TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1281, 23 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

An Auckland Cricket team leaves on a southern tour to-day. A Dairy Prod nee and Bacon Factory has been .started at Cmibridge. The Auckland City Council have declined to allow preaching in 'he Park. The settlement of the Patere (Auckland) blocks will be proceeded with actively, Mr Rich assuming charge of the operations as local director. Up to the present the Company has spent £23.000 in improvements and general expenses. The sub-editor of the Napi.r Daily Telegiaph, Mr J. T. Cook, had a narrow escape from drowning on Friday. He was bathing and was carried out to sea by the current. He had been in the water three quarters of an hour and was sinking for the third time before he was rescued. A man named Charles Osborne was killed on Thursday at Mungapakeha, by falling off the shaft of a loaded dray, which passed over his body. He leaves a wife and three children. A storeman named Win. T. Eddie was drowned in the Wanganui river on Friday afternoon. Ho took the cramp" while bathing. He leaves a wife and five children. Professor Kirk, formerly of the Christchurch University, has been deputed by the Government to report on the forests of New Zealand. Mr Kirk will commence operations at Invercargill, and work his way northwards as far as the Bay of Islands. It is understood that next session the Government will bring down a scheme for the conservation of forests. A lumper named LowMaco onboard the steamer Hawea at Wellington had both lbs legs broken and was internally injured by a number of sheets of corrugated iron {which were being put down the hold getting loose and tailing on him. He has had one leg amputated. A man named Thomas Hobbs fell down the hatchway of ths ship Trevelyan at Wellington on Friday, and sustained serious injury to his spine. The case is critical. A girl named Isabella Stewart, the daughter of the schoolmaster at Lower Harbor, Port Chalmers, fell into the tire and was severely burned on Thursday night. She died on Saturday evening. A Board of Appeal, to whom railway emp'oyees can refer their grievances, has been appointed at Christchurch by the Government. The Board consists of Messrs Bed ham, R.M., Richard Westenra and Geo. Roberts. If the Board is a success Boards will be appointed for other branches of the Civil Service. A fire occurred on Fiiday on the ship Marlborough, which is now loading frozen mutton at Oatnaru for London. 8000 carcasses of mutton were on board, but only 40 were damaged befoie the fire, the origin of which is not known, was extinguished. An important native meeting will be held at Ranan», London, 50 miles up the Wanganui River, on January 7th. The Native Minister will be present to explain the intention of the Government. The Government have received a cable message fr>-m the Agent General advising them that the Executive of the Colonial Exhibition. 1886, have increased the space allotted to New Zealand to 10,000 feet. At Eden Creek, in Manioioto County, on Friday night a rabbiter named Jas. Galloway fell from his horse and has since died in Naseby Hospital. He, was well connected but was addicted to drink. He was a single man. At the Police Court, Dunedin, on Saturday, Buucaup Jacob Vankyke was committed for trial for shooting at Mary Anne Wadsworth with intention to kill. Miss Wadsworth in her evidence said she had never spoken to the man in Iter life. He bad at times bidden her mother ,s good morning,” bat that was all. Mrs Wadsworth said she knew accused by sight, but knew nothing of hi u except that he used to pass tteir place and sometimes said “ good morning” to her. He was never in their house. Between twelve and one on the day of the shooiing, witness and her daughter were driving home in their milk cart and passed accused in his carl. They drove by very quickly. Accused waved his hand and shouted “ Hey,” and kept wit.iin easy distance from witness’ cart till he got to his own house. When he saw that witness and her daughter had passed, he stamped his foot and seemed in a great rage. Mr Stanford, who appeared for accused, asked for bail, which the Bench fixed at £2OO, with two sureties of £IOO each.