TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1387, 3 September 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC.

It is understood the Government have purchased the right to manufacture the Jiirdine torpedo in the colony. Mr Jardine is now making arrangements for submitting his invention to the Australian Government", and to the Admiral of the Australian squadron. Isaac Mason HtH, a settler who has resided at Nelson for forty-three years, dind on Monday evening. The deceased wu well-known as a temperance advocate, having been a total abstainer for over fii'iy years. A little girl four years old, daughter of T. W. Jollie«, a farmer at Lakeside, near S.Mithbridge, set her eloth'S on fire while playing with matches on Sunday last. Before the flames could be extinguished she was so severely burned that she died early on Monday morning. A telegraph pole in the Waim ikariri riverbed, at the Bealey Junction, waß struck by lightning at 10.24 o'clock on Monday mornine:. The lightning fused all the wires leading into the Telegraph Office, and set the inside of the office on fire in several places.

vVhile the dredge was at work at Dunedin, on Monday, the body of a Chinaman was brought up by one of the buckets. It had been in the water soma days. -It was -identified as that of Sue Win?, who had expressed a determination to take his life.

4 prisoner at Dunedin named Fisher, who was recently sentenced for breach of prison discipline, was again brought np on Monday and sentenced to 18 days on bread and water. While in. and near the Court he behaved in a noisy manner, shouting and liboting, and' fimashed the cub windows on his way back to gaol. A private letter received at Christ, church states that Sir. Wm. Fox intended to leave England yesterday. He will travel overland through America, and probably reach New Zealand about the middle of November.

In the Supreme Court, lnvercargiP, His Honor Mr Justice Williams gave judgement for the defendants in' the case Waterstone v. the New River Harbor Board without hearing evidence. The claim was for £ISOO damages alleged to have been caused through the Board's careless berthing of the brigantine Sarah and Mary at Invercargill jetty by which hlib was strained. In the case Penny, father v. Perkinn, claim £2OO damages for libel, judgement was given for the plaintiff for £5 and costs. The plaintiff was Ranger for the Southland Acclimatisation Society, and was charged some- time a»o for poaching tor trout in the Lakes District. The defendant, who is a "Justice of the Peace, was Treasurer of ihe Southland and wrote to the Secretary of the Lakes Society as follows :—" Sorry to learn our Ranger has committed himself by poHchin2. You will please note that in future he must be kept a' a distance.' He ii a "man to whom it is not safe to give liberty, and' was appointed on the. Home principle'that old poachers make the best gamekeepeis."

At Invercargill Bridget Campbell was on Tuesday charged at the Police Court with burning down.hw: house at: Averal wiiii intent to defraud the Standard Insurance Company. She was remanded, and bail refused. . , , ;;

Dkolinb of iAN Norv -limess,W.'ft"rne»», D.pp'-pMS l'r.poi.e;.ce, Sexual Debility, cured by " Walls'. • Health ■ Drneghfg, Kaoipihurne, Ptottot & Co., Agent*, Christen urch. , ...... ;i , 2 At'the R. M. Court, Timarn,-. on/ Tues«

day lubt two chemists were eachi fined 5s and costs for having sod severd. bottles of chlorodyne without attaching the label bearing the word " Poison " tothebottle. " RorjQH on Rata."—Clears out ?a>-», tmoe, ro»obe», fl'eg, an.*, bed-bug*, bpntle» ins'-cti, iku'jke, j..ck abbi-.fl, Druggist. Esaipihorue, Pi'osser& t ! «., Agents,: Oh Hutch uroh. 2

The Port Chalmers Licensing B •noli have resigned in cons'-quence of the Colonial Secretary granting h charter as a club to the Royal Hotd, to which house they had refused to gran* a liepns*. ""Rtjo*p Paih*."— Q.j.o«!, o-ra.ii cureg, Kidney. 41 >rt'er *ni 17 vury Disease*, ad IK-uggiat*. JK-;mpUuij:ue, i'roidm & (Jo., Ageatt, Unristohuroh. . ; £