TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1412, 31 October 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A deputation of brewery publican?, and others interested in the liquor traffic, waited on the Hon. J. ijallance at Auckland on Thursday ; representatives of the Press were excluded at the request of ihe deputation." i H.M.S. Nelson is expected to" visit Wellington next month. Sir Julius Vogel will probably not .eturn to Wel'ington until the latter end ••f next month, and in the meantime will visit Otago aud Southland. The circuit sitting of the Supreme Court, N»l«an, opened on Thursday with three charges on the calendar.. J. B, Mandell, charged with einbezs'ement of £35, pleaded guilty and was s»ntenc«d to eighteen months' hard' labor. Albert Lowe and John Gray, chargad with Urceny, each .received-a .sentence of twelve months* "harii' labor." A suit for judicial separation, Walcott v. W'alcott, hasyetto ''' '' ji Mr S.' G.Farr, l&cretarj' ; 6f thoUiioter* oury Acclimatisation Society has received from the Committee of tlie Society and a few other friends of acclimatisation, and the : MasUrton and Napier Societies',' £IOO, to imrk the appreciation <>f the donee'n services towards the introduction of English salmon into the country. At a special meeting of the old Hospital .mi Charitable Aid Board,- Christchurch, on Thursday, it was decided by a l;irge Majority " That it ia undesirable that the Hospital i should be maintained' as a separate institution apart from the iHUHgement of the Board newly elected mder the Act," i . ~.''•. A nn« of Is and costs was on Thursday nflicted for laving poison in a gardes in Ouuedin. The case was brought a« a test ■lie.. ' ;."•'". o■:'.. Mr Maxwell, Qeneral Mansger for Bailvaye, had a protracted interview* .with he Invercargill Chamber at Commerce rid the Railway Committee on Wedues<ay afternoon on the tariff and [other jiieation*. Nothing definite was arrived r, but with reference to measurement dutrges on the Pert line, Mr Maxwell - iid the Government had on view a ..-heme by which the highest charge on . ueasureuient goods would be louSd per ead weight ton, Insome cljsHes at preout the rate is 803 for the 17 miles from Bluff to Invercargill. At the .Divorce Court, Wellington, on Thursday, decrees absolute were granted ii the cases Wm. Arthur Smith, v. Alice Smith and S. A. Strike, and Marjj Jane j'Kean v. James Grey. The Hon. J. P. Buckley is improving in health. . :'■ aThe carbine with which a boy accidentally -■hot hid brother recently at Blenheim, ff.is examined on Thursday by Captain Bu'llie, the officer commaiidiog the disirict, and found perfectly sound in every respect. The statement made by the boy it the inquest that the carbine went off at half-cock, because of a defective lock, must be incorrect. Ad the rifles and carbine? in the district were inspected, and round in good order, by Captain Baillie j ist before last session. A little girl, tvo years old; daughter of David Barker, of- Fendaltowo, Christci/urch, was drowDed in a fresh poud in front of her father's house on Thursday. The Hon, E. Richardson, Milliliter of Public Works, arrived at Christchurch from Wellington on Thursday. Last Wednesday night the Solvation Amy Hall in Madras Street, Christchurch, was broken into, an entrance having been effected through the front window. Plunder was evid«ntly.;Uie,object of the' perpetrator, who, however, only succeeded in obtaining tbe'stim of 3s V9d, for which lie h«d to break open two or three locks, and take considerably more trouble than the money was worth. It is supposed the burglar thought he would secure .the result of * collection which hud been made at the previous service in aid of the building fund, which it is stated- realised ' £3O; 'Fortunately, however', the money was removed. The charge of assault" against Oscar Johnston, a pupil teacher at the Heathcot* school, came before the Keifidenfc Magistrate's Court, Chriatchurch, again cm Thursday,* when the evidence of two juris who ware present at the time was taken, and did not at allbear out the statements made by the'police at fhV!j)reyious hearing. They said that was naturally oickly, and bad complained of b'iog unwell on that particular worhibg, aid the teacher only touched her lightly with the pointer to attract bar attention. She did not faint, and, though alia, complained of being unwell shortly afterwards, she remained in th* school till it witß dismissed for the afternoon. As the girl in still ill the ca*e was further adjourned till November 19th. ;', For permitting Sunday trading a Dunedin publican was ou Thursday tinu<\£s and co»ts, aud 5* and costs for permitting drunkennabs in his licensed hoWe.' A Maori ohief named Wiitota ban died at Dunedin, aged 82. He belonged to the Nelson district, where he held a h,igh rank. He was orie'e taken 'prisoner] in a native war. After some serf funujr' experience he joined the vessel ' wh'rr I brought out the first settlers to Gtsgo, The h'llf-yearly meeting of'shnreholoert of the Batik of New Zealand was held at Auckland on Thursday. The usual dividend and bonus were declared, and the balance £27 ; WO carried next half year. With the exception of a slight increase in deposits the figures yetierallyißho,w little variation from those "f the preuious half-year. Coin, bu linn and Government securitian amount t* .over two millions. The Cnairman remarked upon th&~contin«ed-«n4~de<3p*n. ing depression »u thei value of' co. (jnUl produce, which had checked ente'rpj i« and depreciated values, and therettr* tended to multiply and aggravate the losses, but he expressed the confident j belief that : in the ordinary f pourse ot •biojji a reaction must let in before long.