TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 82, 28 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Sept. 25. Daniel McSweenev was committed for trial to-day, charged with rape on Mrs Little, Onehunga, while she was in a fit. The Natives of Chatham Islands have caught and cured about fifteen hundred albatrosses, which they intend to send to Taranaki, per Omaha, for the great Native meeting to be held next March. When the Nymphe was anchored at Hicks’ Bay, on Monday last, it was reported that the Natives at Waiapu had quarrelled and formed two hostile parties, each taking possession of a pah, and maintaining a warlike attitude. Christchurch, Sept 25. During the gale the new Presbyterian Church at Lincoln, lately erected at a cost of L7OO, was levelled to the ground. A goods shed on the line was also blown down. The Commissioner of Railways left in a special train at 5 o’clock to visit the scene. Patea, Sept. 25. Hiroki, the Monuahi murderer, was seen on Sunday, and is believed to be hovering around Waitotara, hoping to get bis wife away. A strongly aimed party of natives and Europeans started this morning to scour the bush on the Okatutu and Monuahoka blocks. The Government offer a reward to any person materially aiding the capture of Hiroki. No efforts are being spared by the Government officers or settlers, and the Waitotara natives are showing themselves willing to help. Hone Pihaua was at Waitotara to-day, assisting the search, and organising a party in conjunction with Captain Wray. Wellington, Sept. 25.

At an ©rdinary weekly meeting of the Tramway Company, held yesterday, the manager submitted returns showing that the enterprise was making satisfactory progress. The average weekly receipts were £2OO, against the working expenses, £ll4, leaving a profit of £B6 per week. It is expected, when the line is in thorough working order, the receipts will be materially augmented, while the increase in the expenses will be but nominal. The traffic is reported to be steadily increasing. The returns for the weekending Saturday last, show 15,376 passengers, against 15,178 during the previous week. Dunedin, Sept 26 The 6.10 a.m. train to-day from Palmerston on arriving in the neighbourhood of Rowley’s Bridge, near Coal Point, and on going round a curve and dewn a h«avy gradient there, ran into an engine and trucks on their way to Pal-

merston, conveying Oamaru stone. The trucks had got off the line, and it is stated that no warning was given tp the approaching train from Palmerston. Jenkins, the fireman of the goods train, jumped off, and was not much hurt, though he feels internal pain. White, the engine driver of the same train, sustained a simple fracture four or five inches below the knee. He was attended by Dr Brown, of Palmerston, and was afterwards conveyed to the Oamaru Hospital It appears that the goods train from Oamaru was late, and that one of the waggons breaking down, caused a further" detention. The station master at Palmerston, without awaiting the arrival of this train, started the passenger train for Oamaru at the usual hour, thinking the goods train would run on to some siding, and the accident happened five minutes after the departure of the passenger train. The noon train from Oamaru did not arrive till 3 p.m., in consequence of the accident. The damage to the engines is not so great as was at first expected. The breaking of the buffer of one of the engines, and the damaging of the buffers of two of the waggons were the only injuries sustained by the plant. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day, a lengthy statement of the Board’s requirements was submitted, and showed that it would require L 46,355 to satisfy all the wants. A circular appealing to the Government and Otago members for pecuniary assistance to enable the Board to carry on its work was adopted. Scarcity of teachers was referred to, and it was resolved to advertise in New Zealand and Melb urne papers for applicants.