TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1356, 23 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

The body of Liardet has been found on the Eastern side of Lake Wairarapa.

A daßtardly outrage was attempted *t Blenheim on Saturday. A half-pound flask of powder was found in a clapperbellows at Nicholas' biacksmith'B forge. The flask was full, and holes were cut in it in such a way tbut the flames from the forge must have reached the powder. The flask was discovered on Nicholas going to light the fire. The poliee are on the track of the offender and hope to bring him to justice. The Aorangi arrived at Port Chalmers at 4.50 a.m., yesterday, and left again at 10.20 a.in. for Auckland. She brings in all 362 passengers. 2000 tons general cargo were transhipped outside tho heads, and 216 bags mails for the south, with 55 passengers. She left Plymouth on May 9th, Teneriffe on the 14th, Capetown on the 26th, and Hobart on 18th June. There were 4 deaths on board, 2 children from pneumonia, one adult from carbuocle and general debility, and pus seaman from fracture of the skull by falling from the main boom. Her steaming time was 41 days 10 hours ; mail time 43 days 10 hours. Hutcheson, of Caversham, who was arrested in Auckland on a charge of alleged fraudulent bankruptcy, intimates his intention to proceed for £IO,OOO damages for illegal arrest on arrival at Dunedin.

The New Zealand Sugar Company paid £4OOO duty on sugar at Auckland on Friday. At the adjourned inquest on Margaret O'Brien, at Auckland, Mr Pond, the analyst, deposed to finding five grains of arsenic acid in her stomach. A verdict was returned that the deceased was poisoned by arsenic, but whether by inadvertence or otherwise there was no evidence to show. She is stated to have an uncle in Oamaru and a brother in Dunedin. The detectives are still investigating the mystery. Courtenay, in whose employ the girl was, offers a reward of £<oo to any one who will clear up the mystery of her mysterious poisoning. At Nelson on Friday, John McLeary senteuced to six months' hard labor for stealing £42 from Mr Alexander Macgegor a commercial traveller. The prosecutor was lying down in his room, and was awakened by feeling a man's hand in his pocket. Some time ago the Aniseed Valley Copper Mining Company (Nelson) sent a parcel of ore to Hamburg. The returns which are now to hand, show that the ore yielded 30 per cent of copper, and of silver at the rate of six ounces to the ton.

Frederick Kansome Seaborne, an exQovernment insurance agent, was arrested at Nelson on Friday, on a charge ot embezzling some £2O belonging to the Association, and has been sent to Hokitiki, where the warrant was issued. A t Kaiapoi on Friday morning a child of Mr Harris, a carter, in the absence of the mother, who had left a bottle of iodine on the table, picked up the phial and swallowed the contents. Antidotes were used, bnt the child lies in a very precarious condition. Mr H. P. Blanchard,, surveyor, one of the Canterbury Pilgrims, who came out in the Randolf, died in Christchurch on Thursday. Mrß. Q. Wright, one of the candidates for Wakanui, addressed a large meeting at the Oddfellows' Hall, Ashburton, on Friday night, and received a vote of confidence. He avowed himself a Government supporter. A Dunedin High School pupil named Wilson had his collar bone broken on Fnday while playing football. Miss Mary Hughan, of Taieri Beach (Otago) seventeen years of age has received severe injuries by her clothes catching fire, and her recovery is doubtful.

A carpenter named John Turnbull had his skull fractured by a plank falling on his head from the second storey of the N. Z. Insurance Company's office now in course of erection at Auckland.

A quantity of sugar not on the vessel's inward manifest was discovered in the barque Altair's lazaretto by the Customs authorities at Auckland. The Captain has been charged with making a false declaration to H.M. Customs. One ot the crew had a dispute with the Captain, and turned informer.

The Wellington police have taken action against the proprietors of three places of business for employing females after hours on Saturday.

Negotiations between Government and the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, for taking over the line now in course of construction, have by consent been broken off. When negotiations were opened, it was nnderstood that if the shareholders withheld their consent this course would be adopted. Full particulars having been placed before the London shareholders, who hold about half the capital, they decided not to give their assent, and resolved that the capital be increased, and also to assist in every possible way the raising of money to complete the construction of the line.

The Protectionists of Qtago appear greatly pleased with the Budget. Tbey hold' a monster meeting on Friday to consider the proposals. At 2.30 on Sunday morning, three men, W. Mottier, A. F. Douglas and P. Douglas, stuck up a foreigner named George Trugeseo on the Madras-street railway footbridge, Christchurch, and, violently assaulting him, robbed him of a parcel containing a suit of clothes. Sergt. Carlyon arrested two of the men soon after, and afterwards got the third man. He recovered the property at Douglas's house.

The boxing march, for £2O a side, between R. Matthews and W. Hurcorabe's unknown man attracted a crowded house at the Theatre Royal Christchurch last Saturday night, and rasulted in an easy victory for Matthews, who knocked his opponent out of time in the second round. Matthews is considerably heavier than the unknown man. This man does not wish his name made public. At the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Thursday a man named Hardcrass was charged with stowing away on board the steamer Rotorua from Lyttelton, and sentenced to 14 days without the option of a fine. The sentence has caused a good deal of comment, and the Minister of Justice has ordered the release of the prisoner. The magistrate Mr Wardell, on Saturday morning admitted making a mistake, and acknowleged that he should have imposed a fine.