a trip King e .Country inspecting the progress - of: work x along,,the , Main Trunk Railway,.; and. ir, that' everything is going satisII fackorily. ..Tbefirat 18 miles will bacomu spieled, in;six weeks, and will be open !* ;for-traffic.sooin afterwards. The tu nbdl ' 1 ; contract is]progressing,as well as can bo *■ 'expected, Em | ... .. ; iku • ' TJve Auckland Cricket Association has 0 ; re&lv^'itfcypUyfagainst this Austra- ,, anja ha'^e' re-considered th'4 terms iy ,tor ;> jai alternative of k two thirda!of the uet proceeds, n Samuel iDesForges, the debtor ■ ,who, ( 1 'Wei's imprisdnedi for negli>t n-enceiiu keeping books, has been released 8 on a writ oilidhedf corpus on the ground ‘Qf irregular qommitent. .. . :j Jfi: 7. q lofofraatipp', has 'been received, inf ■ j,; ioly'e serious outbreak of:¥Cffb v a on Hopebeld runj ! Wairau river, in t|ie; Auuuri district in a flock of between w four- and fiye thciusand'which were cleap.\ ;U the since January, 1884,. and the whole of I, 1 Amuri was declared clean last year. l| ! A) curious, accident happened'on board rt the s.Si Hauroto, at,. Port ; C,ha!lmerß.‘ J While 'men .iSiorb hoisting out a,super, heater *on -board the Wakatipu. 6o g Wednesday forenpon, the iron shoe of . the . a fore stay broke and the heavy surge 0 caused the fbremkst to break about eight j) above ,tbe deck and fall on the q saloon skylight,' smashing it to pieces, and. , n ttbe ifore yard broke in ' three pieces. it 1 -Fortunately,ialtboughiailarge nurabarpf , s, men were on deck, no one wis injured. »r - 5 >'■ 'The ceremony of driving the last spike g 'Pf ! the Wellingtou-Manawatu Railway Company wad performed ’on -Tuesday. d ; 'Speaking in’ reply' to the toast of bis |0 liealtßF, ■tbe7Q3fßCfiprjßata:'' a question '» ,which he \ wished,to refer, to was-ood; th’.J ' d had been' commented on, .both by English !? papers and thbse id the colony of New / “ 2ualand. .He had heard it said that the . prosperity of New Zealand was at an end, * but he could ! tiay with cPttainty that that P . idea W» 8 simply humbug. To say that a ( Country with only half a million of ini u\ habitants, ./.and which was’ capable of l - holding, .twenty times'that number, .was: : in a afate ,pf. was npusense,- ' fie looked forward to k bright j future for' New Zealand, and he could assure the le colonists that they would be a happy and, , .o' prosperous nation. it At an, inquest held at Invercargill on n Tuesday on the body of a 4 months’ old 18 son of . jArthup Rpssell, a gardener, who '® was alleged to have , died of starvation, * the . witnesses deposed, that the mother was-scarcely eyer sober, and that she left :• the child locked «jp,in the house alone for - hours together. The medical evidence l *. went to show, that the infant had been 1 d starved, there being no organic dieeaee to ° account for death. The body weighed- :j 1 five pounds twelve, ounces. The jury , n . returned a verdict to the effect that the e child had died from starvation, but _ they o could not say who was to blame, it npt f p. being clear that the husband h supplied funds for the maintenance of the . is child. ■J The Minister of Justice has informed the Christchurch.. Hospital Board that after the 31.se March next cases of de-s lirium tremens will have to be treated in the hospital. The Board decidjed to comnniii i- v : 'li (he other Boards in the ie colony, with vii wof concerted f actio,o n beingtaken to prevent the .hospitals being ■ used for the reception of these cases.

It is -stated that Mr Hudson Williamson, Ithd Cr'dwri.Solicitor'lAdckland, obtained Sril'intefview with the! girl Sarah Oleaiy alias Grace-Graham, now in Mount Eden Gaol/charged with ■after th’e fact in murder. MrjNapierf-counael fb’r Fenifind the girl, that serif arf highly.: indigbaaftelegram to the Minister: 'of, ; Justice ' Rawing his attention to the m'ittarj/r ■•'* John Grant 'Fdrhythl charged at Auckland uttifirig l a'forged cheque for £8 4s, kriswjoe* 1 the he forged, hds : ' been ■ committed for trial at the next criminal sessions. lft "“The/Auckland relieving o&cer reports tbM ! 1426• received relief in October. The year. /The funem |ff |he ate • Te Ao, 'formerly* represented flie western district, in ‘BaMiarhdm;, took place df Otaki dri Tuesday afternoon. The Hen. the Native Minister, accompanied by the of’the Native Department, left , for , Qc&ki to take part in the sad’ * ceremo'ny. Mr Ballanca " was wai;pily welcomed by the leading men. I A. largp| number of natives assembied/and thb burial service was’ cohducted iri the Maori language by the Rev MriMcMillari, 1 Church of England missionary. About 18Q0 1 natives were present; arid 'there wria riofcithe slightest sign of,d is order or jdrunkennfess. She*,C ( apife)rliory t Cricket Association rescinded /its resolution 22 men against** the' A.UBtr.aiiaris, 1 and decided to : plgy.lß. The resolved to Vpnd' an elevejrita Wellington at Christmas.' “ ' * In the, Oivorce Court, Christchurch, on Thursday, Mr Justice. Johnston granted a decreeabsolute jo Wjpj-hrQR t v . Withrop, and a.decrpe, on (he petition of the ‘hqsband in W&lker y. Wa)kri,r and Shelton. (The'iQO-respoDrieqt; latter case had lived with the resppq(| eD t i° Auckland .Ull,recently, 11 >Hugh,iM'tcbell, a Dunedin auctioneer, iXas fined 20s and costs for selling after hours. • About,,3oo persons,attended a public meeting at Dunedin .op 'Ehqrsday evening, at, which resolutions were, parsed in fa\or of the protection league, and promising support!,!# a policy of agaistingcolonialdndustriesi by the imposition of "an “the customs .duties.-.11l a The Ediicatiipri Board.at Blenheim have passed a resolution' of the 'suggestion ( -of ■ thA' Otßgo Board that Inspectors be interchanged between the ■districts.-