TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1405, 15 October 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Four more six-horse wagons have arrived to carry merchandise from the Bluff to Invercargill. This will make six tt work. Arrangements have been made to provide them with back loading. Two privates of the Blenheim Rifles were fined 40s and costs yesterday for absenting themselves from Government parades without permission or lawful excuse. Government intend to enforce the strict examination of nil vessels arriving at any port of the colony from the Pacific islands in consequence of the fever epidemic. Mr J. D. Lance, who avowed himself a supporter of Government, addressed his constituents at Amberley on Monday. He received a vote of thanks. Frederick Kressler, chief clerk in the Victorian Insurance Company’s office, Dunedin, was charged at the Police Court on Tuesday with embezzling £47 of the Company’s money. Other charges are to be brought against him, his defalcations amounting to £SOO. A verdict of accidental deatli was returned in the case of Alexander Kiignur, found dead in a creek near Ashburn Hall Lunatic Asylum. The father of deceased stated that it was nothing unusual for his son to go on bis hands and knees to drink from a creek, and it was shown that he was subject to epileptic fits. The glove contest at Invercargill on Tuesday between T, Williams and P. Gallagher, in which the latter undertook to knock out his opponent in eight rounds, resulted in a win for Williams on the seventh round. The Dunedin Garrison Band on Wednesday forwarded a protest to Wellington against the band contest awards, on the ground that the Judge’s published report will not bear the criticism of musical experts. They request that the report, together with the band part of the sightreading test be sent Home for examination to the Professor of Military Music at the Royal College of Music, London, and suggest that in the meantime the documents referred to be submitted to Herr Schmitt, of Auckland, for scrutiny to decide whether there be any warrant for this protest.