TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1324, 7 April 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Sydney Taiwhanga says the object of his projected new mission to England which is now on the tapis, is (1) to obtain a revision of the Act of Confiscation; (2), to obtain power to deal with the land as they please; (3) to assist Mr Kusden , against Mr Bryce; (4) to gain compensa-" tion for the imprisonment of Te Whiti; (5), to raise the question of Native rightunder the Treaty of Waitangi to the foreshore of Waimatata and other likely places. Up- to the end of March two million four hundred and eighty thousand consolidated debentures of New Zealand were bought in for conversion under the terms offered (which have previously been* described). The option to convert closes at the end of April. It is stated that Colonel Roberts, of the Armed Constabulary force, is to be placed iu charge of the Wellington district. I

Tho Westland County Council has oflered to abolish the toll gate at Otira Gorge on receipt of £IOOO compensation. The Hon. Colonel Brett has been elected commander of the Canterbury reserve corps which now numbers over 100, mostly men of good position. Mr C. C. Bowen, Chairman of the West Coast Railway Committee, has received a telegram from the delegates in London stating that the railway is in hand with people of influential character, and its prospects are hopeful, but delay is being occasioned by the state of affairs with Russia.

Daniel Buckley, 45 years of age, died at Christchurch on Thursday from injuries received through falling off the wharf on the previous Friday, as he was endeavouring to board the Hauroto in which he had taken passage for Sydney. George Barker, with several aliases, an old offender, was committed for trial at Christchurch on Thursday for entering the shop of Glen, fishmonger, and brutally assaulting Glan's daughter, 13 years old, and robbing the till. A meeting of Maori electors was held at Wakatipu on April Ist to select a candidate to represent them in place of Taiaroo, called* to the Upper House. The choice fell on Tami Parata (Mr Thomas Pratt), who is well known throughout the South Island, and will have the support of Taiaroa and Topi, the latter being the leading chief in South, land.

A tourist from England has died at Lake Wakatipu from concussion of the brain, tbe result of a fall while descending Ben Lomond. No less than 72 tradesmen from various goldfiehis districts appeared before the Clyde R.M. Court ona day lately on charges of having short weights .in then possession. They were all fined but one. By a fire at Lumsden on Thursday damage to the amount of £3OOO was done and a number of people narrowly escaped being burned to death. The fire is supposed to have been caused by two-girls leaving a lighted candle on their toilet table after returning from a dance at 2 a.m. Dore's Waimea Hotel (where the fire originated), McLeod's (saddler), Mrs Eraser's dwelling house, the Waimea stables, Crosbie's Kailway Hotel, Burnett's butcher's shop, and an unoccupied hut were destroyed. Serious doubts are entertained as to the safety of the Eastern Extension Cable Company's cable-repairing steamer Magnetic. The vessel left Portland, England, on the 10th March, and was visiting Australia to relieve the cable steamer Agnes, but she was to call at various stations on the way out, and no tidings having been heard; of her has given rise to some anxiety. Almost at .the time the Magnetic sailed from Portland severe gales were experienced on the English coast, and it is thought that she has encountered one of these and foundered. Mr Shapley, who is well known in New Zealand as formerly having charge of the New Zealand cable station, Wakapuaka, and recently of La Perouse New South Wales, was a passenger by the Magnetic. The Magnetic is a larger vessel than the Agnes. Over 3000 tons of coal were sent away from Greymouth last week. • A thousand tons were loaded on Saturday. A third shift of men will shortly be put on in the Brunner mine. The wharf is still crowded with steamers and sailing vessels. Richard Hawker, a cabman, was committed for trial at Christchurch on Friday, for attempting to burn down his house at Ashbourn.

The Australian Mutual Provident Society have purchased for £25,000 Wertheim's Comer in Princess and Dowling streets, Dunedin. The body found on the banks of the Ta : eri river some weeks ae;o has been idenlifiedas that of Edward Forrester, a railway navvy. He had spoken and acted like one insane before he went missing.

Sir Julius Vogel in a letter to the deputy-Chairman of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce; disclaims any intention of being discourteous to the deputation •re defence, and expresses regret for such an idea giining ground.

A fund is being raised iu Christchurch for tho purpose of making experiments in the local manufacture of coment.

