TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1385, 29 August 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

Three men from Stewart Island are supposed to have been drowned, owing to a boat accident. Their names are William Chaslann, William Fortune, and John Brown. They left on Monday morning in a boat to attend a native fnnera lat Hingaringa, and have not since been heard of Af 'he Supreme Court, Invercargill, on Thursday, Mary Tucker, arrested at We*’■ngton, was acquitted of the charge of stealing £125 and sundry articles of clothing belonging to her husband. The case was noteworthy as being the first of the kind under the Married Women’s Property Act, which makes provision tor the wife being charged with larceny of her husband’s property, and enables him to give evidence against her. At the inquest on the young man Charles Mellish, of Oxford, Auckland, on Wednesday, the p ry returned a verdict of “ accidental deaf), caused through some other person.” It appeared that the deceased wrote a letter to his employer, Mr Kincaid, from which it must lie inferred t l, at he contemplated suicide. He had also written a memo, of his wiil dividing his life assurance money between his brother and sister.

Marshall Booth is addressing crowded audiences in Auckland. He slates the same system prevails in the leading colonial cities, though to a lesser extent, ns to that which the Pall Mall Gazette has exposed in London. In due season he will come to the front with disclosures, backed by trustworthy evidence, obtained through the agency of male and female brigades. From letters received in Auckland it appears that the port to which the Coptic was hound when she left here under sealed orders was Coquimho, a town at the mouth of a river of the same name on the coast ef Chili.

Alex. Stuart, a WePington commission agent, charged with unlawfully selling two railway return tickets, including the steamer fare, from Ashburton to Wellington, was fined 10s and £lolls costs. VV. Sydney Muir, who was assaulted and tuned at the Lower Hutt, Wellington has instructed Mr Travers, solicitor, to take proceedings against the offenders. In the Divorce Contt Wellington, on Wednesday, the case Cole v. Cole and Watson (Palmerston North) came on. A decree absolute was granted. The case of McFadgen v. McFadgen (Kaikoura), in which the wife was petitioner, was settled out of Court by the husband granting the wife alimony. The following cable message lies been received from the Colonial Secretary of New South W«les in reply to one from the Government regarding smallpox :

“ All known cases of small( ox are in strict isolation oh the Hospital Ship, at Quarantine Station and were removed from the Oceanie, which left this port on 11th inst. in quarantine. Should any case appf ar in Sydney your health authorities will he duly informed,” The Public Works St dement contained 15.643 words, and was finished at Napier in hours and at Auckland in 4| hours, at Wanganui at 11. SO p.m. and a) Blenheim for the South at 11.59, reaching Dunedin at 12,5 a.m. Kivell of W anganui and Price of Wakapuaka maintained 42 words per minute, and Be van of Wellington and Kirker of Wanganui 37f words per minute throughout. la reply to a telegram from Christchurch offering to match Hancock against Scott at 12 hours f or £SOO, a reply has been sent from Dunedin, that the money is at hand to back Scott for 60 miles for all that the other’s friends can muster. At the Invercarsrill Police Court on Wednesday morning, three youths about 16 years old wi re charged with throwing rotten eggs at a member of the Salvation Army and otherwise maltreating him. They were fined £2 each, or ten days’ imprisonment, Tliej went to gaol. At the Supreme Court, Invercargill, on Wednesday, Thomas Gibson was found guilty of pet jury on the same charge ns his son was convicted of on Wednesday. Both were sentenced to two years’ hard labor. James Christie, arr sted in Wellington, was acquitted on a charge of theft of a watch and wearing apparel belonging to George Tucker, and with whose wife he had gone off. The Hon. Mr Stout has been retained us senior counsel by the proprietor of the Wellington Evening Press, in the libel action by Dr Stewart, of Christch urcb.

The City Council unanimously decided to bring the Contagious Diseases Act into operation in Wellington. Helps, an auctioneer at Alexandra, Auckland, died suddenly on Thursday.

of Messrs Scott Bros., iron-founders-(Christchurch), employees went to Wellington by the Holomahana on Thursday to assist in working the plant at the Exhibition, and to give the men an opportunity of seeing the displaj". The employers are paying half the expenses of the trip. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cablegram announcing the arrival of the Rimntaka at Rio on August 26th, aU well. The frozen meat was in good condition. The West Coast Railway League Committee, on Thursday decided to extend membership to the general public, and lo issue medals to members. The enhance fee was fixed at 2s 61. 2500 medals are to be issued at once. The Committee confirmed the desirability of entering into an alliance with Westland and Nelson for furthering the construction of the line.

The annual inerting of the Canterbury Chamber of Coinim reo was ti.-lH on Thursday. The reiving Vna -President, ilr G G. Stead, flelivi r-d a ientrtliV and exhaustive address, d'-a'ing with the causer of Hie existing depression, its extent, and our lutnre pro-pecis. He considered tliat as a period of exceptions!) depression is generally followed hy a corresponding peuod of activity, we may he cenain the depression would not long continue. IJe pioted statistics to show tha 1 , notwillistanding ihe B.Vote, dentesB i .n fr. in which we may be individually suffering, the natinil wealth of the colony has not been serou-.lv ■ ffected. With ihe sm erahundatice of food, tinmany valuable iniiietals, and the inexhaustible sopp y of raw mateiials suitable to carry on almost every known inanuf eluting industry, he uid not think if coli nists were loyal to themselves tliete need he any fear of the future, Mr Stead was elected President and Mr J. Gould Vice-President for the ensuing year.