TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1381, 20 August 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

In the Supreme Court, Dunedin, the divorce case Watson v. Watson and Gillespie, tho Oamaru case, a decree nisi was granted. There was no appearance of respondent or co-respondent, who are both living at Napier. Last Tuesday night Joseph Mayhew, a eordial manufacturer at Feilding, was thrown from his horse on the Hwahuri road and killed. His neck was broken. A fire at Mornington, Dunedin, early yesterday destroyed houses owned by Messrs Mclntyre and Black. They were occupied by Lestrange and Kelly. A third house occupied by Inglis bad a narrow escape. 'Black only purchased and entered into possession on Monday last. The insurances are :—Black'-* £l5O in the Standard office, Mclntyre's, £155 on the house and £6O on the furniture in the South British. The cause of the fire was ashea left in the scullery of McTntyre's house. The Lyttelton lumpers (who are Union men) went on strike on Tuesday morning, and declined to work the barque Merope. The alleged cause of the strike is that the Slnw Savill and Albion Company's agents in Port Chalmers had employed non-Union men to work their vessels there. The action applies to the above Company only. The vessels will be worked by their crews and such nonUuion men enn be procured.