TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1314, 12 March 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Excelsior, 35 days from Mauritius, arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday with 250 tone sugar. The case against Green, at Dunedin, for embezzlement, has been further remanded. It transpires-Ahat his defalcations exceed £4OO.

The places of business in Ashburton yesterday were closed from 12 to 2 p.m,, as a mark of respect to the late General Gordon.

Sir Julius Vogel arrived in Christchurch yesterday on his way to Dunedin, but in accordance with his expressed wish there was no demonstration.

Young’s body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon in a 22ft. hole, in the Pelorus river. The inquest was held on Tuesday night at Havelock, and resulted in a verdict of “ Accidentally drowned,” with a riders that “ the jury urge on the Government ihe necessity of the completion of the Pelorus bridge as early as possible, and the proper authorities are requested to open the track to the upper ford.” The funeral takes place at Blenheim to-day. The ford where the accident happened is very rough, and the approaches are bad, and no lights at night are kept burning on the unfinished bridge. William Young, the deceased, was single, aged 27, a native of England, and had no relatives in the colony.

Owing to numerous late applications for space in the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, the Executive on Monday recommended that the building b» extended, and the final date for receiving applications for the “General Branch” fixed for the 31st inst.

Mr Kennedy the Chairman of the Grey mouth Harbor Board has withdrawn his resignation. It has been decided to hold a fete in Lancaster Park, in Christchurch, in aid of the Andalusian earthquake relief fund. Over £SO in subscriptions have already been received.

A youth named George Hutchinson, 18 years old, was apprehended in Christchurch on Sunday night whilst endeavoring to force Ma way into the Salvation Army meeting at the Gaiety Theatre. Ho put out some of the gas lights, and generally behaved in a disorderly manner. He was brought up at the Police Court last Monday and fiaed £5. Some alarm was occasioned by passers through the cricket ground, Dunedin, on Monday evening by the conduct of a Mr ITulton, who, whilst under the influence of liquor, discharged a revolver three or four times. Ho was charged at the City Court on Tuesday with drunkenness, when it was stated by the police that for the safety of the public they had deemed it advisable to retain the revolver. Mr Fulton has been connected with the enrolling of the Soudan volunteers. The Dunedin Jockey Club have resolved to present the sum of £IOO, a portion of their profits from the totalisators at the late meeting, to the Benevolent Institution. This makes over £l7O received by the Institution from that source from the Spring and Autumn meetings. At the sitting of the Senate of the New Zealand University at Auckland the Bowen prize was awarded to a paper marked “ Omega,” and the second place to a paper marked u Dom Spiro Spero.” The former was found to bo that of Margaret Lorrimer and the latter Alfred A. Meeks, both of the Canterbury College. The subject set for competition was a comparative and historical review of tfyo constitutional relations of the British Colonies.

The terms offered for the conversion of the Consolidated Loan debentures of 1867 are to exchange them for consoli. dated debentures and other debentures bearing 5 per cent interest, having a currency of seven years, these debentures to be exchangeable at the end of seven years for 4 per cent inscribed stock at £lO7 for each £IOO. The offer is open to the 30ih April. Debentures deposited before the drawjng whiefi takes place fiefpre the end of this month will participate. The debentures drawn may exchange on paying a premium of £4. The Government have received the report of Major Cautley on the defence of the various porta in the colony, and they intend taking vigorous measures in giving effect to it.

A smart shock of earthquake was fait at Bleuhiem at eighteen minute* to six o’clock on Tuesday night. It was pre* ceded for apvefal secqnds fey a rumbling noise. It was also felt in Greymouth. A fracas whieh occurred in Rattray Street, Dunedin, last Tuesday afternoon between a welLkaqwn insurance can* vasaer and a professional gentleman who occupies a prominent position in musical circles caused considerable excitement among those who happened to be in the neighbourhood at the time. The assailant, who is a mao of exceedingly tall stature, administered $ ssyere horsewhipping to the musician, whq, on the other hand, is of very small build. Domestic matters are said to be the cause of the affair. The fracas will form a Police Court ease. The criminal statistics of Dunedin for 1884 show a decrease of 218 in the number of cases of drunkenness,

Mr A. Montgomery, bead of the teaching stuff in the Normal School, Dunedin, and a Tory well-known Otago teacher, died last Tuesday of heart disease. About a dozen charges of sly grogselling are to come before the Police Court in Dunodip against shanty-keepers at Nenthoru, on the Otago Central railway line. The Mornington (Dunedin) cable tramway extension to Mori hill' was formally opened on Tuesday, References were made to the fact that Mr Georg# Duncan, the eagincer of the line, was now engineer for the Melbourne tramway system, and that bis brother, Mr J. W. Duncan, the manager was about to proceed to t-'ydney with Mr Horace Bastings in order to construct the first cable line in that city, which is to be half a mile in length.

At tfie Resident Magistrate’s Court, Invercargill, Alexander Mcl-.tchlun, a farmer, was fined £2O for neglecting to comply with an order from the Rabbit Inspector requiring him to adopt means for the abatement of the rabbit nuisance on his property, An amusing dispute his arisen acnopg the Kingitps as to whp shall hay« the honor'‘of turning the first sod of the railway. Wuhanui was the first selected, but the o wners of the land where the railway commences have concluded it will infringe their mupa, so they object, and assert that one of their number must turn the sod.