TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1339, 12 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

The Auckland Freeing Company started freezing sheep yesterday, to load the Aorangi in June. Three hundred slieep per day will be frozen. Goodson's fancy goods warehouse in Auckland was burglariously entered last Sunday night, the robbers using skeleton keys. £SOO worth of property was stolen. Thomas Macfarlane died in the Auckland hospital on Sunday from injuries sustained through being knocked down by a train at the Auckland railway station on Tuesday last, He was 74 years of age, had been 25 years in the colony, and represented the Northern division in Parliament. He was a member of the firm of Henderson and Macfarlane till 1870,

and subsequently Trustee in Bankruptcy and curator of Intestate Estates.

The settlers on the West Coast are beginning to feel uneasy at the conduct of the natives at Parilmka. The Warea correspondent of the N.Z. Herald writes;— " Every Maori one meets still adverts to the story that the land in to be given back in June. About 5,000 Moaris are stated to be coming to Purihaka to assist at the meeting. Those who have been longest in the district say they have not seen the natives so sullen for many years, and fear the result of next month."

The Bryce v. Rusden Commission sat at Wanganni yesterday morning formally. The Hods, Tole and Buckley are Commissioners. Mr Button of Auckland appears for Mr Bryce, and Messrs Izard (Wellington) and Birnicoat (Waoganui for Mrßufden. Tho hearing of evidence commences on Tuesday (to-day), but will not be open to the Press. ulaxwell alias Banquire, for the St. Louis murder was further romanded at Auckland, till Monday. Since the arrest of the prisoner the United States Consul at Auckland telegraphed to the polios authorities in America, and received a reply directing him to hold the prisoner at all hazards, as the evidence of the murder was most conclusive. Fears are entertained for the safety of the Auckland cutter South Carolina which left for Port Charles on Tuesday.

Major Cautley, whose services were only allowed to the Colonial Goverment for a period of 12 months by Jthe; British Government, and whose time has now expired, will be succeeded by Captain Badham, who arrived recently. The Minister of Defence has issued an order that the New Zealand forces are to be clothed in blue cloth ; any variations in facings, if desired, will be. allowed. Volunteers will be permitted to chose their own colors. All the Hon. W. Robinson's horses, with the solitary exception of a colt called Wizard, were embarked on the Wakatipu for Sydney on Friday. The Canterbury Chess Club have decided to challenge the Otago Club to a match by telegraph. In the cuss Palmer v. Mcintosh, in which the plaintiff claimed £IOO damagos for trespass and the conversion of seven sheep, Judge Ward gave a verdict for one farthing the District Court, Christchurcb, on Friday. The Mayor of Auckland (Mr W. Waddell) has received a magnificent present from Captain Ardigi of the Japanese corvette Tsukuba, in recognition of the kindness shown to the officers and crew on his vessel's M'sit to Auckland. The Mayor has also received a present for His Excellency the Governor, which he will forward at the earliest opportunity to Wellington. The second election of theTakapuna Licensing Committee, Auckland, resulted in the Good Templar candidates being again returned. There was immense excitement, and it proved the hardest temperance contest that ever took place in Auckland. The Auckland Board of Education have resolved to give their School Inspector six months' salary in lieu of notice. A melancholy boating accident occurred at the entrance to the Thames river on Saturday. It appears that about noon four men, named W. Rae senior, W. Rae junior, A. S. Colquhoun and John James, started from Tararu for the Peaks in an open boat, during a severe north-westerly gale. The boat was not seen to capsize, but later in tht day the master of the river steamer reported having observed wreckage at tho mouth of the Thames river. The boat was found bottom upwards in the mud channel on Sunday morning, but there was no sign of the occupants, and no hopes are entertained for their survival. The whole community is astir, taking part in the search for tho bodies. The three elder men wero married, and leave families unprovided for. Within the last few days the Defence Office has received no less than 78 offers from new Volunteer Corps offering their services.

Instructions have been received from some of the English legatees under the wili of the la'e Mr Jas. May, to institute proceedings against Mrs Rhodes for recovery of Bank shares transferred to her by Waring Taylor in settlement of an amount appropriated by him from the Rhodes' estate while acting as trustee. The value of the shares transferred was about £12,000. The action will come before the Supreme Court shortly. About 7 o'clock on Friday evening Stephen Walsh, storekeeper, Hatter's Terrace, Nelson Creek, West Coast, waß drowned while trying to : ford Nelson Creek on horseback. The Cr«ek was flooded at the time. His body was found on Saturday morning about 25 chains below the ford he tried to cross. The horse was found on the same side of the Creek he went in at. Walsh was drowned almost in sight of his own home. He leaves a widow and child, ~

At a caucus of Otago ftl.H.ft's on Saturday, resolutions were passed demanding that the Goverment should proceed with the construction of the Otago Central Line to the full extent of last year's appropriation (of which £35,0Q0,it appears, are yet not spent), notwithstanding that members of the Government telegraphed that any further expenditure at present would be a waste of money. . A man named Werrick was drowned at Greymouth at about midnight; on Friday, falling over the wharf: while loading som» trucks. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned; and a rider added to the effect that the wharf was insufficiently lighted and therefore dangerous to the men engaged in the work.