TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1374, 4 August 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Arthur Cox died at the Auckland Hospital on Monday, from injuries caused by a kick in the loins sustained while playing football at Tekopuru. The blow caused so little immediate inconvenience that Cox resumed play. The injuries, however, produced gangenre of the bowels, which resulted fatally. Cox was 26 years of age. At the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday morning an action against the Government, in respect of land taken for a battery site, was adjourned for a week, pending receipt of the lately-passed Public Works Amendment Act. Judge Gillies said the theory of course was that upon the Act passing at Wellington it instantly passed also in all judicial minds upon the Bench. Government, however, had no method of enabling judicial minds to make themselves specially conversant with the laws which were passed. A sample of Coromandel lead will bo sent to Spain and Wales to be tested. A row occurred about midnight on Saturday at Wellington between sailors belonging to the steamer Rimutaka, the barque Ganges, and some shore hands, during which a Lascar, belonging to the Ganges, received a blow on the head with a broomstick, which rendered him unconscious for some hours. He was taken to the hospital, where it was found he had sprained his shoulder, and had a nasty wound on his head. Two shore hands hare been arrested; the others went away by the Rimutaka. The men will be tried on Wednesday. S. S. Hutchison was brought up at the Police Court, Dunedin, yesterday, on a charge of having attempted to abscond from bail. He was committed to gaol. A ploughman, employed by Charles Dean at Etal Creek, (Southland), got into his master’s bedroom by the window, on Thursday evening, and severely assaulted him and his wife by striking them on the head with a daw hammer. The assault was the result of a quarrel, it is alleged. Several attempts were made during last week to injure the Mornington cabl# tram (Dunedin,) apparently by larrikins. The screws were taken out of the pulleys, stones were jammed in the gripper points, and obstructions placed ou the line, which might have caused a serious accident if they had not been discovered. The Company are offering a reward.' At a conference of North Canterbury Rifle Clubs in Christchurch on Saturday, it was decided to request Government to enrol members of the Clubs for defence purposes on similar terms as in Victoria. It was also resolved to form a Rifle Association for Canterbury. In the case against Gordon, a Wellington chemist, for selling “ Rough on Rats,” without a poison label, a fine of one shilling and costa was inflicied. A similar fine was imposed oo Mee for having sold the same compound without registering it. An analysis of a box of it showed that it consisted of mercantile arsenic.