TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1373, 1 August 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

it is understood that no formal address will be delivered by the'Governor on the opening of the Exhibition, but that Sir Julius Vogel will deliver an address, and request His Excellency to declare the Exhibition open. Charges of selling “Rough on Rats” against Gordon, a chemist, the box not being labelled “ poison ” or the address of the vendor on it, and against George Meo, chemist, for not entering the name of a similar compound in the sale of poisons book, were heard at the Resideiil Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Wednesday. The cases arose out of the re-, cent fatal poisoning cases. Both were remanded till Saturday, At an inquest on a lunatic, who died at Wellington on Tuesday, the medical evidence showed that the deceased, though kept in the Asylum for fi years, was a more fit subject for an Hos pital than an Asylum, and was one that should never have been admitted. L was only recently the man had become insane. lu the Bankruptcy Court, Auckland, Judge Gillies made an order calling upon 0. E. Madden, solicitor, to show cause why he should not bo attached for failing failing to perforin certain legal duties for which he had been paid £ll by a bankrupt named John Hill. A fire broke out in Richards’ drapery establishment, George Street, Dunedin, on Thursday evening, but it was got under before much damage was done. Some damage, however, was done by water. Eight offices are interested in the insurance. The Government have received a letter from’ General Stewart by the San Francisco mail, stating that the Nordenfoidi guns ordered by the colony are in a forward state, and are of a superior class. It is expected they will be shipped to ttu colony shortly. The Government have also received information that the ton guns for the colony are much stronger than the same class sent to Australia. They are further notified that a large quantity of ammunition and other wai material ordered by the colony has been shipped. A young man, the ringleader of some larrikins who assaulted an old Chinaman at Duuediu, was on Thursday fined equal to £3 10s. A witness for the defence staled ho had struck the Chinaman “ just for the fun of the thing.”

At the Lyttelton Harbor Board meet ing on Thursday, a resolution in favor of the East and West Coast Railway being immediately constructed, was carried unanimously. At the same meeting a statement of the Harbor Board’s accounts for the past six months showed there Lad been a decrease in the receipts of £1798, as compared with the corresponding period of last year.—No wonder the Board want a flutter.