TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1317, 19 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Jamas Irwin, a sailor belonging to the schooner Marmion, has been stabbed at Teuopuru, Auckland, by a French Canadian named Frank Barker. . Irwin is in a dangerous state, his entrails having protruded. In Auckland the damage by Saturday’s gale was heavier than estimated. It appears to have swept the greater part of the province. The total damage in the province was many thousands of pounds’ worth.

Mr Levitt Bostun, a delegate of the Women’s Christian Temperance Mission, was presented with a purse of sovereigns on the closing of the Mission at Auckland. An inquest was held on Monday morning on the body of Mr Robert Miller, father of the well-known stock and station agent, who died on Thursday, at Napier, aged 85. Deceased was very ill, and rapidly sinking, and from the evidence it appeared that during the night ho had a dose of liniment administered to him inadvertently for the proper medicine, A verdict of accidental death was returned.

Behrendt, one of the men injured by the trap accident on Thursday, at Foildiog, died on Monday morning. In the' Divorce Court, at Christchurch, on Monday, in the case William Lowden Bevington v. Maria Bavington and William King, a degree nisi was granted. The petitioner and respondent were married in 1871. In 1879 the respondent loft her husband, and has since been living with the co-respondent. Messrs Scott Bros., of Christchurch, are the successful tenderers for the construction of locomotives for the sow Zealand Railways. A. member of the firm is President of the Canterbury Industrial Association.

A serious affray took place between Italian fishermen at Taumutu, near Lake Ellesmere, on Monday afternoon. A house belonging to Rafael Portelli was occupied by Nicholas Bassi, who refused to quit. Portelli and two other fishermen went to obtain possession, when Bassi fired at them with a gun and wounded a man named Antonio Gurar in the leg. He then clubbed the gun and struck Andrew Nicholas on the head. Eventually the three managed to overpower him and sent for the police. At the Dunedin Police Court on Monday Joseph Green, on a charge of embezzling altogether £2OO, the property of Reid and Duncan, his employers, was committed for trial, bail being allowed. The gale on Saturday brought down three of the stone pinnacles on the spire of the Presbyterian First Church, Dunedin, the damage being estimated at £SO. The Kaitangata Railway and Coal Company have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. The Dunedin Jockey Club have increased the added money for the May meeting from £BOO to £llOO, St. Patrick’s day was celebrated in Auckland with great ecldt by the Hibernian Catholic School fSte, at which 1200 children were present. Sports were held under the auspices of the H. A. 0.8. Society. The eight hours’ demonstration was a comparative failure; a railway excursion to Waikato was patronised by 700 passengers. At the Supreme Court in Wanganui John Russell was convicted of stealing from the person, and was sentenced to two labour. H. B. Yowles was convicted on a charge of embezzling money from the Government Insurance Department, A point raised, that he was not a servant of Her Majesty the Queen, not haring been appointed by the Governor was reserved. Alfred Stephens pleaded guilty to a charge of horse-steal-ing, and sentence was deferred. A human skeleton was found last Tuesday on the Spur between Waiotahu and Collarbone Creek, Thames, with a rusty aheath knife in its right hand. The remains have been identified by the clothing as those of George Dixon, a prospector, who disappeared mysteriously in September last. • Messrs Murdoch and Rose of Wellington, are the successful tenderers for the erection of the Exhibition Buildings. The barque Kenilworth, which arrived from New Itork at Wellington was boarded by the islanders at Tristan D’Acmiha and storas were exchanged. The population of the island at the time consisted of nineteen families, or 104 souls. They complained of being very short of provisions, and expressed a wish | that more vessels would visit them. 1

M’Coy who was injured during a fight at Tenui races died at Masterton on Monday. In hie depositions he exonerated everyone from blame. A verdict to the effect that there was nothing to show whether deceased died from misadventure or the effect of exposure was returned.

The Engineer of the Humphrey's Company reports that he has through and completed the connection between the *wo faces in the long tunnel, and that the lines and levels are correct.

Two more fires occurred last Tuesday in Christchurch. A. stable at Woolstou belonging to Selwyn Davies, carrier, was burned down on Thursday afternoon. It was insured for £SO in the Globe office. A two-roomed cottage near the East Bolt was destroyed at 8 p.m. It was owned and occupied by Patrick Toban, gardener, and was insured for £SO iu the New Zealand office by the mortgagee. An information has been laid againat Frederick Fulton, of Soudan fame, for having on the Bth inst., at Kensington, Dunedin, fired a pistol loaded with powder and divers leaden balls at and against one Michael Hayes, with intent to murder him.

There Is a possibility of the proposed volunteer encampment at Easter falling through, as no tents can be procured from, the Defence Department. I