TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1368, 21 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The tea industry is thriving in Fiji, and it is intended, after local requirements are satisfied, to supply some for export to New Zealand. The late reductions in the price of sugar have considerably affected the industry in Fiji, and one large firm has sustained great losses. Mary Bates, of Mangare, a Maori, aged 13, committed suicide at Wairaea. She did so because it appears her father would not let her marry a young Maori with whom she was cohabiting. At the inquest on Mrs Jacobson found dead in the bush at Napier, on Wednesday morning, a verdict of death from exposure was returned. On Friday night the Registrar of Deaths at Norsewood reported that the friends of the woman refused to allow her to be buried, having noticed signs of life since the inquest. The coroner wired instructions how to- act, and instructed Dr Marshall to proceed to Norsewood at once. On the doctor’s arrival he was met by hundreds of people, who were greatly excited. He found, however, on making tests, that the woman was really dead. Lawson, who escaped from custody of detective Ede while being conveyed as a prisoner to Invercargill, was captured at Shag Valley on Friday. Lawson, aliat Roberts, was wanted by the police at Dunedin some time back on a charge of vagrancy. He had been persistently tracked on his journey through the country and appears to have thought it dangerous to pass through Dunedin, as it is known he slept one night in an outhouse at Kensington. The Dunedin Women’s Temperance Union have purchased a building in which they intend holding meetings for the instruction of boys and girls, for giving temporary shelter for the homeless, and for a refuge for persons just out of prison until they get employment. By v fire at Southbridge on Friday morning the drapery shop of Mr J, Walker and the fruiterer’s shop of Mrs Aldwin were destroyed. The former shop was insured for £2OO and the latter for £IOO. The drapery valued at £IOOO was insured, but to what amount is not yet knows. Only about £3O worth was saved. i

Woodyear’s circus took £I2OO at Fiji, and proceeds to Tonga. By a fire at Rangiora on Friday morning the 4-roomed cottage of William Yerral was destroyed. It was insured for £IOO. In our telegrams from Sydney the other day it was stated that the expedition being organised by one Kerry ta prospect for gold in New Guinea had fallen through as it was believed that Kerry had purchased in Adelaide in February last the specimens shown by him and alleged to have been brought from New Guinea. His brother now writes from Waikato stating that Kerry showed him the specimens directly after his arrival from New Guinea on 31 at July, 1884, 9 months before the time he is alleged to have bought them in Adelaide. The Union Company have abandoned the South Sea Island trip, sufficient persona not coming forward for the smaller trip by the Penguin.