TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1300, 7 February 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

i fierce whirlwind vvas experienced oa the Papakaio Plain near Oamaru on Wednesday afternoon. The wind lifted the roof off n blacksmith's shop, overturned two threshing mill*, leaving one with its wheels in the air, knocked down trees, and levelled everything that stood in its way. The area it passed over was foitunately not large. The Dunedin Times says that Mr Larnach is to be called to the Upper House before the session. The Tarawera returned to Dunedin from her second West Coast Sounds excursion on Wednesday morning. The weather was not so favorab ! e as on the first trip, but the excursionists thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The schooner Aurora," from Samoa to Auckland, brings news to tho effect that the Germans are exceedingly annoyed at the action of King Malietoa in peiiiioning the British Government, and it is reported they are fermenting a movement to depose him in favor of the Vice-Kintr, Tamase, who is more favorable to German interests. When the Aurora left, Mr Weber, a German merchant, Tamase, and several chiefs were holding a conference on the subject. No open hostility had been shown towards the King. Mr J. S. Mackenzie. M.H.R. for Maniototo, addressed hi? constituents at Naseby last Tuesday night. He defended the alliance between Mr Stout and Sir Julius Vogel. He characterised the cry for enlarged local government as spurioup, arising largely from ignorance of the work doue by iuterior County Councils, whose members were doing better work for New Zealand than the men who babbled in Parliament about the com* i(u tion of Counties. He said constitution mongers were a curse to a next to dynamiters. A vote of .Oi fi no waa passed. The Auckland detectives for some weeks past have been shepherding a Mrs Connell, tho reputed wife of a man named Cornelius ConneiJ, one of the. persons Buspected of having had a hand in the Eandwick murder, New .South Wales, and who made his escape from that colony. It was suppoped Mrs Connall had oometo Auckland for the purpose of meeting her husband. It now transpires that Connell is not her husband, and he believed to be in Suva or Fiji. G. Black, draper, of Akaroa, was on Wednesday Failing back from French F*rm in the Pinafore when his boat was swamped. The ketch Black wall, while sailing up the harbor, found him floating about insensible, supported by the oars, and returned with him to Akaroa. He is doin<r well. Mr J. R. Gardiner, mill owner, Oust, while out shooting; on Wednesday, accidentally shot himself in tho abdomen, und expired oa Thursday morning. The total cost of the new, High. "School buildings, Dunedin, which are to be opened next week, is abom £IB,OOO. TheOhinamen arrested at Dunedin for fan-tan playing on Sunday were brought before the Po'ice Court ou Thurg. day. Two, who were churged with being the occupiers of the limine in which Hie gaming was carried on, were rach fined £5 and rnsts, and eighteen others were each fined 20. s «*ud costs. The Haweru police on Thursday se : zed an illicit mill on the Ocoiu-Opahii Block, butween and Mamuahi. Miclucl Bourke (brewer), fiarry Hughes (brcvri's assistant), Thos. Lloyd (publiea,), G«o. Beamish (au ex-publican) and John Anderson (one of the whiskey makers) have been arrested.