TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1388, 5 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

A Lumpers Union has been formed in Ttmaru.

The Lumpers’ Union, Auckland, have resolved, that while sympathising with the men in the dispute at Lyttelton, they cannot see their way to join in the strike. A boat accident is reported from Great Barrier Island by which a Maori named Eate and his wife are believed to have been drowned. They were in a boat during Monday’s storm. The boat has been thrown on shore and smashed. A man named James Waidon was arrested at Wellington, on Wednesday, on a charge of being implicated in the tarring case at the Hutt. The Survey Department will undertake observations of the approaching eclipse from Utahuhu hill, about six miles from Masterton. Photographs of the corona will be taken, and every effort made to contribute to the elucidation of that phenomena. A heavy thunderstorm was experienced dt Westport on Monday. Lightning struck the wire ropes and rails leading to the Koranui mine, and a number of miners in it at the time, together with a ponv. were knocked down by the severity of the shock, but were not injured.

At a meeting of Hutchison’s creditors, at Dunedin, an application was made by him for maintenance but it was refused. The English Company has made an offer to purchase the estate, and the matter was left in the hands of the Assignee.

Another case of attempted suicide by “ Rough on Rats ” came before the Dun* edin Court on Wednesday, when Alice Clayton was charged with the offence and remanded to the Refuge. A glove contest took place in Timaru on Thursday night between B. Donovan (of Auckland) and Dan Lea (of Timaru) for £lO a-aide. The conditions yvere that Donovan was to knock Lea out in four three-minute rounds. The display of “science” was very good, but though Donovan was in better condition than his opponent he failed to settle him in the four rounds, and Lea therefore takes the stakes. There were a good many spectators present. Forty men employed at the Addington Railway Workshops have been suspended for absenting themselves from work on Wednesday afternoon to attend the West Coast Railway demonstration. They had been led to believe by someone connected with the League that Government would grant them a half-holiday, as all the other workmen in the district had one. The Chairman of the City Council and tha Railway: League have telegraphed to the Government explaining the matter and asking for the men t® be reinstated. The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held in Dunedin on Thursday. The chair was taken by Mr Mackerras, who, in the absence of the President, delivered the usual address. He stated that the agricultural and pastoral industries were more depressed than last year. The following resolution was passed ; —“ That in order to strengthen the hands of the Otago Members of Parliament in resisting the beginning of new public works, especially the Bast and West Coast Railway, and generally those involving an increase of borrowing on the part of the colony, this Chamber is of opinion that any vote proposed for the initiation of the East and West Coast Railway should be opposed, irrespective of the effect of such opposition on other votes on the Public Works Estimates." Mr Justice Gillies on Thursday morning, at Auckland, delivered judgement in a case brought by the Official Assignee to recover£2oo from the Board of Education, being the salary paid to one of the Board’s employees after he had tiled, The Assignee claimed the money for the creditors. Hia Honor held that members of the Board were personally liable to pay £2OO, and gave judgement accordingly. A company, to be called the Perongia Mineral Association, has been formed kl Auckland to prospect the King Country for gold. The capital is £2500, Three experienced Thames prospectors hare been engaged. Marshal Booth and Major Barrett left Auckland for the South on Thursday. A farewell meeting to them at the Salvaton Barracks last Wednesday night was packed. Hundreds were turned away. During Marshal Booth’s mission 200 penitents came forward.

Oajtain Gibbs, of the Orawaiti, which arrived at Westport from Lyttelton on Thursday, reports when three miles south of West Wanganui he observed several men on the beach, some of them waving what was taken to be red shirts. Ho also saw an object thought to be a boat, but the weather came on.hazy and obscured the view.

By a fire at Eyreton last Wednesday night several stacks, containing 1200 bushels of beaus, and a threshing mill, steam engine and dray, the property of Mr Beal, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at £SOO, and there was no insurance.

The depth of the bore at the Southern Cross Petroleum Company’s ground is reported to be 365 feet, and driving is much easier.