TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1371, 28 July 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A Bank clerk named Blundell, formerly resident at Auckland’ hut nowin Sydney, applies for » dissolution of marriage, on the ground of alleged adultery of his wife with a man named Hager, of Whangaroa. A new trial is to be applied for in the libel case Elliot v. Hancock (Auckland), on the ground of the damages being excessive and the verdict contrary to the evidence. A meeting of the cilizens in Auckland was held on Friday night, the Mayor presiding, to inaugurate a movement for a memorial in memory of the late Mr John Sheehan, M.H.U. A strong committee, representing all parts of the colony, and containing the names of many members of the Legislature, was appointed to consider the matter, and .Report to a future meeting as to what form the memorial should assume Already £550 have been collected for the Fire Brigade Intercolonial Competition at Napier, besides £BO in trophies. The first prizes in principal events range as high as £lls, with second and third prizes in proportion. It has been resolved by the Committee »o give £6O as a bonus to be divided amongst Australian teams, provided that not less than three teams compete. The prize money and trophies are expected to amount to nearly £VOO, or more than three times as much as was given last year in Dunedin, and more than double the sum given at the great intercolonial competition at Ballarat. An effort is to be made to get the Union S.S. Company to carry the visiting teams at reduced rates. Major Cautley arrived iu Lyttelton from Port Chalmers on Friday on a final lour of inspection io the defence works, lie goes on to Wellington and returns in time to catch the K.M.S Rimutaka, in which he takes passage to Loudon. William Henry Wakheam, a cordial manufacturer of Dock Street, Freeman’s Bay (Auckland), surrendered himself to the police for the attempted murder of his wife. She had been drinking, and demanded money, which he refused, and a squabble ensued, which ended iu her being found outside with a wound on the head from an axe. She is unconscious iud partially paralysed, and a fatal termination is feared. Wakeham says she assaulted him with the axe first, and in the struggle both fell down the back doorsteps, and thus she got wounded. Wakeham was formerly of Dunedin, and was more recently a warder over the natives at Mount Cook Gaol, Wellington. A St, Vincent de Paul Society has been formed in Auckland for the purpose of providing clothing and other necessities for the deserving poor or distressed persons, irrespective of religious beliefs. One of the prospectors of the Wanganui Gold Prospecting Mining Company has returned from the King Country, but as the Company are under a pledge of secrecy to the Government, the results are not obtainable. He returns this week to join his two mates, who are still out. A pedestrian match for £25 a side between Hunt, of Sydney, and Wynn Williams, of Sydney, look place in Wellington on Saturday. The distances were 440yds, 100yds ami 220yds, Hunt won the first and third events, in 57secs and 25secs. respectively. Williams won the second in lO^secs. The second instalment of the West Ocast Railway petition was sent to Wellington from Christchurch last Friday night. Nearly 7000 signatures have been obtained up to the present time. At a public meeting in Stanmore is was resolved to request all Canterbury Members to do their best to curry the proposal now before Parliament. A a meeting rf the West Coast Railway League on Saturday, the Committee presented a report strongly supporting the proposals before Parliament, stating that in its opinion the scheme present* such an immediate effectual agency as will probably not otherwise off*r for generations for attracting population and increasing the productive power of the capital and resources of the colony. Tiie report was unanimously adopted. Copies of it are to be sent to all the Members of Parliament.