TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1312, 7 March 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Auckland and Thames shootin grepresenfatives left per Te Anau yesterday. In the cricket watch, Nelson v. Wellington, at the latter p’ace, Wellington went in flrst, and at 2 p. in. yesterday had lost 4 wickets for 49 runs. Nine tenders wore received for the erection of the Art Gallery and Library at Auckland. That of Price and Malcolm, at L 19.500, has been accepted. The Auckland City Council have dacided to recommend closing the present cemetery after January Ist next, as it is now in the centre of the city, and a dense population surrounds it. An old Auckland resident, Wm. McKinsley, commission agent, who had been suffering from melancholia for the last few days, was found at dusk on Wednesday night in a gully on the Surrey Hills estate, dead, with his throat cut and a razor in his hand. It is understood that several transfers are about to be made in the Detective Jb'orce in the colony. Detective Ghrystall, of Wellington, is to be stationed at Dunedin, and his place there will betaken by Detectiye Henderson, of Dunedin. Detective Grace, of Napier, and Detective Bain, of Dunedin, will exchange stations. An information for perjury has been laid against T. E. Price, bookseller, Mastarton. The offence is alleged to have been committed during the hearing of an affiliation case soma time ago. The funeral of the lute Mr M. H. Oram, proprietor of the Royal Hotel, who died suddenly at Dunedin on Saturday, took place in Christchurch on Wednesday afternoon. The hoarse was preceded by a large number of members of the Masonic Order and was followed by a train of fifty carriages. . The annual report of the Directors of the Tramway Company showed a surplus of £1630. It was decided to place £lslß to the temporary reserve account, and issue 2928 new shares among the present shareholders. The Directors were empowered to transfer from the reserve fund from time to time amounts equal to 14s per share on the existing shares when the new shares are issued, that is, practically each shareholder‘on paying 6s will receive a new share of 20s paid up. A telegram from Christchurch on Thursday says the weather is still gloomy, with heavy showers, and there is little indication of a change for the better. Harvest operations have now been at a complete standstill for over a week, and it is reported that in many cases the wheat is commencing to sprout. , John Harrigan, of Oamarn, who had gone down to go to the Dunedin hospital, was found dead in feed on Wednesday morning at the Leviathan Hotel.

Mr Macarab Bead, Governor of the .Terraco Gaol, Wellington, has been called upon to retire, on account of age. Mr Read is 65 years of age, and has been Governor of the Gaol for 25 years.

Samuel Green, a laborer working on the Fernhill railway branch line, Otago, died suddenly last Tuesday night, it is supposed from heart disease. The deceased, who was 57 years of age, left Green Island last Tuesday evening with the intention of returning to his tent, and he was found dead on the railway line at six o’clock on Wednesday morning. Deceased, who leaves a wife and family residing at Roslyn, bad been under medical treal--naent-som© timc-ago fcr boarc disease. At the R.M. Court, Napier, last Thursday, a man, formerly boots at tbe Caledonian Hotel, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for stealing grog. He is heir to a fortune of £12,000, which is now on its way out to him. The Mornington (Dunedin) wire cable tramway to Maori Hill is half a mile long, and over a portion of it the car descends the steepest grade in the world.

Further evidence was taken at Dunedin last Thursday in the charge against Thos. McKenzie, mate of the Janet Ramsay, for the attempted murder of the captain by throwing Mm overboard. The evidence went to show that the captain called the mate a liar, and the latter made a rush at the captain, who went overboard. The latter at once called out “ The skipper’s overboard.” The charge was dismissed, the evidence not supporting it. The Mayor has at the request of a number of the citizens telegraphed to the Premier requesting him and Sir Julius Vogel to address a public meeting in Dunedin at an early date.

The Gear Meat Company (Wellington) have just preserved between 20 and 30 cases of fish for Nicholas E’ernandez, fishmonger, who intends to send them to India and Home as an experiment, and endeavor to open up a market for fish. The delegates for the various Art Societies of New Zealand met last Thursday in Wellington to examine designs for certificates and medals to be awarded to the prize-winners in tho New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, 1885. Mrs Samuel Best, of Filuel street, Dunedin, gained the prige for design for certificate of merit, and Mr Peter Ellis, of Sydenham, Canterbury, for the design for a medal. At a Wellington Licensing Committee meeting on Thursday, reference was made to Sunday trading. The Chairman of the Committee said he quite believed that difficulty was experienced in convicting publicans of Sunday trading, owing to the number of loopholes for escape which existed. Inspector Goodall remarked that the present Licensing Act was not nearly so good as the one previously in existence, his experience being that it was about a hundred limes more difficult to secure a conviction now than under tbe old Act. The lad William who was in? jured on the (jaYersham tramway on Tuesday, died at the hospital on Thursday afternoon.

Cable advice was received in Dunedin on Thursday from Glasgow announcing the death of Mr Japies Galfiraith on the 4th instant, The deceased gentleman was senior partner in the well-known shipping firm of P. Henderson and Co., of Glasgow, and was afterwards managing director of the Albion Company, and on its amalgamation with Shaw-Savill and Co., became a member of the Board of Directors,