TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1361, 4 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Henry Morris, mate of Mansfield and party, shortly after proceeding to work at his claim at Larrikins near Kuinara, on Wednesday morning, was killed by a huge stone crushing him in the chest. He was a native of Durham, and his age was about 35. At Auckland a man named Webster was on Wednesday charged with rape on a girl at the Maimkau Hotel and remanded. The landlady of the Hotel was at the time of the offence in Auckland, and the house was left in charge of the servants. The Auckland Liberal Association have passed a resolution adverse to further immigration or increased Customs taxation, but in favour of a land tax. They also passed a resolution in favour of electoral rolls being the basis of voting for Licencing Committees,

At a meeting of the late Mr Sheehan’s and of Mr Kelly’s supporters atTauranga, it was agreed Mr Kelly be requested to proofed to Wellington at once, on the understanding that he will not bo opposed at the nomination, and that until he is able to take his seal he will do bis best outside the House for the benefit of T uuanga. The charge of arson against Louis Dare Cameron, at Auckland, was ultimately dismissed, the Magistrate stating there was no prima facie case. Colonel Reader, Under Secretary for Defence, has received six month’s leave of absence on the ground of ill-health. Major Gudgeon will act in Colonel Reader’s absence.

In consequence of the decision of the Licensing Bench, all publichousea in Wellington will close at 13 o’clock. The Native Land Court at Palmerston North oo Thursday awarded the Crown 42.000 acres of the celebrated Mangatainoto block in the Forty Miles Bush. The whole block is 50,000 acres, and the 42.000 acres awarded represent individual shares which have been bought hy Government. The block has been under negotiation since 1872, and is magnificent land for settlement.

The body of a man named John Scanlan, a ganger on the railway atMasterton, was found in the harbor at Wellington on Thursday morning. Two fixed deposit receipts on the Bank of New Zealand, Masterton, amounting to £155, together with two £5 notes and some silver, were found in his pockets.

Benjamin Thatcher, a boarding houses keeper at the railway works at Pukerau, on the Wellington-Mmawntu line, has been fined £2O and costs for sly grogselling. At Wellington a lumper named Thomas Cook fell down dead on Thursday night while working on the Aorangi. The cause of death was heart disease. He is supposed to have a wife in Port Chalmer The Christchurch Goldmining Company which has been formed for the purpose of mining the quartz reefs at Browning’s Pass, near the head of Wilberforce, a branch of the Rakaii river, has been successfully floated. The work of making a road from the flat to the Pass was commenced on Thursday. A charge of larceny presenting unusual circumstances was heard at the Dunedin Police Court on Thursday. Five sapphire stones, valued at £2O, were put in a box by a firm of jewellers and given to a boy to post. Some days afterwards the person who had put up the stones in a box had some stones submitted to him to value, which he recognised as those ho had put up for posting. The box had been picked up in a street channel by Andrew, the person charged with larceny, and he, thinking them of not much value, a? the box was wet and (he address not very distinct, left them lying about for a few days, when he showed them to his brother-in-law. He then took them to a lapidary to ascertain if they were anything but bits of glass, and he in turn consulted the person who had put up the atones. The Bench dismissed the case, but blamed Andrew for not posting the box or giving it up to the Police,