TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1999, 25 January 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC.

At Lyttelton John Nelson, master of the ketch Minnie, was fined 20s and costs £4< 2s, for running away with the vessel, which was in charge of a bailiff. On a remonstrance by the bailiff he picked up an axe and said "if you don't get out of this I will split your skull open." A general holiday was observed at Wanganui and Hokitika on Wednesday.

There is muck satisfaction at Blenheim at the prospect of the Awatere Railway extension, by whioh the ports of Blenheim and Picton will tap a fertile valley. The work commences forthwith.

Mr Harper, who goes home next week, undertakes to bring out a professional coach for the principal Dunedin Cricket Clubs.

At the Customs enquiry at Christ-1' ;hurch into the fire on hoard the ] jarque Beltana it was shown that the ;argo waa worth £61,000 and the damage amounted to £6OOO. One hundred and fifty assistants in retail shops ia Ohristchurch are igitating for a Saturday half holiday. The Railway Employes Benefit Society at Dunedin had a balance to credit at the end of the year of £1921. While the Eev. J. McAra, Presbyterian minister at Grisborne, was driving with his little girl in a buggy on Thursday, the horse became unmanageable and the buggy was capsized. Mr McAra sustained a fracture

of the skull and a broken arm, and his case is regarded as hopeless. The little girl was not much hurt. Seventeen young women, whose average wages per week were thirteen shillings, went out on strike on Thursday, from Parker and Tribe's clothing factory. The other hands leave when work now in hand is completed, A trio of the spieler tribe lately arrived*in Dunedin from Melbourne, elegantly attired in the garb of I Roman Catholic Priests. Their get-

up and deameanor were quite in keeping with their assumed positions But before they had time to commence operations the detectives " spotted " them, and spoiled their little game by I politely, but firmly, requesting them to Imove on, and Dunedin soon knew them n® more. The question is, where will they turn up next t