TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1337, 7 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A laborer named Sloan attempted suicide near Dunedin on Tuesday. The Plate Glass Insurance Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent for the year, after wiping off all preliminary expenses. The Premier left- Wellington fur Dunedin on Monday afternoon on private business and will, it is understood, be absent three or four days. An inspection of the salmon ova in the hatching boxes on Tuesday morning showed that they were all in the same excellent condition as when landed. Government have decided that in future constables joining the A.C. force shall be paid only 5s per day, being a redaction of Is on that paid now. The 8.8, Macgregor was run into by the a.s. Wellington near Auckland on Tuesday and sank shortly afterwards. The Wellington was seriously damaged, No lives were lost. John Wilson alias Cobon convicted and sentenced at B'enheim oa a charge of rape, received his first whipping at Wellington on Monday morning. The flogging was 25 lashes, and very severe. A decree absolute was granted at Blenheim on Monday in the divorce suit of Rush r. Rush and Parker, in which a rule nisi was made last sittings. There was no opposition. The petitioner is a laborer residing near Blenheim. An Okarito settler named Ernest Buby was drowned on 28th inst. whilst returning from Gillespie’s Beach. He was washed down Stony Creek to the sea. The body was found, hut it was nearly all eaten by fishes. On Sunday morning Mrs Patenton wife of W. J. Patenton, storekeeper at Wakefield, Nelson, cut her throat with a razor so severely that her life is despaired of. Recently she returned from the Asylum for Inebriates at Christchurch. Mr John Barratt, hotelkeeper Christchurch on behalf of a number of Irishmen, applied to the City Council on Monday night for permission to erect a statue to Daniel O’Connell. The request was refused. The Colonial Secretary has wired to the health authorities to report on the quarantine station at Port Chalmers and have a place prepared to receive passengers by the Arawa, Every precaution is to be taken to prevent smallpox spreading. The Orepuki railway (Southland) was opened on Tuesday. It taps a district rich in gold and minerals hitherto inaccessible except on horseback and on foot- The line forms the extreme end of the railways. Mr Daniel the exmember for the district was presented with a purse of soverigns.

A number of firemen of the steamer Coptic, who refused to go to sea as their destination was not known, were brought before the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Monday, and were sentenced to ten weeks* iraprisoment, and ordered to forfeit two days* pay and defray a portion of the costs. The Coptic succeeded in obtaining the necessary fireman at the colonial rate of wsges, and sailed at 7.45 p.m. o.n Monday, but anchored in Worser Bay at 9.15, owing to a heavy southerly gale. A boat containing four men is missing at Auckland Boatman Ned Branville’ and naxvies Timothy Daile, Patrick Hickey, and N. Neilson left the defence works on Monday afternoon in an open boat to go to the-dread of Evans’ Bay for a cargo of sand : . They have not since been heard of. Search parties have gone out but they have been unsuccessful. It is believed that (he boat was swamped on returning, as its oars have been found on Petone beach.

It is understood that a Moiling match is likely to come off between Hearn, the champion, and Boniface, a resident of Riverton. The latter has challenged JHearn to row n throe-mile race at Riverton for £IOO a side, the champion to concede a start of one miute, Hearn has replied that be is perfectly willing to meet Boniface, but he is not prepared to make a greater concession than half a minute. The workmen employed in three of the boot factories Christchurch went out on strike on Tinsday. The local bootmakers’ Society desired to raise the tariff of wages in the larger factories to a par with that in force in some of (he smaller factories. Messrs Light hind Allen and Co., Sticking Bros., and O’Brien and Co. are the firms at present concerned, The demand is for an increase of wages, and it is not likely the employers will give way,

On Monday at a.m. at. Mafton Mr McDowell's draper’s shop the shop of Mr Gardener, barber and tobacconist, and p large billiard room belonging to Mr Dyer were burnt to ashes ; nothing was saved. It originated in McDowell’s premises. Tin l 'premises were insured for -€3OO. McDowell’s was insured for £3 250 and estimates his loss above that at £IOOO. The others were uninsured. A mau named Walter H. Lennox Maxwell, alias Theodore Cecil Danquier, variously described as a “ doctor” or ‘‘ officer” in the French army, ; was arrested on the arrival of the mail steamer on a charge of the murder of Charles E. Pareller, of St. Louis, Missouri. The accused slated that the affair was a mistake, and he could explain it in the proper quarter. Nothing was known of the murder before the steamer left. The accused is about thirty years old, and of gentlemanly appearance. He and the murdered man were both British subjects.