TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1273, 4 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A man named James Evans was on Monday, at Auckland, fined £lO and costs, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, for playing " under and oyer' at the Takapuna races. A holiness camp meeting has been held at Port Albert (Auckland) lasting several days, and at it some extraordinary scenes of" religious fruzy are stated to have occurred.

The Mayor estimates that Hie income to the public library (Auckland) from the Costley bequest will be £BGO per annum.

Samuel Vaile, the " railway reformer," is lecturing in the Waikiro oa railway reform, under the auspices of the Farmers (Hub. Mnjor Ropata is lying seriously ill at Gisborne.

The Wellington police have laid an information against an employer of labor named Henry Edwards, for employing girls after hours on Saturday, and also for not providing proper means of ventilation.

William Horrell, a ploughman at Coalgate, was kicked by a horse on Saturday, and was so severely injured that he died from the injuries lie received. An iDfluontial meetiDg re the West Coast railway, was held in Christchurch on Monday evening, whan it was decided to undertake preliminary arrangements for the construction of the line, and a Committee was appointed to take the necessary steps. The meeting was a private one and the details have Hot transpired. Monday night's Dunedin Herald soys it is rumored that the Hon. Mr Stout intends to bring an action against a leading Dunedin newspaper for alleged libel in a leading article recently published. The Eaitangata Lake Coal Company (Limited), Otago, will immediately proceed with the construction of their railway, which is to be seven and a half miles in leDgth. The lioe is expected to be in running order in eight months, Mr Shelford, a member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements, arrived by the Coptic. He vrill make the tour of New Zealand, and vis't the Hot Lakes before returning to Singapore. A destructive cyclone passed over the Grafton district (N.S.W.) on the 22nd Nov. Trees were uprooted, horass and cattle killed, and buildings damaged. Frank Morton, a carpenter from Dunedin, who has been working at Balclutha for some months, disappeared on Monday. The circumstances lead to a suspicion of drowning in the river. At'theß.M. Court, Tnnaru, on Mona man named Henry Bodley was committed for trial ♦or stealing 85 bags chaff, tho property of one D. Gray, a cropper at Albury. A steerage passenger named .Times Cnonon, a cab driver, died of delirium tremens diving the passage of the Tarawera from Sydney to Auckland. The Hon. W. Swanson, first AttorneyGeneral of the colony, h dead. The Auckland Evening Star opened its new offices in Shorthand and Fort Streets on Monday. The building is a palatial ouo of f-iur storeys, and having a frontage of 89ft by 157 ft deep. It cost £20,000. Tho .Star issued a lithograph of the building, and in a clescnpb'e account published a statement of two accountants, slewing the circulation to he 98GG copies daily. William Bishop, an old resident, and fonneily agent of McMeckan, Blackwood an<l Company, died at Wellington on Tuesday. Mr Stout's absence from Wellington will extend over some weeks. Sir Julius "Vogel will leave for the Hot Springs in a fortnight. A boy, five years old, son of the master o f j the schooner Onward, loading at Kaituna, in the Sounds, near Havelock, was drowned ou Monday. He was last seen fishing off Iho punt.

A. brutal outrage was committed on a womnn shortly »ffpr twe'va o'clock la«t. Monday riiglt at Christchurih by th'ee young men, iill of whom criminally I'SPaulted her. From theatat'm'-nt of the woman, it appears that they seiz d her an<) carried iter to a paddock off the South Town Belt. Two of them took tnrus in holding their handa over her month to stop her screams -while she was outraged. The men, whose names are Austin Tyrell, John Arthur Cotton, and William Peacock, have all been arrested. The charge against them will be heard on Friday. The woman was only just out of the hospital. John Miller, an engineman at Tapper's sawmill, Longbush, Southland, was killed among the machinery there on Tuesday. No one saw the accident, but it is supposed he was putting a belt on the pulley, when he got caught. His body was taken to the lnvercargili Hospital, where it was found his injuries were very severe, his shoulder being smashed, his ribs broken, and his lungs ruptured. Miller leaves a wife and two children. He was formerly a driver on the Southland railways, A second case of a criminal outrage on a woman took place at Adelaide (S.A.) on the 22nd Nov., and two men have been ' arrested. The citizens talk of forming a Vigilance Committee for self-protection j against criminals. A Ind n.vmcd John Rose charged with obtaining a gun under falsa pretences at B enheitn, was committed for trial at the April silting of the Supreme Court. Another charge of presenting a gun at a . person in a public street, was noi proceeded with. The doctors examined the lad and pronounced him sane.