TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1379, 15 August 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Nelson Harnier, a son of Harnier, of Kaitaitai (Auckland), who went pigeon shooting, was missed, and was found dead with a gun-shot wound in his head. It i« believed the guu got caught in the scrub. Two children of Robert Henderson, of Mecury Bay Auckland, have been poisoned through eating tutu. One, aged five years, is dead, and the other, of three years, is in a precarious condition. The troubles which occurred ou board the Grassmere are coming before the Magistrate at Auckland, a number of the crew having laid informations against the Captain ou Monday. The captain has laid informations against 15 of the crew for conspiracy. A child named Mair died from poisoning at Otahuhu, Auckland, on Wednesday morning. Matches were found in the bed with the heads sucked off. A meeting of sheep farmers, convened by the Sheep Department, was held at Kaikoura on Wednesday, for the purpose of adopting measures to eradicate the scab. All the large sheep owners of the district were present; also Sheep Inspectors Foster and Clifton. The following resolutions were unanimously carried -“Thatinto interes's of to colony scab should be stamped out without further delay, and that in order speedily to arrive at that desired and most expedient end, those few holders of rough rugged mountainous runs whose flocks are infected should be compensated by the colony, and their sheep destroyed, as without this course is followed, two years or more will elapse before the object is reathed.” A young man named James O’Connor, arrested for passing valueless cheques, made an attempt to commit suicide while in the lock-up, Dunedin, by taking chlorodyne, but was noticed by the detective, who knocked the bottle out of his hand. A foreman at the Dunedin jam factory was on Thursday fined for branding a lad under him with a branding-iron. Ho held the iron under the other’s chin, and branded him rather severely, but, repenting, he offered the lad the branding-iron and suffered him to retaliate. The acceptance of Lieut.-001. Pearce’s resignation is gazetted. A thought-reader named Rice and his pianist, Oullimore, were thrown out of a buggy at Blenheim on Thursday. Rice was badly bruised. Charles Little and John Dignan alias Denon, have been committed for trial at Auckland for a series of larcenies, including a yacht, dingy, punt, etc. The latter prisoner is known as “ Ginger” and had been the terror of boat’s crews for a long time past, as he cruised up and down the Hauraki Gulf. Twenty-six of the unemployed met the Mayor of Napier on Thursday, asking for temporary employment. Twenty-three are laborers, 18 being married, and t having 74 children ; 12 of the number belong to other parts of the colony, chiefly from Christchurch. The residence of James O’Shea, merchant, Wellington, was totally destroyed by fire at midnight on Wednesday. The fire was caused by a curtain accidentally coming in contact vnth a lighted candle. There was no insurance on the building. At the City Council, Wellington, on Thursday night the Mayor gave notice to move at next meeting that the Contagious Diseases Act be brought into operation in Wellington. The Christchurch Industrial Association considers that the Factories Act will unduly interfere with the industrial progress of the colony. The same Association suggests that the Government should take steps to procure more space for the manifactures and productions of the colony in perference to occupying any portion with ferneries or Maori encampments as proposed by Dr Haast, Great dissatisfaction is expressed in Southland regarding the new regulations issued by the Railway Department regarding private railway sidings.