TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1347, 30 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

A passenger by the Foxton coach, who got in at Foxton on Thursday, was found dead when the coach arrived in Wellington. From papers found, it is surmised that the deceased is John Wilding, who hod been engaged as overseer on the Wellington-Mnaawatu railway. He has a daughter who is schoolmistress in Marlon, and it is believed that he has friends in Oamaru. Wilding was on his way to the Wellington Hospital. Anxiety is felt for the safety of the barque Lochnagar, which left Gisborne 142 days ago for London, laden with wool. Nothing has been heard of her since her departure. She had only one passenger, Mr Ralph Arthur. Andrew Dalsiel, one of the original Otago settlers, died on Thursday, aged 80. At the Dunedin City Police Court on Friday, Sydney Knight was sentenced to two months’ hard labor for assaulting a Chinaman. The evidence disclosed a shocking state of immorality, the prisoner obliging his wife to live with the Chinese, Deis well connected in England, and is understood to be remittance man. His children appeared in Court the previous day charged with theft. While the Hon. Mr Ballance was on the West Coast recently, the natives complained of the high percentage charged by the Public Trustee for collecting rents, The Native Minister has brought the matter before the Colonial Treasurer, who has agreed to a considerable reduction being made in these charges. Colonel Haul tain will shortly proceed to Sydney, on behalf of New Zealand, to congratulate the New South Wales contingent on their return from the Soudan. Among the measures to be introduced during the session by Government are the Conservation of Forests Bill, a Bill to Consolidate the Trustees Act, and one dealing with the fisheries question. Two of the Wellington Volunteers who fired their rifles in the train on Monday have been placed under arrest by order of the Adjutant, as they are non-com-missioned officers. The Qreymouth Hospital Committee having received no replies to telegrams sent to Government asking for funds to carry on the institution till the end of the financial year, June 30th, resigned in a body on Wednesday evening. A meeting of subscribers to accept their resignation is called for Wednesday night. The Grey district subscribes the largest amount of voluntary funds to the Hospitals of any district in New Zealand.

Th® Hokitika 3as Company lias juat declared a dividend of 8a per share ; making a total for the year of 33 per cent.

Th® Portmanteau Factory, King street, Christchurch, occupied by .Benjamin Kett, was burnt down on Wednesday morning. The furniture was insured in the South British office for £2OO. The building was insured in the Colonial office for £IOO.

At the annual meeting of the Forbury Park Land Company, Otago, a dividend of 4 per cent, and a bonus of £2 10s was declared, and £483 carried forward. Inspector Petrie has drawn the attention of the Otago Education Board to the accounts of the peripatetic system of teaching science, as carried out by the Birmingham School Board. He points out that though an elaborate programme of elementary science lessons are prescribed they have proved anything but a success, and suggests that the Board should follow the example of Birmingham and establish the peripatetic system for Dunedin and suburbs, and it would gradually extend throughout the country. The first cost at Birmingham was £IOOO, and the year’s expenses £SOO, and Mr Petrie thinks £6OO a year would keep an establishment in working order here. An inquest was held at Dunedin on Thursday on a five-year-old child, who was supposed to have died through negligence of the parents, but the medical evidence disclosed nothing beyond the fact of the child having been very weak and suffering from wasting disease. The jury considered the parents were deserving of great censure for noc procuring medical attention.

Prossers Hotel at Opuoake was destroyed by fire on Thursday. The insurances are as follows ;—On the building, National Company, £500; New Zealand Company, £SOO ; Equitable, £250 ; United, £250, On the stock and furniture, Victoria Company £6OO. The Home correspondent of the Auckland Herald states that shortly after the Bailing of the Kaikoura from London, it was discovered that a tradesman of Oamuridge had eloped with a girl in her teens, and deserted a wife and eleven children. He was recognised on board by a sailor and a passenger, who communicated with the wife’s friends. The guilty pair are supposed to have landed at Auckland, and justice is now on their trail,

The Government were in Cabinet the whole of Thursday afternoon. Most of the principal measures to be presented to Parliament by Ministers are now complete.

Marriott Sheard, a coal-miner, was killed instantaneously in the Brunner coalmine on Thursday evening, while working in that part of the mine where the banquet was held when the Premier visited there. He was 30 years of age, and leaves a widow and seven children.

The railway works,'' bow in progress in Otago, are estimated to cost £200,000. Alter considering the determination of the Postmaster-General that the mails by the direct steamers should leave Lyttelton every fourth Sunday, the Lyttelton Harbor Board has resolved that unless under special circumstances'of emergency, neither the Harbor Board’s pilot, staff, nor the steam-tug will be made available to take steamers out on Sundays. The Board also resolved to support the action taken by other Harbor Boards to have an alteration made in the Harbors Act so that the Government should be required to pay wharfage on material imported by thent. On Wednesday afternoon the Detective made a raid on a tobacconist s shop in Willis street, Wellington, and seized a number of articles which they allege were being used on the principle of a totahsator. It is stated that the investments were on the Grand National Steeplechase and Hurdle Race at Christchurch. Among the articles seized were two large sheets of card-board, on which were names of the race and the horses engaged in it, whilst under the name of the racehorse was the number of investors on that particular horse, the total number of investors on each race being at the top of the sheet. Indianbbsr stamps a number of tickets bearing horses’ names and about £SO in cheques and notes were also taken possession of. The names of all persons in in the shop were taken, and it is understood the police will lay an information under the Gaming and Lotteries Act against Mr Mandell, who occupies the premises.