TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1279, 18 December 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the Auckland Court, on Monday, Robert Roskill, late railway stationmaster at Norman by, was discharged for embezzlement, the Crown offering no evidence, as it was believed there was no criminality but simply a muddiing of accounts. A man named Sinclair, in charge of Hannah's boot warehouse, was drowned in the river Waimate (North Island), through becoming cramped. The body has been recovered. He leaves a wife and four children. The tender or Messrs Stocks and' Wallace (Christchurch), has been accepted for the Hurunui contract of the HurunuiWaitaki railway. The amount was £9190*. The programme of the New Zealand Rifle Association is issued. Scooting commences on Monday, pth .March, and continues on following days/' The prizaa amount, in the aggregate, to close on £750, exclusive of belts and other trophies. One prize is a thirty guinea clock, presented by the Mayor and Councillors of Wellington. The number of shots to bo fired for each belt by each competitor is 123. Mr Scott, representative of the East and West Coast Railway, Middle Island, and Mr C Napier Bell, engineer, who surveyed the line, and Messrs Sclanders and Fell of .Nelson, have on Monday had a long consultation with the Government with re"spect to terms of contract regarding that line. It is understood that arrangements of a satisfactory nature have been arrived at, and the conditions are to be forwarded to Christchurch for the approval of the Company. It is expected that matters will be finally settled in a few days. A man arrested for drunkenness at Christchurch last Monday iiighr, paid rather heavily for his spree. He lost £250 and had to pay fines, etc., amounting to £2 9s. A body was found floating in the Lytteltnn harbor on Monday, and was recognised as that of James PatOD. a lumper, who was missed from his home ten days ago. Signer Brocolini, the celebrated baritone, was a passenger by the San Francisco mail steamer. He is to make a professional tour ol New Zealand and Australia. At a meeting of the Education Board, Napier, on Tuesday, the Inspector stated that half the schools in the district were disgracefully overcrowded. In a recent tour he found the children sitting on the floor anywhere where they could get room. That state of things prevailed in at least fifteen schools. In one built for 40 children 120 were present. The Board decided they could do nothing, having no funds. Hopkins and Jowitt's flour and oatmeal mills at Balclutha were burned down on Tuesday morning. The loss is estimated at -£3OOO over the insurances, which amount to £3OOO. The cause of the fire is unknown. —The premises of Mr W. Taylor, a saddler in Milton, were wholly 1 destroyed by fire last Monday nigbt. The stock was insured for £SO in the Standard Office. The premises belonged to Mr S. Clegg, saddler, of Timaru.

The report of the Walton Park Coal Company for the year shows a ciedit to profit and loss of £1956 9s Id, and a ten per cent bonus is recommended. Dbolinb of Man. —Nerrousneas, Weakness. Dyspepsia, Impotence, Bexual Debility, cured by "Wells' He*lth Ren«wer." Druggists. Kerapthorne, P.oaser & Co., Agetsts, Christchinch. * A telegram was received by the Duuedin police on IVsvlay slating that a tfinn named William Brown died suddenly on Monday while working in a gully among the Silver Peaks. • " Hough on Kaxb."—Gloara out rat«, mice, roaches, ilies, a:iu>, bed-bug»,becuc», inircU, skunks, -JAckTaboi'f, gophers. Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosstrfr 0"., Agents, Christchurch. •*■ A gentleman who was about to marry a plain girl said to his friend : " It is not for her exterior but her inward beauty that 1 marry In r." •'Then, for goodness' sake," replied the fiiund, ''turn her insida out." A G-BBA.T BtrsiNESa.—The United States cf America is the home of a.me very Urge enterprise*, but cone perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mi G..GK Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U vS.A. He is the proprifltor of the well known Bosob.ee'a German Syrup, which is unequalled as a remedy f or Pulmonaiy and Broriohial affections. He manufactures also Green'B August Flower for dyspepsia and all disorders of the Liver. These preparations are used throughout the civilised world and thousand! testify to their valuable curative properties. Both these preparations have reached an immense »ale solely on their merits. Bample bottles of eaoh are sold at 6d, or full-sized bottlee at 3s 6d, AU druggists keep them.