TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1293, 22 January 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Board of Directors of the Government Assurance Association hold their first meeting to-morrow. A young man named Brooks, a son of the Inspector of Permanent Way on the Wellington-Masterton railway, was drowned in the Hutt river on Monday. He was seized with the cramp while bathing. A meeting of the Committee of Aid and Advice to the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition was held at Wellington on Monday night, when a number of subcommittees were appointed to carry out certain details. A little girl, three years old, the daughter of a farmer named Finlay Muckay, was drowned in a small well at Mataura on Monday. The Dunedin and Suburban Tramway Co. have a credit balance of £1732 7a 2d, which is £035 17s 9d less than the previous year, though a saving of £2603 10s 9d has been effected in the working. The income from fares has fallen off by £3705 7s 3d and this is attributed to the depression. In the Supremo Court, Christchurch, on Monday, a farmer named Hussy obtained a verdict for £IOO damages for slander against Charles William Turner, the agent of the N.Z.L. and M.A, Co. ad Rakaia. £ISOO damages were claimed. The enquiry into the beaching of the Wallace on Beef Barrel Reef at the entrance to the French Pass on Saturday morning resulted in the chief officer’s (Mr W. F. Paul) certificate being suspended for 3 months, but be was not saddled with the costs of the enquiry. From the evidence it seemed he had been on duty from G a.ra. till 11 p.m. on Thursday, and from 4 a.in, till 11 p.m. on Friday. At 11 o’clock he went off for an hour and resumed charge at 12. he attributed the accident to his becoming drowsy. 153 stoats and weasels for the New Zealand Government arrived by the lonic from London at Wellington on Tuesday. Mr R. T. Booth, the temperance lecturer, has arrived in Auckland from Sydney and commences to lecture at once. The charge of obstruction against the Salvation Army ac Blenheim was dismissed, but the complainant gave notice of appeal. The information against Baker, tire Secretary, for wantonly disturbing Mr Fildes by beating a drum was postponed till next Monday. The complainant offered to withdraw it, but the Army declined to accept the withdrawal, as they wish to test the question. A fatal accident happened in Lyttelton harbor on Tuesday last. A man named Mark Thomas, the mail carrier to Parau, was taking the mail and three passengers to Parau in an open boat, when the boat was swamped just after clearing the breakwater, and Joseph King, one of the passengers, was drowned. The others clung to the mast of the boat and were saved. A man named Joseph Kinsell, working on the relief works on the Waiau-Kuikoura Road, was poisoned by eating tutu berries on Tuesday. It is thought he will recover. At the meeting of the Presbyterian Synon, Dunedin, on Tuesday evening, the Rev. W. Bannernan was presented with a purse of 500 sovs., subscribed by the Presbyterians of Otago. On Tuesday a poll was taken at Napier on the proposal to raise a loan for the purpose of proceeding with the Harbor Works at that place. The proposal was Carried by an immense majority. The animal sitting of Hie New Zealand United Methodist District Mealing was opened at Christchurch on Tuesday. Alt the churches in the colony were represented. The Waring Taylor case was concluded at Wellington on Tuesday afternoon, when the jury, after three-quarters of an hour’s deliberation, found the prisoner guilty on all the counts except the fourth, on which His Honor had diree'ed them to acquit him. On the application of the prisoners counsel, sentence was postponed until the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court in July next, in order to allow certain points which have been reserved to be argued in the Appeal Court. Bail was accepted, himself in £2OOO, and two sureties of £IOOO each. The Court adjourned until Friday morning, and in the meantime the prosecuting counsel will communicate with the Attorney-General as to whether the shall proceed with the other charges against Taylor.