TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1536, 6 January 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Premier leaves Dunedin,for Christ* church to-day for a couple of days; In the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Wednesday evening. Samuel Bennett, for breaking and entering a dwelling, was. sentenced ,to three years’ imprisonment with hard labor, Davie, charged with stabbing a man at Foatherstone, pleaded - guilty. Sentence "is deferred. In the Supre-.o Court, Dunedin, on • Wednesday Maurice Edward Barton and John Hunter, convicted of larceny, wore sentenced—the former to six months, and Hunter to two years’ imprisonment ' with hard labor. Chiog Chong, convicted of unlawfully wounding another Chinaman, was sentenced to six months. This com* pleted the criminal calendar. J. S. Gibbons was committed for trial at_Auckland, yesterday, to the Supreme* criminal sessions, which opens, on Monday next, on a charge of setting fire to bis sawmill at Onehunga with intent to die* fraud the Union Insurance Co. Defence was reserved. Bail allowed—prisoner’s own bond of £3OO and two sureties of £l€Q each, Arthur Phillow, 24 years, was drowned at New Brighton yesterday morning. Ha went to bathe with his two brothers .and brother-in-law, T. Toneyoliffs, and the tide took them seaward. Tobeyclilfe got Arthur in and left him standing in thre-o feet of water and then went to. help > tha others. A wave lifted the deceased off his feet and swept him out and he was drowned. The body has not ybt been recovered*

Al i ' A Hokitika team has entered for the ■fi?ire Brigade demonstration at Dunedia. I Bespectlng the New Zealand Ilifl > Aflociaton meeting at Christoburcii next month the Council have decided it will W not be advisable to allow rifle clubs to ~ compete iu team matchaui. In all-comers matches, and in respect to tent accommodation, civilians will ll>e placed on an equality with volunteers. As there is no accommodation Bear the grounds com* petitoTß will have to go into camp, the Government supplying tents as usual. Arrangements will be made for measuring similar to the Wanganui meeting. Efforts are being made to obtain a reduction of fares between Wellington and Lyttelton. The camp will be ready on Saturday, February 26tb. Kynock'a 1888 ammunition will be used. The Northern Land, Loan and Building Society (Wellington) have been defrauded of £3OOO by the late manager, W. K. Waters. Against this there is » guarantee worth £750, aid the SocietyV total loss is expected to be about £I9OO. The Society have resolved to wind up, but have not decided whether they will prosecute W'nrs, who is bankrupt and has left for Melbourne. At the Vitdontan Bports stDunedin on Tuesday. H. Dunn won the champion ship wrestling, Border style, with Paisley second, Howli Json (350 yards), won the three mile bicycle handicap, ¥. Webb (scratch), second,. S. B. Steadman (210 yards), woo the five mile bicycle race, Crow (570 yards) 2, Webb p: (scratch) 3»;-..•-"-At a meeting of the New Zealand Iron and Steel Company at Auckland the affair was formally wound up. Bis Excellency the Governor has received no official communication relative to his rumoured trao*fer to Mauritius. Hs knows nothing further tb»n the published cablegram* The New Zealand Herald is now permanently enlarged to the B ' M of tn * Melbourne Argus. , W, Smith Fergurson, si, medical main, but rorking at Manga wai (Auckland) asa gumdigger, has been the victim of a murderous assualt, and li<» in a critical condition. A man named Pyce has been Vjfrrested on suspicion. The body of a lad nimed Alexandei Beid, aged seventeen, was found floating in the Aucklund harbor oil Tuesday even. ing. Deceased had been missing since the night of the 30th December. He was subject to epileptic lite, and it is supposed that while in one he felt into the water. A man named Burns walked out of the window of the Gear meat shop at Welling* ton during sleep and smashed his leg badly. At the Woodville races Montague, who was riding Flora, collided with a post, breaking his leg, ribs, and collirbone. A wrestling match for £s© a Bide and, the light-weight championship hxs been arranged at Dunedin between J. Dunn (brother of the champion), and Tiffr-.u. The faith healing mission which h»s been conducted at Dcnedin by tho Bev. Mr Dowie, of Victoria, was concluded on, Monday night. A very large number of,persona, who alleged they had been suffering from almost all imaginab e compluinis, came forward to state that they bad been cured. William B. Turner, a boy 12 years of age, was drowned 17 mileu up the Wauganui rivet on Saturd»y. He was with a picnic party, and bathed rear a rapid and was curried away. Two young men tried In save him, but the risk to themselves was too great. The body was not found. Another boy's body was found on Monday in the river opposite Wanganui. The etraoge thing is that no boy has been missed. The body must have been in the water 9or 10 days. It wtis recoguised by schoolfellows and relative as a lad named Uixon, but the supposed mother, a widow, says it is not her hoy, whom she sent a week or two ugo to Maitin to spend his school holidays. [Later news states that the boy drowned has bstm identified as the son of Brightwell, assttler near Nortoanby. The boy returned last week to Wanganui from a visit to Foxtoo.and was missed by his friends here, who sup*A posed he had continued his journey home "A next day. It ' 8 &ot known how he got Wftrbwned.l ... ' MiesLiliio Bryer.the leading lady of the Pantomime Company now at the Theatre Boyal, Wellington, while at reiiearsal on Thursday ruptured a blood vessel, and is in u critical condition. Inspector Clifton, in the Marlborough district, wires to the Colonial Secretary | that, with the exception of a small patch j at Hopefiefd, scab has been eradicated from his whole of the colony will very shortly be declared clean* ,„ „ , _ ~ The details of the Midland Eailway Contract have been finally settled by the Government and the representatives of the Company, and the contract was forwarded to England by the last mail for .consideration by the English shareholders. Mr Price Williams, an English capital- , Ist, before he left, bought all tie miaenl A leases at Collingwood (Nelson) he could n acquire. The firßt thing done will be to • run out a wharf inio 35 feet of water ft a cost of £30,000. Government will probably gi'e aconiroctiforuteei rails at a ; priceless than is sow said, Antonio ZaU, a gold prospector, is i missing from Hokitib. He made arrangements to meet his nephew a* Bom on Christmas Day, but did not keep "bis appointment. A search party is out. : On Tuesday morning Ethel May Dodge, 13 jnoAths old, daughter of a farmer at Shaßd s Track (North Canterbury), diea from scalds received by accidentally falling into a bucket of hot water on the previous day. . Early on Tuesday morning the shop of Mr William Barnett, cheuaißt, Victoria ' «treec, Chrietchurch, was broken into, and £5 taken from a desk and drawer. The thief missed a box containing £3O in the desk.

The skeleton of a whuh, between 50 Afand 70 feet leDg and nob all uncovered, was found in the Bandstoue rook in sluicing a claim at Red Jacket (Wellington), on a terrace about 25 feet tbove the level of the se*. The bones are not fossilised. The saodetoue bottom is soft enough to be worked with picks.