TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1389, 8 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A cottage belonging to a laborer named Carl Lange, at Styx, was burned down on Saturday night. It was insured in the Guardian office for £SO.

Henry Dipham, a farmer near Papanui, did suddenly on Sunday. At a meeting of the Auckland Board of Education a resolution was carried that the Board pay to the Official Assignee the £2OO claimed by him as due to Inspector Peacocke’s estate, although already paid to Peacocke. At the instance of ratepayers a Supreme Court injunction will be applied for against the Board for paying from their funds a sum of £2OO salary for which the Judge declared members were personally liable. A Caledonian Society has been formed at Auckland. Judge Gillies has become patron. A boy of the Kohimanraa Training School, aged 13, self inflicted serious injuries requiring his removal to Auckland for treatment.

A fire broke out at 2 a.m, on Saturday at Auckland injCaptain W. F. Hargreaves' premises, Franklyn street, ending in the destruction of tnree shops and dwellings. Hargreaves sustained a total loss. The origin of the fire is unknown. Some of Hargreaves’ family had a narrow escape. Some 5000 people attended a monster demonstration at Nelson on Saturday ia favor of the East and West Coast Railway. The shops were closed and all business suspended for a couple of hours. The Mahinaupua, which arrived at Westport from Nelson, on Saturday morning, reports a fire on the beach at a spit near West Wanganui, where there is supposed to be shipwrecked sailors. A meeting of the creditors of Neil Bros , Dunedin, was held on Saturday morning at which an offer of 5a in the £ was made, half in cash and half guaranteed by Mr P. C. Neill. The offer was not accepted, but the meeting adjourned for ten days awaiting the reply of Mr Dymock from Melbourne.