TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1335, 2 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Alexander Angus, a miner of Greenstone, oh Tuesday fell off a sideling into the Blackwater Creek and was drowned. Coates, the contractor for the first section of the North Island Trunk Railway, signed his bonds on Wednesday, and the work commences next week.

The Auckland City School Committees protest against the frequent public school holidays and recommend the abolition of St. Patrick’s, St, George’s, and St, Andrew's Days as school holidays. For selling flounders less than 9 inches in length, two fisherman were on Thursday, at Christchurch, fined £1 each. This case was the first brought under tho new regulation published in the Gazette of April 2nd. The annual meeting of the Auckland Tobacco Company lapsed for the want of u quorum. The report states the profit on sales, though considerable, had bean more than eaten up by salaries and |commissions. Official intimation has been received from the Minister of Justice that the fines, amounting to £IOO, inflicted in the cases Timins v. Spardie, at Wanganui, for the defendant doing work at the Hospital, while a Borough Councillor, have been remitted. Mr Farr, Secretary to the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, who returned by the Kuikoura, brings about 100,000 healthy salmon ova, full of vitality. North Canterbury, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Wellington, Wairarapa, and Napier, are the districts which subscribed towards the expense, and among those ova will be distributed pro rata as early as can be arranged. In the Supreme Court, Wanganui, on Thursday the appeal case Fiides v. Teesdale was dismissed, as the proof of obitruction was insufficient, although his Honor Mr Justice Richmond expressed the opinion that meetings of the Army on Sunday afternoons might be a great nuisance. He thought they could be indicted for a nuisance. Information has been received that Alexander Fosythe Andenon, who was arrested in Wellington some month* ago and remanded to Liverpool, was taken before the Police Court at Liverpool on the lOlh of March, and charged with the embezzlement of large sums of money during the time he occupied the position of Master of the Brownlow Hill Workhouse. He admitted the offence, and wa* committed for trial, bail being refused. He was further charged with having left Great Britain with more than £2O in his possession after being adjudged a Bankrupt! This charge was also admitted and accused was again committed for trial, bail being also refused. The Board of the Goverment Life Insurance Association decided ati's meeting yesterday to proceed at onco with the preparation of the rolls to enable an election to take place for the establishment of Local Boards at Auckland, Christchurch and Duucdin. Thi-se rolls cannot be finished before the annual Meeting of the Association, which is to be on the last Wednesday in May, It was considered that if any of the policy-holders wished to offer any objections to the establishment of tho proposed Local Boards there would be ample time for them to give adequate notice of their intention by resolution to be proposed, and on that resolution a ducussion could take place and a vote taken at the genenl meeting.