TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1295, 27 January 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The s.s. lonic arrived at Auckland from New Caledonia yesterday and brings news of the total wreck of the French warship La Chere, near Noumea. The crew was saved. In the District Court, Dunedin, yesterdry Judge Ward suspended the order of discharge of a bankrupt for an indefinite time because he was not a trader and had incurred a number of small debts. The Tarawera arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday morning from her trip to the West Coast Sounds, The weather was favourable and the trip proved most enjoyable. Concerts, theatrical performances, balls, and a regatta took place. Joseph Davie, licensee of th* TuaMarina Hotel, Blenheim, was committed for trial for unlawfully altering a cheque on the Bank of New Zealand, the charge being laid under the Forgery Act. It is alleged the accused, who is an old resident and a man of property, filled up a cheque for £l2 at the request of one O'Leary, and after deducting an o’d debt gave a few shillings change to O’Leary. O’Leary swears he signed it for £1 on ly, and alleges the accused afterwards altered the words and figures from one to twelve, for which latter sum the accused cashed it. Bail was allowed, accused in £3OO, and two sureties of £l6O each. A Gazette notifies that the Governor will grant a free pardon to any person implicated, not being the principal offender, who wiM give such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of any one or more of the persons concerned in the setting fire to the premises of the New Zealand Timber Company at Auckland on the lOih inst. Application was made in the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Friday to have Moore, of A. Moore and Co., grain merchants, adjudicated a bankrupt. Moore is absent in England, but a lawyer who appeared for him said he had not left with the intention of defrauding his creditors, and that he would return in February, The application was adjourned. At Leeston on Friday evening a girl named Elizabeth Ireland was arrested on suspicion of having set tire to Thornm Frankish’s house last Monday week. The accused was a servant at Frankish’s, and ha* hitherto borne a good character. In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, on Friday, Oscar Schneider, the sued Captain Fawkner, of the Warwick, for £ls damages for assault. Evidence was given for the plaintiff that on the 20th November, or about that date, the captain went up to the plaintiff, striking him on the left ear and afterwards kicking him. Schneider gave the captain no provocation. Later on in the voyage the captain had Schneider stripped down to the waist, and allowed an albatross which he held to peck at him. A witness al«o saw the captain strike Schneider and knock him down with his fists. The hearing of the case was adjourned, A Mrs Mary Ann Packer has been committed for (rial at Ormnndvillo for manslaughter, it being alleged that she caused the death of a child of Mr John Ball at which she attended at its birth a few weeks ago. The body of an infant was discovered on Saturday in a box at the mouth of the Ngaruroro river (Hawke’s Bay), It appears to have been in the box some time. The Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company have made a profit for the past year of 10 per cent. The body of Henry Lloyd, who was buried in the fall of earth at Pukerau tunnel (Wellington), was recovered at three on Saturday morning. At the Supreme Court. Wellington, on Friday, Waring Taylor was found guilty of having converted to his own use, with intend to defraud, the »um of £BOO, which had been entrusted to him by Jus. May for investment on first-class security, on the 10th Sept., 1881, Sentence has been deferred till the July sitting to allow the reserved points to be decided by the Appeal Court. The other charges will not be heard until these cases have been disposed of.

Large bush tires ar» raging at Makatoku in Hawke’s Bay. Numbers of saw mills and imirem-e quantities of timber h'->vis been destroyed. A civil engineer named J. C. Prow, Hokitika, met with a fatal accident while after some ducks with a gun on SauMay last. The charge struck him in the face. At Teviot station (Otago), on Tuesday morning lust, James Isbiater, a partner in a contract for ploughing, committed suicide by hanging. Deceased had latterly been low-spirited, as if (a witness at the inquest said) he were dissatisfied with his team of horses. A verdict of “ suicide by hanging” was returned. The twenty-four hours’ walking match between Hancock, the English pedestrian, and Joe Scott, of Dune tin, resulted in an easy win for Scott, who did 114 miles comfortably. Hancock gave up at 100, when he was seven nrles behind. Hancock was apparently >n bid health, while Scott was in splendid form, A fire broke out at Auckland oo S turday nigh on the upper fl-mr of a two. storey hnildi-.g Oceania i hy Mi-kinhv (a sign writer) Da'is (a g iddier) m J K Holnvs (a ncauic arti t). Tim fir • ’as quickly put out, and Unimex, being missed, a seach was ma le, and nU tuny was fiu d. It was not scorched nr ti-rn', death having evidently resulted from suffocation. In the Supreme 0 ur', Dunedin, on Saturday, Tnnmas Surman s«-d Kuast and McCarthy fir £2OO dam -ges for trespass. The plaintiff ul egad that the Shamrock Hotel, Timaru, was on the 2nd day of November 1883, in the possession of William Morgan a« tenant thereof to the plaintiff and the defend mts on the day in question wrongfully entered upon the hotel and premise*, whereby the plaintiff’s reversion was injured. After hearing he defence Mr Justice Williams nonsuited the plaintiff. During the quarter ended Dec-mber 3rd money orders to the number of 60,484 and of a value of £148,547 Oh 10* *ero issued. For the same quarter of 1883 the number was 47,896 and il e value £144,952 18s 8 J. The Savings Bank deposits for the same quarter were £301,2019* 6d md withdrawals £287,092 14a sd. For the same period in 1883, the deposits were £267 200 13s 6d, and th* withdrawals £281,105 lx 2d.

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