TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1311, 5 March 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

William Reid, an old resident at Waikouaiti, died of heart disease last Monday night. The Dunedin Licensing Committee declined to entertain till their annual meeting any applications for eroded hours, The Otago Education Board election resulted in the return of Messrs Fraer, Brown and Fraser,

A seaman of the cutter Rose, believed to be Robert Clarke, formerly of Gisborne, has been run over by a tram car at Auckland and killed.

It is stated that when Parliament meets attention will, aj a matter of privilege, be called to the charges of drunkenness which have been made and repeated by a Wei. lington paper regarding hon, members. A warrant baa been issued for the arrest of W. S. Kearlyfor embezzling sums of money belonging to the Wellington Horticultural Society. Kearly had been employed to collect moneys on behalf of the Society. A boy named Fraser, seven years old, who was riding on the Caversham tram-, car (Dunedin) on Monday, unknown to the corn!actor or driver, fell off. His screams caused the driver to stop the car. it was found that the flesh was torn froiq one leg, exposing the bone,

Gerald Massey is delivering a series of lectures in Wellington.

Thomas Robins, nine years old, was drowned while bathing in a water hole near Gore on Saturday. A subscription list has been opened in Wellington in aid of the sufferers by the recent earthquakes in Andalusia, Spain. On Tuesday evening Mr M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Greymouth Harbor Board, tendered his resignation as Chairman and member of the Board. He was not satisfied with the way in which the business of the Board was proposed to be gone on with. The question of removing the Police Department from that of the Defence Department and placing it under the control cf the Minister ot Justice is being considered by the Cabinet. It is understood that the Hon. Mr Tole is favorable to this being done, as also are one or two other members of the Government. The annual exhibition of the Canterbury Society of Arts was opened on Monday evening by His Honor Mr Justice Johnston, in the presence of a largo number of visitors. Both the loan collection and the exhibits of working members are exceptionally good. The Society now consists of over 100 members, half of whom are working members. At the settling on the Dunedin Jockey Club races the total amount paid over was £4OBO. The Hon. W. Robinson received £1165, Mr D. O’Brien £660, Mr J. Stephenson £489, Mr G. G. Stead £361, Major George £290, Mr G.. H. Clifford £245, Mr J. Smith £l9O, Mr J. Pilbrow £l4O, and Mr G. Bate £135. The other amounts paid were under £lO9. Sergeant Denny, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was a passenger to Wellington by the Rimutaka which arrived from London on Tuesday. He comes out to New Zealand for the purpose of taking back the man Sheehan, who was arrested in Auckland on a charge of having murdered some of his relatives in Ireland several years ago. He left for Auckland by the Arawata on Tuesday evening. The Hon. Mr Ballance will shortly leave Wellington for the South on business connected with the Lands Department. It is not improbable that he may accompany Sir Julius Yogel, to Christchurch. While in the South Mr Ballance will endeavor to form small farm settlements. Six of these associations, of 100 members each, are already in existence in the Wellington and Napier districts. Further examinations into the accounts of the Auckland Grammar School Trust, show that the defalcations of the late secretary were heavier that were at first supposed. The cause of Mr James’s difficulties appear to have been that as a matter of business, he had been in the habit of backing bills for a consideration. His books show that an Onelmnga shipping firm that failed some lime ago, were his debtors to over £3OOO.

Tor some time past the Government have been inviting tenders for a large number of sleepers for the North Island Trunk Railway and other works, but the price is so high that the full amount will not be accepted, and fresh tenders will, it is thought, be called shortly. Should the high price of sleepers bo maintained in the colony the Cabinet will consider the question of importing sleepers. The following is the amount of space alloted for the Industrial Exhibition Auckland, 2900 ft ; Thames, 300 fl ; Hawkes Bay, 848 ft; Gisborne, 402 ft ; New Plymouth, 225 ft ; Wellington, 10,308 ft; Wanganui. 773 ft; Marlborough, 180 ft; Nelson, 1282 ft ; Hokitika, 40ft; Greymouth, 365 f t; Akaroa, 300 f t; Timaru, 230 ft ; Oatnaru, 500 f t; Invercargill, 410 f t; Christchurch, 8484 ft ; Dunedin, 9215 ft. 5500 ft have been allotted to the Art section; 10,000 to Home industries, and 1800 ft for passages, the total allotted being 69,404 ft. Stephen Camel latto, a well-known miner of the Grey Valley, was almost crushed to dsatlr on Monday at German Gully, Ahaura, while cutting a head race, by a siding slipping. He sustained shocking injuries. When the cutting gave way the stumps and debris rolled over the deceased, jamming his body among logs and roots in a hollow below. He was extricated alive, but the bones of the legs protruded through his trousers, his ears were bleeding, his chest crushed, and his head was injured. On being carried to his house, he said, “ Oh, let me rest; let ■> me rest; it will soon be over.” He expired in twenty minutes.