TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1348, 2 June 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The racehorse Director, who is first favorite for the Auckland Steeplechase, returned to Hastings on Saturday, and is reported an unlikely starter. Major Caiitley will hand over charge of the defence works to Major Badham on the 10th inst., and will shortly afterwards proceed Home. Colonel Whitmore left Wellington for the south on defence business yesterday afternoon. In consequence of the pacific nature of the cables from Home in connection with the RusaoAfghan difficulty, the expenditure on defences will be largely reduced, A 6-roomed house in Union street, Dunedin, occupied by A, Maggitt and owned by A. J. C. Baber, was burned down yesterday morning. The furniture was insured in the Victoria Office for £l5O, and the building in the Norwich Union f or £350. Some clothes which had been placed before the fire to dry ignited. At the inquest on Stanley, who fell through the skylight at the City Hotel, Dunedin, on Friday, a verdict of “Accidental Death ” was returned, with a recommendation that a clause ho inserted in the City Building Regulations that iron bars, at sufficient distance, be placed in skylights of buildings to prevent anyone from falling through. Steps are being taken to canvass Auckland re establishing a Company with a suggested capital of £60,000 to work Lamonfe’s patent for gold saving. The sum available for distribution in Waring - Taylor’s bankrupt estate is £14,000, principally derived from the sale of the stock-in-trade. The creditors will receive about 3s io the £.

The local woollen Company are about to commence erecting their factory buildings. The Loan Agents telegraph that the new loan is quoted at a two per cent, premium. The 8.9. Janet Nicoll anived at Welington at half-past six on Saturday morning from Raratonga, with a cargo of fruit, after a very stormy passage. She was hove-lo for seventeen hours. She left on Sunday evening for Lyttelton and Dunedin, and begins her contract service to the South Sea Islands on Thursday next, June 4th, from Dunedin. Thomas Hough, formerly a timekeeper on the Lyttelton railway, and nine other employees, are charged with defrauding Government by means of Hough giving the others credit for doing work nhicb they never performed. The exact amount of the defalcations is not known, but it is believed to be some hundreds. He was arrested in Wellington. Mr John Aitken, a settler at Outran (Otago), was found dead on his farm on Saturday morning. His death is believed to "have been accidental. Mr D. R, Hay, of Dunedin, has accepted a challenge from the Canterbury Chess Club to play a chess match by telegraph, between teams of eight or ten a-side.