TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1417, 12 November 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the Church parade, Auckland, last Sunday, the sum of £44 was collected for the purpose of repairing the monuments and ornaments of the graves of the soldiers who fell in the Waikato war. , A new volcanic island ia reported by the captain of the Myrtle, which line arrived from the Tonga group. The volcano was not active but is identical with a submarine volcano lately observed. Mis Sabina Gilmour, lately co fined, has died suddenly at Auckland. Mefon death, it is said she had took spirits of salts. A verdict was returned of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. It is said MHj'or Atkinson will shortly stump the colony, speaking at Hawera first, and thence visiting the South, and afterwards Auckland. By a buggy accident at Featherstori, Wellington, a two-year-old daughter of Mr D. McDongal's was killed. At the Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual dinner at Auckland, last Monday evening, Major Walmsley said he hoped that at the next year's Show the New Zealand Stud and Pedigree Ooiipany would be able to exhibit h fitting successor to Musket. Mr Jones, who was gored by a bull he waß taking to the Auckland Agricultural Show, died on Monday from his injuries. Mr J. A. Cunningham, a son of Mr A. H. Cunningham, an old Canterbury settler, died at Napier on Tuesday after a short illness. A swagger named H. Humphries wne drowned on Sunday while crossing the Ngaruroro river, Hawhes Bay. Accounts which have lately been sent out for the property t<x due on the 26th instant are charged on the assessment made for the three years ending 31? t March nex», and the statements lately sent in by property owners and th« valuation now being m ule by asse s irs will be used for the lissessmeul for tin three years commencing the lat April next. At the Wellington M ijjHrate's Court, on Tuesday, A lendale and Mi 'dleton, the two convic'B who esciped from gro', but were recaptured, were charged nit* l that offence, and were CQUmmted fvr trial.

The first annual dog show under the auspices of the Canterbury Fox Terrier Club was held at Christchurch on Tuesday. Three hundred and twenty dogs were entered, and were on the whole of a superior clnßß. An old Encjliah fancy fair on a large scale was opened at Christchurch on Tuesday in the Drill Shed. The object is to raise money to pay off the debt on the building, The interior is turned into a roalistic representation of an old Eng'iah Htrf-et. The nttend.iuce has been huge. The Committee of the Dunedin Hospital has resolved to take necessary steps to form it into a separate institution under the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Act. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Joseph Bland, late representative in Dunedin of Stewart, Dawson and Co., watchmakers. His defalcations are sworn at £590. Bland left for Melbourne over a week ago. -The priucipaL of the firm nrrived by the Rimutaka. The Phce-iix mine at Skippers has just crushed 530 ounces of retorted gold from. 420 tons of quartz.