TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1443, 19 December 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Twenty-two J.P.’a have been appointed. Those in the Canterbury districts are Messrs S. P. Andrews, C. P. Hulbart, and H. A. Watt, Christchurch; and C. A. 0. Hardy, South Rangitata. James Doyle died from injuries received by falling over a precipice at Nenthorne. Supreme Court writs were on Thursday issued against Mr H. N, Abbot of Auckland, Mr Lachlan McGowan, Mr Luscombo Searrell and Mr Charles Hardings at the suit of Mr John Panstone Adams, of London, proprietor of the copyright of “Maiitana,” claiming £2OO damages for unlicensed presentations of that opera by the company now performing in Wellington. An injunction restraining the future performance of the opera is also asked for. Messrs'Buckley, St'ffbrd, and Barton act for the plaintiff (whose registered New Zealand representative is Mr E. T. Gillon), and Mr Travers has accepted service on behalf of defendants. Proceeding are also likely to be taken to restrain the performance of the “ Bohemian Girl.”

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday morning, an application for an injunction to prevent the Opera Company playing “ Maritana ” was refused. His Excellency the Governor, in hjs speech at the presentation of prizes at Christ’s College, Christchurch, on Thursday, referred to the fact that the Horn* Government had shown their appreciation of the system of education adopted in the Australian colonies, including New Zealand, by offering the members of the Universities the right to compete for commissions in the Royal Engineers. He trusted that the one who would be appointed from this colony would do honor to the University that sent him and to the previous education he had received. He expressed great pleasure at the progress the school was making in sending forth so many scholars to do honor to the institution and the able master who conducted it.

On Thursday morning the Primate laid the foundation stone of the new buildings at Christ’s College, Christchurch. James Doyle, while walking along the line at Nenthorne (Otago), slipped and fell down a precipice 200 feet high. He was picked up insensible and terribly cut, but is likely to recover. Mr J. 0. Brown, M.H.R., was presented with 250 sovs. last Wednesday night, at] a banquet held at Lawrence. The Hons. Messrs Larnach and Tole were guests. The two Ministers on Thursday visited the claims in the neighborhood. Mott of the fish recently caught by the officers of the Hinemoa for the Colonial Exhibition have died, and the attempt to take New Zealand fish Home alive will be abandoned.

The Rhnutaka sailed for London at seven o’clock on Thursday evening. She is full of cargo and takes many passengers. Professor Black lectured on Thursday night in the Choral Hall, Auckland, on his impressions of the Thames goldfields and the establishment there oi a School of Mines. He spoke hopefully of the Thames, and said it was the best place in the Southern Hemisphere for the establishment of a School of Mines. Information for criminal libel has been laid against T. G. Sawkins, Editor of the Evening News, Napier, for remarks in an article on a case of alleged indecent assault, . , At a meeting on Thursday night of the members of St. John’s Anglican Chuich, Napier, it was decided to build at once a large brick and Stone church, to accommodate eleven hundred worshippers. £BOOO have bn 9ll already guaranteed towards the cost of the new church.

Mr P. Wa'yland, a well-known auctioneer, of Kaikoura, died suddenly on Thursday morning. The various Mayors in the colony are gazetted Justices of the Peace under the Municipal Corporations Act,