TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1292, 20 January 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Hon. Mr Stout addresses his constituents at Dnnedin next Wednesday. At Palmerston, Utngo, on Saturday, A. Young, a nurseryman, was found drowned in the Shag river. It is supposed that he had fallen in during a fit. The Anchor Line s.s. Wallace left Nelson at 11.30 on Tuesday night for Wellington. The steamer made satisfactory progress until reaching what is known as the " Beef Barrel" near the French Pass when she went ashore when going at the rate of ten miles per hour. She broke off the whole of the blades of her piopellor and 6omo of her bottom plates were dented. She soon got off, but the engineer reported that she was making water, and boats were got out and she was towed across to the mainland where shß was beached in Waikara bay, the pumps worked by steam and the passengers just keeping her from sinking. The leak was stopped with tallow packing and spare propellor blades were shipped for the broken ones. She floated again at i 0 o'clock on Saturday right and at daylight on Sunday started for Nelson, she arrived safely. Mr Paul, the chief officer was in charge at the time*of the accident. An inquest will of course be held. At Blenheim, yesterday, Lieutenant Teasdale and seven members of the Salvation Army were charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court, on the information of the local manager of the Bank of New Zealand, with obstructing the market place by holding a meeting there on the 4th January. A second information charged Baker, Secretary of the Army and a resident of Wellington, with wantonly annoying the defendant by beating the big drum. The informant resides at the market place, and meetings had recently been held in the centre of the thoroughfare opposite his house. The Btandard-bearer stood in the centre, and the soldiers marched round and round him in a circle, \\ ith accompaniment of drum, cornets and flute. It is alleged that vehicles and pedestrians were prevented passing along in the ordinary way owing to the Army collecting a crowd, variously estimated at from 200 to 300. The Salvationists marched down to the Court, singing hymns, and on ending they knelt down on the floor of the Courthouse and prayed for Divine guidance. The defence i« that no obstruction was caused, but the result of the case did not leaob us in time for this issue.

The Hinemoa returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday with the Hon. the Colonial Seoretary and Minister for Justice and Mr G. S. Cooper on board. A number of larrikins, at Wanganui were yesterday fined 5s and costs for their pranks on New "V ear's Eve. The R.M , intimated that he dealt leniently with lite accused, as the charges were the first laid in Wanganui under the new Act. Mr Ballance probably leaves Wellington in the Hinemoa on Saturday. After Interviewing the Natives at Waikato and the Thames he visits the Natives at Tauranga and then goes on to Tologa Bay to see Major Ropata. He then visits Gisborne and Napier and returns to Wellington. After this he come South on business connected with the Land Department. The Auckland merchants are greatly dissatisfied with the direct steam arrangements and have instructed their English agents to ship via Sydney. An old man named Savage drowned himself in the Waikato at Cambridge on Friday. A man named John Langdon cut his throat at Ross and now liea in a very precarious state. Drink was the cause. The prizes in the draughts tournament were won as follows : Little (Christchurch), 35 wins out of 52 games ; Hood (Mount Somers), 34 wins ; Morris (Invercargill), 32 wins ; Raeside (Invercargill), 30 wins ; Montgomery (Port Chalmers), 29 wins. The Presbyterian Synod at Dunedin have decided to present a Bible in the Maori tongue, suitably inscribed, to each of the Maoris concerned in the rescue of Mrs Moiice at Balclutha. A man named Archd. Fraser, of Woodnaugh, Dunedin, was thrown out of his cart and run over last week. At first he was supposed to be uninjured, but he had to fake to his bed and on Friday he died. The Auckland Art aalLry has been presented by Mr McKeene with several valuable paintings and a number of sketches and drawings for the use of students. The body of an infant, without any clue to its identity, has been picked up on the beach at Napier. A case of " stieking-np " occurred at Napior early on Friday morning. A mun named Watts was returning home when he was set upon by two men, who robbed him of eight £1 notes. The robbers were arrested on Saturday morning and remanded. The captain of the ship Warwick, Edward Faulkner, now at Port Chalmers, was on Saturday fined £5 and costs for nssaulting a seimin named Oscar Schneider during the voyage from Calcutta to Otago. The evidence was that Schneider was told by the Captain to carry some tackle to the forecastle, but as he did not set about it properly the Captain put the hook of the block and tackle into Schneider's mouth and jerked the rope so that his mouth was made to bleed. The captain also struck him in the face. Mr Fraser, counsel for Schnieder, also stated that the man bore the marks on his side where the flesh was torn by an albatross which was set on him after he was stripped down to the waist by the defendant, but the Magistrate would not allow the evidence to be gone into as the charge was not before the Court. The i captain denied the assault with the hook, but admitted hitting complainant about the legs with a rope, etc. On leaving the court he was loudly groaned at by a large concourse of people.