TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1313, 10 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Wild Wave has arrived at Port Chalmers from Hobart.

Sir Juh'ue Vogel tins consented to address a meeting in Dunedin. The escort took £25,000 worth of gold to Dunedin on Saturday evening. A goose-beak whale, a very rare fish, was caught at Kaikoura on Sunday. The charge of arson against Mtdeme Valentine at Auckland was dismissed.

Seven hundred immigrants are due in Auckland during the next three months. The skip Waimea, 130 days from London, arrrived at Dunedin from London yesterday, Mr John Lundon has failed to induce a deputation of native chiefs to accompany him fro « Samoa,

The Manaia has been floated off the sandbank at the entrance of the Wairatt river. She is uninjured. The Salvation Army has purchased a section of land for £llOO near the Supreme Court, Christchurch, for headquarter barracks,

Another police prosecution against a man for disturbing the Salvation Army was heard at Blenheim yesterday. The charge was dismissed. At a large meeting of farmers held in Oamaru on Saturday afternoon it was resolved to continue the present usage of charging for sacks with grain. The body of a female child about three days old has been found on Shelly Beach,, Auckland, sewji up in a gunny bag. The police are'investigating the matter. John Connolly, arrested for arson, was on Friday at Auckland charged with setting fire to his dwelling with intent to defraud the South British Insurance Company. A large sale of shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company was held in Christchurch on B’riday. Some 3800 were disposed of at prices ranging from 6d to Is 3d.

The post mortem examination on the infant found in a bag on Shelly Beach, Auckland, shows that death was caused by violence, as the skull is fractured in two places. A farmer at Fendaltown, Christchurch, named William Pent, committed suicide on Friday morning by poisoning himself with strychnine. He had been strange in his conduct for some time past.

A private telegram received in Christchurch states that Mr R, T. Booth, the temperance missionary, will probably visit Christchurch if lie is able to obtain a release from his engagements at Ballarat, The Doric took a cargo valued at. £25,125 from Port Chalmers. The Turakina sailed from Port Chalmers en Saturday with a cargo valued at £71,327, including 52 quarters of beef and 12,000 sheep. At the adjourned Fire Brigades’ Competition, Dunedin won Shand and Mason’s prize, being victorious ia the manual engine and hose and reel competitions, while South Dunedin won the curricle practice. A daring robbery was committed at Marton on Saturday night. A man entered the house of a Mrs Goodhue during the absence of her husband, throttled her and robbed her of £23. The robber has not yet been arrested. The Committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Partoral Association has decided by a narrow majority to recommend the general meeting to purchase more commodious grounds for show purposes, close to the Addington railway station.,

William M. Young, of the firm of Eard snd Young, merchants, Blenheim, was drowned oh Sunday afternoon while' crossing the Pelorus river on a sporting trip to Manngatapa. His horse stumbled and threw its rider, who was washed down stream, the current being very rapid. The body has not yet been recovered. , A half-caste named J, C. Cuff, alias Robert Taylor, who is charged with forging a promissory note for over £IOO, at In* vercargill, and who escaped from custody on February 26th at Waiau, was recaptured by Detective Jones at the Rotherham Hotel, between Hnrunui and Waiau, on Friday. He is in a feeble condition from exposure and privation. A farm hand named Fitzpatrick met with, very serious injuries on Thursday in the Clutha district, through his horses bolting down hill with a reaper and binder ’he was driving,. He was found two hours after the occurrence. The knives had cut one of his legs fearfully, his head was very badly bruised, several riba were broken, and the iron teeth had pricked his body severely in many placee. Dr rimith has gone to amputate the leg, but it is feared the man will not survive the operation. The Rifle Association meeting commenced at Wellington yesterday morning. The weather was fine though dull, with a strong north-west wind blowing straight down the range. About 241 competitors are present; Major Butts, Adjutant pf the Wellington district, is in command, Sixteen targets are in use, 6 at 200yds and 300yds, and the remainder at long distances. The shooting will probably extend over eight days, but if possible the championship will be decided on Friday afternoon, A fortnight ago a young man named Thomas Perreter received a month’s imprisonment at Inve r Cirgill for stowing away in (he Kotomabana, from Port Chalmers to Bluff. On Saturday he assaulted one of the gaol warders and was charged with the offence in Court. The Bench sentenced him to six months’ inqprisonment. Before the sentence was imposed, prisoner, who was very defiant, swore at the Magistrates and afterwards addressed most filthy language to them. The prisoner is well known to the police all, over the colony, having received thirteen con victims— in two cases under the names of Smith and Lundon ; -

Two Dunedin tourists, Messrs M. Rosa and G. Marshall accompanied by Harry Birley, a guide, made a very successful ascent of Mount Earnslaw, at the head of Lake VVakatipu, on Wednesday last. They reached a point on the eastern glaalep 8500 feet above the sea level, or 2000 feet higher than Mr Marshall. accomplished last j r ear, and a good deal higher than the Rev. ifr Green achieved in 1882, The top of the mountain was enveloped in a fog, so that it could not be reached. The ascent and descent occupied fourteen hours. Mr Waddell, an English tourist, accompanied the party as far as the snow-line, but gave in there.