TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1299, 5 February 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Booth’s temperance mission meetings at the Theatre .Royal, Auckland, are packed nightly, and numbers are refused admission. Over 2000 have taken the pledge. P.P.G.M., C, P. Kearns, the oldest Oddfellow in New Zealand, died at Stoke, Nelson, on Monday, aged 68. He had been an Oddfellow over 50 years, and assisted to start the Order in Nelson 43 years ago. , The body of a child was found in the Avon on Monday. At the inquest the verdict was “Found drowned.” Michael Bonner, brewer, was on Monday arrested at Hawera for having been discovered in possession of a quantity of spirits on which duty has not been paid. A deputation of country sheep-farmers waited on Chief Inspector Bayley at Dunedin on Saturday, to request him to urge the Government to continue the importation of stoats and weasels, as the only sure means of coping with the rabbit pest. Mr Bayley promised to make known the representations of the deputation, who intend getting up a petition to Government on the subject. A dead body has been found in the Waikato river. It is supposed to be that of Gyde, the engineer of the . steamer Rangiriri, who was drowned seven weeks ago. The Auckland Hospital Commissioners are now investigating a charge against the House Surgeon for the alleged illrreatrnent of a patient. At last Government parade at Wanganui, Volunteer Churton, the rifle champion, was presented with the National Rifle Association’s medal and his rifle, purchased by the corps from the Government. A man named Gardner Orlando Curtis, died suddenly on Tuesday morning at Castle Poiut, Wellington. The cause of Iris death is not known. A. G. Spreat, who recently attempted to commit suicide, was charged with the offence at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, on Tuesday afternoon, and was bound over in a surety of £IOO to keep the peace for three months. A meeting of A. Moore’s creditors was held at Christchurch on Tuesday. Tie liabilities, so far as known, are, £15,000. The National Bank is a creditor for nearly £13,000, but is partly secured. The available assets are small. A charge has been laid against a member of the Salvation Army in Blenheim for exposing War Orys for sale on Sundays, The Customs revenue collected in the colony for last month amounted to £126,260, as against £.122,210 for the corresponding month of last year. The total amount of Customs-revenue collected in the colony for the ten months of the financial year is £1,177,148. The beer duty last month was' £4922, and for January, 1884, £4832, The beer duty for the ten months of the financial year is £45,938, being a surplus 0f.£195 .on the Colonial Treasurer’s estimate. The Undaunted Company at Tinkers (Otago) divide £350 per man for eight months’ work. Work has again been commenced at the MiHon Pottcy Works, under the management of Mr Guy Neville, a nephew of Bishop Neville. There are five men and about the same number of boys now employed, ■ ' A twelve hours’ walking match for £IOO a-side will take, place between. Joe Scott and Hancock, the English pedestrian, on the 21st inst. at Dunedin.