TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1408, 22 October 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC.

The Queen of Uaratonga, the Piincr Consort, and parly have left for Waikato on a visit to Tawhaio, at the Kinei'e headquarters at Whafiwhalilme. The uar.y have defi.iiiely decided to return lioir.n by the s.s. Janet Eico) on Friday in. xv. (.'unstable Christie, of Auckland, bravely j'i'iiti'-d over the reclaination bteasiwotk ■'t ni'dnight and rescued a man named J:is. Council, who fell over while drunk, i'iii.s m .kesthe sixth life saved by Christie in the colony. The Auckland Social Pmily Society have invited the Rev. Mr Elder, the New South Wales social purity lecturer, te net me on behalf of the Society in Auckland. The Goveru«)v, Lady Jervois, and family and suite are p- peeled lo leave for Chrihtchiirch on Saturday. A t!ii:d attempt has been made to bum 'ie-wn the bouse of Mrs Curry, sent., it lioxhingh street, Wellington, and in'x: don - to the residence of C. Curry, which v ( s r"ei-.-!itly burnt down under suspicion* ■■ircumstanees. The insurance company Oiit-res'od have notified Mrs Curry thai ri.ey will not pay the amount of t lit insurance if the plane is burnt down. The Supreme Court sessions conim-ncc al H ikitika on Monday morning hefor Mis Honor the Chief Justice, Griffiths, for larceny at Bruaiserton, was senteneco .'o nine months. George Grant, foi arceny at Kumara, peaded guilty am was sentenced to fjiir months. Sarah fallen K.itto, for larceny at Greenstone, .va.s found not guilty, and Ah Shiug, foi larceny a> Stafford, also not guiitv. Th- Stella, which left the Bluff oi Saturday for Bounty, Campbell, Auckland, and the Antipodes Islands, uih make a si arch of these places for any i ra.ee of the missing ship North American and her survivors. Mr Balhince will proceed to Auckland te meftt tho Queen ot liaratonga, and will endeavor to induce her to visit the South. The Governor is expected to visit Christchurch this week. The Hen. Mr Ballance has been appointed io the additional ufhYe of Com mis-iioner of Statu Forests under ihe Ac; of last session. The volunteers of the Nelson district were inspected on Friday by Sir George Whitmore. The weather was glorious, and each of the six companies mustered exceeoingiy well. In all 320 were ot parade, and all absent were accounted foi as absent fn'in tho place or sick. Tainni. a Maori chief, committed suicide at Arahura, West Const, on Monday, morning at 5 o'clock. He hanged himself in the Maori meeting house. He wrote two'etlers, one stating that the ae; was taken through his misdeeds, and the other a fatewell letter lo his wife and children and grandchildren. It seems the poor fellow gave a lease of snm quarry land at Grey mouth illegally. The lease should have been given by the Public Trustee. He macnified tb< consequence of the act, and this prey in. on his mind urged him to commit tin fatal deed. Tli 3 Premier is expected to address his ewstituents at Dunedinon Thursday. Oe the case of S. S. Hutchison being called on at the Bankruptcy sitting-* a Dunedin on Monday, the Assignee Mn'ed the bankrupt had gone to Melbourne. I>u hal promised to come l»ack. He *w doubtful if be could liave stopped him, unless he could show that I he proceedings would suffer ; as he was out on bail on an oilier charge, in which it would hjs i misdemeanour if he did not recur I '.! lie had not taken out a warrant. Richard JBowden and Thos. Dndd uerc eoniniitted for trial at Auckland, on Tuesday for ina'icious injury to the .f a contractor named Joseph Lee. In a paper read at the ■ Auckland Insti iite on Now Z .d-i'nf '-Bird.-, Mi Heischeek stron»ly Coe'letiiued 'he inportation cd' stoats and weasels as introducing pests infinitely more difficult ol extermination th .n r .'bis. John Be ungar, »t Feallvrston (Welh'H m-nly ti.e who : e ol' bis -c.dp taken off by a horse he was riding .stiimbing arid throwi g him off and then stamuiigon lishead. Ano'hertn n named (Joimau was thro ad from his horse at Feuiherstoii, and had his Miiill fr-ctured. Both men are in a precarimiM cm,,lit ion. A man named Hugh Lawietison U-A oil the express train on Monday evening near the Waitaki bridge. He was s alio ing on the platloim, and bis balance, fell on hi* face and shou iier clear of the mils. Hs sustained a -slight concussion of the brain, whs .. good deal cut about the face, and hud his shoulder dislocated. The Comptroller-General is at preset); engm'ed in enquiring into the allocalioi; on the lower harbor works if the Uui-i-di'n Harbor Board loans. The Board receive. no notice of this until Mr Fi ! zGerald asked when it would be convenient for him to examine the records. Mis Brown, on rermiLil, charged wifeli murdering her mother, was committed for trial on Tuesday at the Police Court, Dunedin.