TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1318, 21 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A Napier insolvent having drawn the first horse in Jacob Faithful’s consultation, now pays his creditors in full. A Gazette extraordinary was issued on Wednesday afternoon, containing a proclamation further proroguing Parliament from March 19th to April 28th. About two thousand natives were present at the Parihaka meeting on Wednesday, but there was no specifying during the day, Te Whiti declining to give an address on account of Europeans being present. A great feast took place and the waiters wero in livery. A number of Waikato natives were present, and a private korero took place in the evening. The Maoris have not yet taken possession of the A.C. quarters at Parihaka. At the Supreme Court,"Wanganui, on Wednesday Robert Lawless, who pleaded guilty to stealing from a dwelling was sentenced to 12 months. The Bank or Australia’s case is postponed till Tuesday, On Thursday R, W, L. Coles, for horse-stealing, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labor; A. B. Campbell, watch-stealing, to 12 months, and R. Wilson, false pretences, to 6 months. The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce on Thursday carried a resolution urging the appointment of shorthand repoiters in Courts, They also adopted a petition to Parliament urging the appointment of a Committee to consider the currency and banking question.

The steamer Elderslie arrived at Oatnaru on Wednesday from London, after a passage of 56 days. During a storm a sea broke aboard and washed a cabin-boy overboard.

On Wednesday, at Oamaru, the KuraIsika Estate, comprising 5500 acres ot freehold, 20,000 of leasehold, and 17,000 sheep, was sold by auction by Mr Maude, to Mr Nichols, of Dunedin, for £20,000. The body of a man baa been found on the banks of the Taieri River, at Nenthorn. It is believed to be that of Joseph Ivens, who was drowned in the Lee Stream a short time ago. It has been resolved to form a company with a capital of £50,000 to build a bridge across the Upper Harbor from Dunedin to Waverley. At the annual meeting in Dunedin of the New Zealand Drug Company, a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent per annum was agreed to, and £8398 18s 8d carried forward. It was resolved to open a branch of the business in Sydney, from which quarter keen competition has recently sprung up. After a lengthy discussion, the Napier Education Board have decided to accept an extra bnilding grant of £IOOO and to remain in office until the Government formulatejtheir proposals at next session of Parliament. A section of the Board was for resigning, but (he maiority agreed with Mr Ormond that to throw the management of Education in this district into the hands of the Government would result in serious injury. Yolbracht, Managing Director of Yolbrachl’s New Zealand Tobacco Company, is now in Napier inspecting the growing crops and giving instructions for saving them. He declares that Hawkes Bay is is a second Connecticut in soil and climate, and that ho never saw purer leaf or larger crops in the States. Messrs Ormond, Tannen, Russell, and others have determined to put large areas under tobacco. An experimental crop of a few acres on Mr Ormond’s estate has yielded 2000 lbs. of very fine Connecticut leaf, an altogether exceptional crop. A deputation waited on Sir Julius Yogel in Christchurch on Thursday to urge the necessity for the establishment of special asylums for inebriates. Sir Julius said that at present the Government could not found any more charitable institutions, but no doubt the new Charitable Aid Act would make provision for giving power to local authorities to establish the institutions referred to.