TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1541, 18 January 1887, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The streets in Auckland are to bo repaired at a cost of about £6OOO. A meeting of the unemployed was held at Auckland on Friday, when Edward Cooke propounded a new land scheme. A deputaiion was appointed to wait on Mr Ballance on his arrival. A two and a-half-year-oid child of Mr Parvis, a settler at Pukerau (Otago), was drowned last Friday night. in the Wellington Divorce Court, Olsen v. Olsen, husband’s pelition, it was shown that the parties, who were married in Denmark, lived at Carterton, where the wife had deserted the. petitioner for another Dane named Nicholson, Two children had since been born, and the wife had refused all offers of the husband, to take her back. A decree nisi was granted. Morris v. Morris, wife’s petition on the ground of infidelity, cruelty, and desertion. The evidence that the respondent had left Mrs Morris at Auckland two years after marriage, and was now living with another woman at Sydney., A d-cree nisi was granted. In Sawkins v, Sawkius, petition by the wife, the decree was made absolute. In the, Wellington R.M. Court on Fiiduy t-» 6 husbands applied for protection orders against their wives on the grounds of cruelty. In one case the charge was dismissed ; in the b'lher defendant was bound over in sureties,. The amusing feature Jo these cases', that counsel for the plaintiff in the latter case was a witness for the defendant in the former,. Argument in the case, cf Baldwin v, Graham and others, members of the Gisborne Harbor Board, being a motion for an injunction to restrain defendants from proceeding with the harbor works at Gisborne, was concluded in banco on Friday. The Chief Justice .reserved his decision*

An elderly man named;; An yon was . knocked down &t Foildipg ..on Thursday by a mob of young hprses, Ho died from concussion of the braim Twenty-five cases of apples by the Te Anau were on Friday morning confiscated by the Customs at Wellington, ias they were infected with the. codlin ;motb;: The Hobart plums and pears were in good condition. • ,■ The perjury cases at Hokitika re> a recent affiliation case closed at half-past nine on Friday night. The informationagainst Mehany, t! '<> teacher, was dismissed, and his wilo .vas committed for trial. • • At the Presbyterian Synod,-Dunedin, on Friday, it was announced that » sustentution fund dividend of £lO4 ss;6d had been declared.; It was resolved to send down to Kirk Sessions a pemit from the Southland Presbytery, asking that Deacons and other officers should not be; required toiSign fbe Confession n£, haith.i At the evening. sijtfmgAt continue the agitatifjpAdr tpe iritroflnctlQn of the Bible in State Schools, and to co-operate with Protesjant bodies with* a view of securing that pbject, ; The Dunedin unemployed have prepared a memorial, signed by 63 married men, to be presented to Messrs Hazel andHodgkins, emigration* | delegates London,/with the bri.ngi.ifg under their notice their position and;the;relation of that position to : emigration. / Mr Joynti. solicitor*,.iof Christchurch, has been instructed by; the Properly Tax Comraissiohfer to take proceedings against. J. M. Baird, ofthat.city, as representative of the Queen Insurance Corapany;..of England, for the ) recovery of .£ISOO arrears of'-s&< land, [tensities for vbftviog. carried on business in this colony w|thoiitl being duly licensed sunder the Stamp Duties Act. It is probable that thelSt'amp Department will also take action in the matter, and it is said that several similar cases are likely to be brought forward of foreign Companies carrying on .business in New Zealand without paying either stamp-duty or propertyitax. i * A woman, name unknown, was fotind in a house in Parnell -(Auckland), in a state of decomposition.[The woman reported as found dead is a house at Parnell, name unknown, proves to be a Mrs Murray. The report arose tbrpugh the body being/left uncoffined for two days through a misunderstanding in the Relieving Officer’s department.] At Auckland, Cornwall has taken the preliminary stepq in arracti.pn against Jtfac-; arthur and Co, for the recovery ©f £60,000, being supplementary to the one recently concluded, in which the same defendant were adjudged to pay £IOO damages, and costs, tor actual 'trespass, and against which decision they ar-s appealing to the Privy Council. ■ William Johnston was committed for trial at Palmerston North, on Saturday, for rape on a girl of 15. The departure of Messrs MacMahon and Leitch, theatrical Managers, from Auckland to Fiji has caused many anxious enquiries at Wellington. It is understood that the strict regulations regarding the importation of dogs to this colony will shortiy be relaxed."' Messrs McLean and Son are the successful: tenderers for the harbor works bridge across the Buller river. Price, £1359 14s 6d. There were eleven tenderers. Frederick Voss, aged 15, died at Taitapu, North Canterbury, on. Friday from the effects of sunstroke,. The funeral -of *Mrs Laroach, wife* of : the Minister of Mints, on Saturday afternoon was largely attended, among those following being the Premier and the Hon. Lieutenant Fortescue, representing the Governor. A - the half-yearly meeting of the Working Men’s Club at Wellington last Friday night, the President said there was a credit balance of £3l after spending £llO on new premises, the assets exceeding the liabilities by £842. The secretary said there was a deficiency of £75; and hot a credit balance as the president had stated, aud he objected to the reflection thus cast upon him and the auditors. This led to a lively altercation lasting for some time, in which the fact that the secretary, Mr W. R. Bishop, was paid was repeatedly oast in his teeth. He repeated that it was paltry pay for the work done, and that one of his opponents a liquor merchant, made a deal more out of tb.e,club than he j did, .which caused considerable laughter. I When matters had calmed down business ! proceeded^'and the retiring president was (re-elected. At the Dunedin Supreme Court Mrs Didham recovered £IOO from the city corporation for a broken leg, the damage having been sustained, the /neglect of defendants to keep the pathway across I the town belt in proper repair. P.: B. Boult, late clerk to the Lake County has been arrested at Dunedin for larceny of a missing rate book. It is reported that his defalcations exceed £2OOO. There are six separate chargee against him. A boy, two and a-half years old, at Kaikorai, Otago, while swinging on a rope attached to a fence, got the rope twisted round his neck. When released he was almost unconscious. He is now suffering from congestion of the brain.