TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1548, 3 February 1887, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A slight shook of oarthquika wis felt el, Christohuioh, Kaikoura, Wellington, and Nelson on Monday evening. A Maori named Benare Earn committed suioide at Riverton, Southland, on Monday. ' ■ '■'< '.< A young man named Fred, Perceval. Outram, staying with Mr Turner, of WakV puaka, Nelson, was found dead in bed on Tuesday: Death resulted from an epileptic fit. Sir Julius Yogel arrived at Auokland yeßterday. He will leave on Thursday T>y the Hinemda for Wellington; 1 to arrange the programme of the session and to attend the Cabinet Council. A deputation waited upon Mr Ballanoe at Auckland on Monday re the conservation of forests, and pointed out the terrible destruction of-forests by fire, principally by gum diggers. Mr Ballance said the Government would look into the matter to see if legislation were necessary. ;, At a meeting of shareholders inithe Union Sash and Door Company, Auokland, the report .showed 1 jR : d'floienoy ®n the year's operations of £16,000. % Arthur Crawford, aged tventy-seven, stepson of Mr Boyne, of Waiuku (Auokland), left his homo in .a nude state 1 on Sunday morning, and has nob since been heard of, He is evidently insane. ' : •••• .'.'"\ A man named Dawson, engaged at the Gisborne harbor works, met'with a serious aioident on Monday afternoon. He was working, at the viaduot extension when the scaffolding gave way, D»wson falling some distance on the rooks. . Price, the dangerous lunatio who escaped from the Wellington asylum on Friday, has been recaptured. . The Hon. Mr Buokley anticipates saving £56,00(3 in the sheep and rabbit department by abolishing rabbit agents and others and ' transferring their duties to sheep inspectors,"" A lad named William Rjbs was charged at Dunodin on Monday; with criminally assaulting a little girl at Mosgiel, and the case was remanded. Accused vas formerly an inmate of the Industrial School. The Court of Enquiry at Dunedin found that the master of the Dredge and the master of the Omapere were both to blame for not reduoing their speed before the collision.' occurred. Their certificates were returned, and the two masters were ordered to share the costs pf sh'e enquiry. - A gentlemanly-looking man named Mark Hutohinson was apprehended at G-rej mouth on a oharge of lnnaoy. He had £9O cash and a' bank draft for £2OO in his possession when arrested. He will be sent ti the asylum., A writ was served on Tuesday on the Dunedin Evening Star, claiming £50,000 damages. The writ isissued by Mr Robinson, who, a year or two ago, was in Dunedin as »n arohiteot, and against whom one or two complaints were heard in the Police Court arising out of alleged annoyance of women in the streets. A young woman known in Christohuroh ob Ethel Smith, but whose real name is said to be Maoaulay, and whoso relations live in Dunedin, was accidentally poisoned on Monday night. She asked a young man to give her a drink and by mistake he gave her a solution of sugar of lead. The mistake was soon discovered, and medioal aid summoned, when emetics were administered and the girl's life saved. She had a very narrow escape. . An executive meeting of the Cabinet was held on Tuesday at Wellington; when the Great Barrier murder was considered. Tho results of their deliberations will be forwarded to His Excellenoy the Governor. The aooountant who examined the books of Waters, the Wellington bankrupt, reported that the errors of addition in the ledger amount to hundreds of pounds ; and the incorreoii entries|to many hundreds more. The book-keeping is ingenious but bad, In conclusion he says :—" I have, however, furnished you with a return of receipts and expenditure from Ist January, 1883, to the date of the bankruptoy, showing an actual expenditure of £5222 7s 4d over the receipts, to whioh I have added an estimated loss for bad debts of £4OO, making a probable defioit of £9222." There was a large and representative gathering at the banquet given at Dunedin on Tuesday evening to Rear-Admiral Scott, who is about to . leave the colony for England. His Excellenoy the Governor was present. Mr E. B, Oargill was in the chair The gathering was a most brilliant one. .An inquest: "was held on Monday .at; —Inglewood, near New Plymouth, on the ,body of the obild burnt in tho house on the T)enbigh road, betweon Waipuka and Midhurst, a week ago. The jury returned a verdict that thero was no evidence to show how the fire originated, and added a rider to the effect that Mary Harimella, a neighbour, deserved the severest censure for not going to look after the children when requested to do so. The evidence showed inhuman couduot on the part of the woman, At a meeting of shareholders of the Northern Land and Loan Company, Welling'* ton on Monday night, it wbb decided to wind up the company, Bnd liquidators wers appointed. There were only two or three dissentients. A balance sheet was submitted, but hot formally dealt with, t.'e item, "W. E. Waters, written off," causing-some recrimination. 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