TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1276, 11 December 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Auckland Industrial Building Society has declared a dividend and bonus equal to 11 per cent. Charles Balls was on Monday at Blenheim committed for trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of attempting to commit an unnatural offence. Bail was granted, but was not forthcoming. A case of imposition and heartless desertion of a ciiild came before Mr Baethara, K. M,, at Christchurch on Monday. Two months ago an advertisement appeared in a local paper signed “ A.8.C.," inquiring for some person to take charge of a baby six weeks old. This was answered by a Mrs Allen, and on September 25th last a young woman, who said her name was Miss McLeod called and left a female child with Mrs Allan, paid a month’s board in advance ami said the father, whose name was Dasbwood, would cad and sign an agreement t.i> pay regularly for the child’s maintenance, tie did not come on the day appointed, and since then the police could find no trace either of the young woman or the chile’s father. Mrs Allan was unable to maintain the infant, and applied to have her s- nt to the Burnham Industrial School. Mr Beetham remarked this was nut the only case of the kind that had occurred recently. There was no suspicion of collusion on Mrs ABeu’s part, and be committed the child to the industrial School till 15 years old.

At their meeting on Monday night the Christchurch City Council decided to take steps to raise a loan of £25,000 for 50 years at 5 per cent for rebuilding bridges, erecting gas lamps, channelling, fire prevention, and for a tramway to the new cemetery, The hearing of the charges against Wm. Waring Taylor was resumed at Wellington on Tuesday, when the prisoner was charged with the misappropriation of the proceeds of certain Colonial Bank shares, Loan Investment Association shares, and mortgages in Canterbury and Wellington, belonging to the New Zealand estates of the late Mr May, and representing a value of upwards of £IO,OOO. After a number of witnesses had been examined, the accused was further remanded. An A.B. of the St. Kilda, named Martin, was killed on Tuesday on the cattle wharf, Auckland. He was stepping off the ate uruT when his foot slipped and he fell and broke his neck.

It is expected that tenders for the construction of locomotives within New Zealand will be called for in two months. The delay has been occasioned by the time required for preparing the necessary drawings, etc. Mr E. Wakefield, M.H.8., gave a lecture at Ohristchurch on Tuesday night on the “Prose and Poetry of the Greater Britain.” The Governor presided, and there was a large attendance., A man named Thomas Plaskett, while taking a load of coal from Coalgate to Hororata (Canterbury), fell off the dray, a wheel of which passed over hio body, inflicting injuries of which he died in a few houis.

A somewhat singular accident occurred on Tuesday to David Dewar, of Milton, proprietor of a fraction engine and threshing mil, He was camping for the night on Round Hill, and having disconnected the travelling gear, was intending to pump some water out of the engine. Being on an incline, it started off, with the mill behind it, and soon got great speed on. A man named Eelly, who was also on board, jumped off, but Dewar stuck to it until it ran over an embankment and capsized. He was severely crushed, had one rib severed from the backbone and three others fractured, and was badly cut and bruised. The engine and mill, etc., were complete'y wrecked. A son of Mr Button, of Colombo street, Christchurch, was taken ill on Tuesday in the East Christchurch School, and died shortly afterwards, before his Barents could be communicated with. He had just come out of a bath when a fit seized him.

An Australasian draughts tournament is to be hehi in Dunedin on January theS-li, and it is expected to last a week or fcn days. Several leading players from Victoria and Hew South Wales will compete.