TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1369, 23 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the inquest on Dolan, who was drowned at the mouth of the Rakaia while sledgiug wood, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider censuring the authorities for not holding an inquest till three days after the body had been found, or seven days after Dolan's death. The Mayor of Dunedin, Mr Scoular, refused to proclaim a halt holiday for the Interprovincial Football match on Tuesday because, he said, football was a brutal game. Nevertheless, the holiday was pretty generally observed. The weather was simply glorious. Two 45 minutes spells were played. Over 5,000 persons were present. Ruse umpired for Otago, and James for Wellington. Galbraith acted as referee. Play began at 3.10., Murray winning the toss, Otago took the South end, Webb kicking off. The advantage was with Otago during the first half hour. Cooper retired temporarily. An English football team (the Loudon Rovers) propose to visit New Zealand and Australia next year. The Auckland Supreme Court refused a new trial in the case of North v. Tramway Co. in which the jury awarded £BOO damages for loss of a foot. The application was made on the ground that the damages were excessive. The Napier Chamber of Commerce on Monday passed a motion calling the attention of the Government to the large extent of native lands available for settlement iu the Seventy-mile Bush, and requesting Parliament to legislate in the direction of facilitating settlement. Mr Ballance’s native lands policy is generally condemned on the ground that it would effectually prevent native lands being either bought or leased. In the Bankruptcy Court, Wellington, on Monday, an application was made on behalf of the London City Missionary Society re juesting to be allowed to prove against the estate of W. Waring Taylor for a debt of £SOOO. The matter has been allowed to stand over pending the receipt of communication from Mr Jonas Arundell, one of the supervisors in the estate, and who is at present in Sydney. Thomas Lawson, alias Roberts, who, while handcuffed, escaped from the police by jumping off a train in motion, and evaded capture for three weeks, was charge I at the Police Court, Dunedin, on Monday* with stealing a watch The accused, who got a month for larceny of an overcoat in May last, asked the Magistrate to deal with the case summarily. He said he was drunk when he committed the offence. He was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment with hard labor. The contract for the formation and fencing of the Mount Somers contract of the upper Ashburton branch railway, including the construction of a bridge, was secured by H. McKenzie and Co., of Woodville, the amount being £5791 19s 4d,

At a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce on Monday, a resolution was passed averring that the San Francisco mail service had ceased to be of importance and urging that arrangements should be made for a direct fortnightly mail service. A return was laid on the table showing that in 1884 our imports from America were valued at £300,185 ; and our exports at £183,839. A young man named William Bowe, broke his leg near the ancle whilst wrestling in Hagley Park, Christchurch, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Foulis, Head Schoolmaster at the New Plymouth Central School and late Inspector at Wanganui, died, from the effects of a fall from his horse, shortly after seven o’clock on Tuesday morning. He died in great agony, and he was never thoroughly conscious since the acciden,t which occurred some weeks ago. Jenness, the Wellington jeweller, has presented a cheque for £6O to be divided among the members of the police force in Wellington and Lyttelton who traced and captured Allendale, the burglar. The Police Department has decided to draft detectives from Dunedin, Auckland, Christchurch, Timaru, and Napier, who will do duty in Wellington during the time the Exhibition is open. It is probable that a few uniform constables will also be sent from each of those places to Wellington for duty during the same time. The Nelson Chamber of Commerce favor the San Francisco Mail Service, provided America pays half of the subsidy. The statue to be erected in memory of the late William Sefton Moorhouse is on board the s.s. iluupehu, which is expected in Lyttelton on Thursday or Friday. A young mao named Edward Chapman was charged at the Dunedin Police Court on Tuesday by his father with attempted suicide, and remanded. He was only 20 years of age, and had attempted suicide with a penknife.