TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1274, 6 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

It is understood to be Mr Mitehelson’s intention to retire Lorn public life, at least for some years. It is said that Major Atkinson lias urged him to reconsider his decision, but without avail. Mr Mitchelson will probably not resign for some months yet.

in the Supreme Court, Napier, on Wednesday, John Sylvester, charged with firing”, at Chalmers, Railway Inspector, with intent to murder, was found guilty and sentenced to ten years’ponul servitude. Two men, one being an ex-army officer, were acquitted ou a charge of robbery from a dwelling-house near Tarawera. The case was clear as day on the prisoners’ own confession, but it transpired that the confession was obtained by a promise given by the arresting constable that if they showed where a watch was hidden they should be liberated. Without the information contained in the confession the charge could not have been proved, and the Judge told the jury to dismiss the confession from their minds. The General Committee for the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition comprise the names of all Members of the Legislature for the Wellington Provincial District, also the principal commercial gentlemen and manufacturers of Wellington city.

About 1 2 gentlemen are as yet out as candidates for a seat on the Board of the Government Insurance Association.

The New Zealand Shipping Company are endeavoring to make arrangements for the regular visiting of Auckland by their direct steamers, Auckland being made the first port of arrival alternately, or as often as the trade and mail arrangements will permit. A young man named Frank Dunlop fell 32ft from a scaffold at Wellington and sustained fracture of the spine. There are very small hopes of his recovery. A boy, the son of Mr Neave, had a v/onderful escape from a fatal accident at Christchurch on Wednesday. He was driving across the railway at Montreal street when a shunting engine struck the cart, and smashed it, seriously injured the horse, and literally ballooned the boy, who fell down on the engine, and was carried alongforsorne chains before it wasstopped. He was stunned, but not seriously hurt. The Hon Mr Stout arrived in Dunedin on Wednesday last and will stay till after the new year. Some excitement was occasioned in Princess street, Dunedin, on Tuesday evening by the members of the North Dunedin Rifles and the Salvation Army falling foul of one another when marching in" opposite disections. The Army officers aver that the Rifles purposely dispersed their numbers, and have lodged a complaint with the officer in charge of the "Volunteer district.

Tenders will be shortly called for seven miles of plate laying on the Wingatui section of the Otago Central Railway, starting from the Wingatui section. William Meldrum, a shanty-keeper at Hcnthorne on the Otago Central Line, was seriously assaulted at midnight on Monday by three men named Lawrence White, Thomas Crowley, and Gerald Fitzgerald, when tomahawks were freely used? Meldrum died during removal to the Hospital. Mr Mitchell (of Fergusson and Mitchell) on Wednesday, at Dunedin, purchased the gold mine and plant of the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company, situated at Bendigo near Cromwell, for £1075. The” Dunedin City Council have decided to grant the Tramway Company a 21 years’ concession at the end of their present term, to enable them to substitute another form of traction instead of horses. At a meeting of the Rangiora Imseed Company on Monday evening a motion was proposed that the Company should be wound no, but this was lost, and another meeting will be called to elect a fresh directorate.

At the R.M. Court, Christchurch, on Wednesday, John Arthur Cotton and Wil'iarn Peacock, charged with having, in company with another, feloniously assaulted a woman on Monday night, were remanded till Friday, bail being refused. Inspector Pender said the case was beginning to wear a serious aspect, Francis Duirant, a French seaman, was stabbed in the face by Edward Dimmont at Auckland on Wednesday, A powerful steam tug, for harbor purposes, was launched at Auckland on Thursday. It was named the Awahina, and is to the order of a party of Auckland shipowners. Charles Wesley attempted to commit suicide at the Queen street wharf Auckland, on Thursday night by drowning himself. He hnd been crossed in love, and become weak minded. The nominations for the election of the Government Insurance Board is fixed for the 20fli December, and the elections for shortly after the New Year. Thursday night’s Dunedin Herald says; “ We understand that it is the intention of the Government to place the charitable institutions of all parts of the Colony on the same footing, as tar as State aid is concerned, as tl.ose of Dunedin, that in that each is to receive £1 from the Government for each £1 raised locally.” At the R.M. Court, Timaru, a man named Duncan Fraser was committed for trial to the Supreme Court for obtaining a watch from Soiomon Shappere by means of false pretences. A boy named Robert Ingram Boyes was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for stealing a watch valued at £3 from the house of one James Ewing during the latter’s absence. In the Divorce Court, Wellington, in Grey v Grey, the case was heard in camera. Petitioner was nee Jane Mary Sunalaus O’Kearne, and the petitioner set forth that the marriage took place at Wellington in December, 1881. At the time of marriage the petitioner was 26 and the respondent, James Grattan Grey, 36. The respondent was then and had been since incapacitated. This allegation was denied by the respondent. Eventually the case was adjourned to enable the evidence of respondent to be taken on commission in Melbourne. A fatal accident occurred at the Thames at ten o’clock on Thursday night at the new Prince Imperial mine. A man named Walter Allan, who was observed about town during the evening, fell from the surface to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 5T01t., and was there found doubled up in a. truck with his rhighs broken and a frightful gash inflicted on his left tample. The deceased was not seen when approaching the shaft, the doors of which had been left open for the purpose of lowering timber.