TELEGRAPHIC

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2626, 7 September 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC

CABIiB NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.

[hEUTEH’S TELEGRAMS.] MELBOURNE, September 6,

Sailed, this morning—The Union Company’s steamship Rotorua, for the Bluff.

Malting barley is steadier at 5s to 5 s 2d : shipping wheat at 6s 9d to 6s lOd. The market is active, and New Zealand feeding oats are quoted, duty paid, at 4s 2d, and inboard 3s 7d to 3s 9d. The market is depressed.

NEW ZEALAND. [PEB PBBBB ASSOCIATION,j AUCKLAND, September 6, The steamer Tongariro went down to the Botomahana with Messrs T. Henderson, Bobbin, and B. T. Isaacs, who welcomed the Sydney footballers, and took them to their hotel.

William Black, book-keeper in Mitohelson and Co.’s, died suddenly. A tallow and manure company has been formed, with a capital of £SOOO, It has been finally settled to retain Jewett, of Dunedin, in the Auckland football team, notwithstanding the objections made by the Press.

The Botomahana brought £IO,OOO specie for Bank of Australasia.

NAPIEB, September 6. Steps are being taken to form a Meat Preserving Company, with a capital of £45,000. It is proposed to take over the existing works and add a refrigerating one. A vessel fitted with refrigerating machinery will come to Hawke’s Bay this wool season.

A strange story comes from Kaihora, Mrs Sfcaoej, a relative of Mr Hy. Hickey, left Waipawa by railway on Saturday afternoon for her home, which is some four miles from Kaikora, On getting out of the train at Kaikora she proceeded to walk to her residence, and was not heard of till she was found on Sunday morning on one of the hills in the neighborhood quite unconscious, her clothing partly torn off, and her head and upper part of her body’muoh bruised. She cannot account in any way for the strange condition in which she was found. Mrs Stacey is an elderly lady. A'prohibition order against a man named Wm. Swanson was issued at instigation of the police. Swanson is a clever painter, but always drunk when he can get money or credit.

A case of attempted suicide from unrequited love took place at Waipukurau on Saturday evening last. Hammond, employed as gardener at Mount Herbert, on Saturday evening was found dangerously ill. Upon being questioned as to the cause of his illness he stated that he had taken a dose of arsenic with a view to end his days. He was removed to the County Hospital and prompt remedies applied, but he is still in a very precarious condition. Two packages labelled " poison,” one strychnine and the other arsenic, were found in his box, also a will, in which ho directed that all his goods should bo sold and the proceeds handed over to his fiokle ladylove. QISBOBNE, September 6, At the inquest to-day on the body of Fannie Lewis, who committed suicide yesterday, the verdict was that the deceased committed the act while in a state of temporary insanity. "WELLINGTON, September 6

Zeoda Thomas was arrested here on a charge of wife desertion at Christchurch He was remanded to that place, and left by the steamer Penguin to-day, TIMABU, September 6,

The Geraldine County Council, at its meeting ! o-day,decided to obtain information as to the probable cost of irrigating the plains in the county. Tbe weather continues fine and dry, and rain is beginning to be badly wanted in many parts of this district. DUNEDIN, September 6

The Eesident Magistrate to-day gave judgment against a waggoner who claimed the value of a horse which had to be destroyed as the result of injuries received through taking fright at a steam tram engine. He held that the engine was of a class called “noiseless,” and was lawfully upon the highway. At the Land Board to-day a license to prospect for minerals was granted over eix square miles at Doubtful Sound, West Coast.

A claim came before the Compensation Court under the Public Works Act to day, in which a claimant named Henderson seeks to recover £1062, value of lands taken and injuriously affected by the Gatlin’s River railway. The defence set up for the Crown was that against this compensation could be sot off under J the Act, the amount of the increased value given to the land by the railway passing through it, which the Crown asserted to be £2 per acre. Judge Williams said be could not decide the point right off, but at first sight it seemed to be a piece of startling legislation if the Act did provide as stated, for neighboring owners thus received the benefit unchallenged, which was denied to the owner through whose land the line happened to pass. The case will be proceeded with to-monow.

A prospectus is out of a new Insurance Company, having its head-quarters here, to be called the Equitable Insurance Association of Now Zealand, It will eventually include life business and fire business, and will be confined to the colony. It will also include

the issue of bonuses, well as ordinary policies, the bonuses being divided alter 10 per cent, has been paid to shareholders. INVERCARGILL, September 6.

The Presbytery of Southland to-day decided, by a majority of 7 to 6, against the union with the Presbyterian Church of Hew Zealand. A motion was carried by 2 to 6 that, in view of the faot that it appears uncertain whether the teaching of Scripture prohibits marriage with‘a deceased wife’s sister, the Presbytery recommends the Synod to grant individual liberty on the subject.