... Robert Day, awaiting trial in Christchurch on a charge of forging a bill for £IOOO, is believed to have decamped. Mr Ackerman, of the Public Works Department, commenced od Wednesday to lay off the road leading from the entrance to the North Head reserve to the site of tho batteries proposed to be erected on the promontory, Auckland. Fifty navvies were put on on Thursday, and a large concrete magazine is to be erected. The road is to be completed in ten days. It is understood that negotiations are proceeding with a view to a sculling match between Hearn of Wellington and Braithwaite of Wanganui. The proposal is to row a three mile race, the champion conceding half a minute.

The statement that a Life Insurance Company had issued a policy on Te Whiti's life is incorrect.

The Hon. Mr Ballanco, accompanied by Mr McKerrow, Surveyor-Genaral, will probably leave Wellington for tho South about t tho middle of this week. They will be absent about three weeks, and will inspect the Gown Lands,. pickiiag out suitable blocks for special settlements.

Dr. H. O. Fosse was found dead in his bed at Coker's Hotel, Christchurch, on Wednesday afternoon. The cause of d3ath is supposed to be apoplexy. Mr J. W. Salmcnd, M.A., son of Professor Salmond, who won the Gilchrist scholarship and went Home to study law in London, has passed the first section of L.L.B. degree of the London University with first-class honors, thereby winning the law scholarship of £4O, tenable for two years. 'There were between 70 and 80 competitors. A tenant in Dunedin, whoso landlord put the bailiff in for rent, swore an information against him for being illegally on premises, and had him arrested. The bailiff of course got off.

ARRIVAL OF THE SAJN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The s.B. Zsalandia with the San Francisco mail arrived at Auckland on Saturday night. The following is a summary of her intelligence, dates from Europe being to March 14th :- The Gordon Memorial, it is decided, will take the form of a great hospital and sanatorium, to be erected at Port Said, to be open to people of all nations.

Sir James Hanmer in rendering his decision in the Earl of Durham's suit for divorce declared the respondent loved another, and censured the family for arranging the marriage with his Lordship. The English Government has invested £20,000 for the benefit of General Gordon's family. A strike of. 65,000 English miners against a reduction of wages is threatened. Tho famous cathedral in Glasgow, which lacks but two years of beinc seven centuries old, was on fire on March Bth, and for a time there was much excitement. Tho flames were, however, extinguished with but little damage. The breach of promise suit, Lady. Claude St. Nott agauist Captain Spiler, of the Lifo Guards, has been settled for £33,000. A despatch from London says the North Pacific and Australian fleets will be reinforoed as tho result of a conference with the Agdltg-General of the colonies at the War Office. The Government will roly upon receiving contingents from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. London society was exercised on March 6th over the suicide of a young Englishman who was recently married, and who had lost £55,000 gambling at Monaco. The ex-Empress Eugenie and the Duke de Bassano were thrown out of a carriage while riding at Farnborougb, and were badly injured. A manifesto was issued by dynamiters apsombled in Paris, on March stb, addressed to the Prince of Wales, pledging him safety during his visit to Ireland, because he is a Freemason. The document is signed "Michael Flatitiery." One part of it says : " Go and see for yourself what the Irish people have suffered. We shall thank you, although you are the residuary legatee of centuries of usurpation and attempted extermination." A tremendous fight occurred between the soldiers and civilians.at Waterford on Marcn 7tb. A detachment of the Royal Irish regiment, numbering 100 men, waiting to embark for Portsmouth, en route to India, were allowed by their officers to break ranks and enjoy themselves. They did so by getting drunk and insulting the residents and kissing-all the women they met on the streets. The police, aided by the citizens, attacked the soldiers, who beat off the charge with their fiats and the buckles of theif belts, which they used like slingshot. Many were seriously wounded. A gang of rowdie? took part with tho soldiers against the police, and the latter \\<>v. stoned, kicked and clubbed until they were forced to take refuge in the Customhouse. Lord Moiiteagle is having a serious quarrel with the tenants on his estate near Shanagolden, County of Limerick. The' tenants decline to pay rent in future unless, considering tho hard times, areasouable abatement be made. Lord Monteagle stubbornly refuses all reductions, andjwholesale evictions have followed.

The Lord Mayor of Dubliu was hissed and groaned at the railway station in that city. Two dynamite cartridges were exploded in a Protestant church in Glendgivin, near Stranolar, in Donegal, on March 3rd, and several square feet of masonry were destroyed. Several more cartridges were found in the vicinity.