TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1512, 13 November 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

It is stated that Sir'Geo. Grey intends leasing or disposing of Kawau and,ippkiug Auckland his home as soon as his literary treasures are removed to the Auckland Free Public Library. The Weiliugton-Manawatu Railway will be opened for through passenger traffic on the 19th instant.

The Wellington Woollen Company are Bending to London a bale of blankets as a earn pie of their goods. . A rather serious robbery has been bronght to I'ght int conhectibn’with the fete held last week to celebrate the opening of the Wellington-ManawatU Railway. Oh the return journey a large crate containing silver-plated ware to tlie value of more than £6O, belonging to the caterers, disappeared mysteriously from the train. Charles Lamiesiu and Charles Johnston have been arrested on a charge of burglary at the Wellington branch of Messrs Mackay, Logan and Co., of Auckland, and stealing goods to the value pf £5 lls 6d.

The steamer Hauraka, while on her voyage from Foxton to Opunake on Sunday last, struck on a rock about 8 miles to the eastward of Opunake. The only damage sustained was injury to the sternpost, and some copper tom. off. An inquiry-will be held. fI.M.S. Miranda sailed from Wellington on Wednesday night for England via the Falkland Islands and Rip de Janeiro. The entries for the Oamarh Agricultural Show number 739. Last year they were 193 Sir. G. S. Whitmore loft for Invercargill yesterday. After inspection there, he proceeds to Timaru to select a site for tbe Easter and inspects the Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton, and Christchurch Toluoteers on Tuesday and the following days.

The Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company have declared a ten per cent dividend. At Ruspell, Bay,o£ IsUnjls on Wednesday tqprning, a boat capsized and Edward jGhyfee'and a Maori were drowned. Some seamen from the Idao observed the accident and put out to the rescue of the two men,-but -the ;boat ? aank before it, was reached. A strong westerly gale was blowing. The fifth annual meeting of the New Zealand Native Laud Settlement Company has been held at Auckland. The directors’ report stated that the year which closed[ on the 30th September bad been an unfavorable one for the company, owing to depression and lack of demand for land. The expenses of management have leen reduced, and farther saving is expected to be effected by certain arrangements at the close of 1886. The report was adopted. Messrs, Bundle, Morrin, and Stafford : ; were re-elected directors.

J. Y. Hall, a settler on the Glenham estate, in the Wyndham district (Southland), is missing. Search parties have been out looking for him, but were unsuccessful, A billiard marker named William Weir, 24, was drowned at the Bluff on Monday night. His hat blew into the harbor and he got into a dingy to recover it and was never again seen alive. H.M. troopship Thalia arrived at Wellington from Sydney at three o’clock on Thursday aft rnnon. She is on her way home with the crews belonging to the Opal rnd Raven. The ThJia leaves Wellington today, and calls at tbe Falkland Island and Rio de Janeiro.

The Premier, replying to the proposal of the President of the Grbaveapr Gallery, suggests that tbe Exhibition of the pictures ‘should take place at the various centres of population. At the inquest at Wellington on the girl Helen Petersen, killed by being run over by a horse ridden by William Pilkington, a verdict of manslaughter, was returned against'Pirkington.

Two bookmakers were fined £25 each at Christchurch on Thursday for a breach of the Gaming japd Lotteries Act. They receivedmoney, and undertook to pay on the winning horse the same dividend as the totalisator.

The certificate of Captain Pope, master of the Tui, recently wrecked near Wellington, has been cancelled on the ground of;[negligence, almost amounting to carelessness. The Court said they were willing to recommend that a mate’s certificate be granted to him. Tu Tawhiao, son of the Maori King, died last Wednesday night at Whatiwahatihoe. The Government has received information that the whole of the sheep in the Kaikoura district are now free from ■cab.

The saurian monster in the Waikato river has developed into a tiger, the footprints of which, it is alleged, have been seen on Castleton’s farm, and large numbers of people on horseback and foot have been oat hunting it. The New Zealand Herald gives circumstantial accounts of lt« being seen by several parties. The statements are generally discredited. OttoP&hdre, a German sailor, appeared at the Auckland Police Court on Thursday morning, charged with stabbing Walter Eggingtoi, a seaman, in the left breast’ last Wednesday night. Tbe quarrel arose at the house of a woman with whom Pandre formerly lived, but who had left him to live with Eggiugton. The prisoner was remanded for a week. At an adjourned meeting at Auckland ft (he proposed temperance settlement at Kaglap, a number of persons gave in their names.