TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1383, 25 August 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Kirby an Auckland contractor, has issued a writ for £2560 against the City Council in connection with several contracts which the Council terminated and completed at his nsk. Mrs Edith O'Gorman Suffray, known as the •' Escaped Nun," is expected in the colony by the steamer Arawa to give a aeries of lectures of the Chiniquy type. Aotine Quechenell, a lunatic who killed an armed constable at Taranaki, and also Mills, a patient in the Auckland Asylum, a couple of years ago, has hanged himself in Auckland. He broke the wires on •which the sashes oi the windows are hung and tied it round his neck, drawing it until he strangled himself. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned. A child eleven months old, named Martha Malustica, daughter of German parents at Plat Bush, Auckland, has been choked with a plum stone. At a meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce on Friday the Native Lands Disposition Bill was discussed at length, the following resolution being ultimately adopted :—" That this Chamber is of opinion that the Native Lands Desposition Bill, as brought down by the Native Minister, is not calculated to promote the settlement of the country." On Friday nfteruoon 4098 forfeited shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company were sold by auction at Christchurch. The highest price obtained was 6d, at which 40 were sold. Fifty were sold at sd, 275 at 4d, and 283 at 2d. A man named John Malenoir was found dead at Deep Stream, Otago. He had been left to have a rest by a man who was travelling with him. There are no marks of violence. The Dog, Poultry and Bird Show at Dunedin, was opened on Friday, and was a great success. The entries comprise 302 in poultry, 131 in canaries and song birds, 152 in dog", and 34 in fancy pigeons. It is rumored in commercial circles that two large commercial houses in Dunedin, are in temporary difficulties, buc it is believed that both will be able to arrange. Some smaller failures are also reported. Mr William Center, a member of the Oceania Steamship Company of San Franciseo, arrived by the steamer Australia, for the purpose of tendering for the New Zealand mail service. The Pacific Mail Company it is understood have definitely resolved to retire from the mail service. The Oceania Company run mail steamers to Honolulu at present,and they have two splendid steel ships of 3000 tons each andoflsknotß speed, capable of performing the service in eighteen days. The Wellington lumpers have refused to work the Shaw Savill and Albion Company's vessel Crownthorpe until the difficulty with the lumpers in the South is settled. The vessel is now being loaded by her crevv. The boxing match to a finish for £27 a side, between E. Donovan, of Auckland, and W. Hnrcomb, of ChristchHrch, took place in the Theatre floyal, Christcl.urch, on Saturday night. Ten rounds of very even fighting resulted in favour of Donovan, whose condition was far better than his opponent's. The following team have been selected fo play for Otago in the Interprovincial football match against Canterbury : Russell, Bee, Murray, Boss, Fraser, McTntyre, Buck, Butterworth, Drabble, Henderson, Martin, Menelaus, Morris, Trotter, Treseder. Emergencies—Bowler, Booth. The team contains three men who did not play against Wellington.