TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1443, 19 December 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Twenty of thp- nnemp|oyed at Auckland,, including, tha ,)iu3or: agitato* l Garrard, have bepq placed bo the harbordefences at'North Shore; A large number will be taken on ias - soon »s the works 7 are laid They!-have been warned by Colonel Whitmore that there must be no shuffling cOi*> “ Government stroke,” but real downright steady work, otherwise they will be dismissed from the works.

The valuation of the City ofo Auckland has. been increased by£4Q,ooO dpricg the last year. At a,meeting of volunteers at Wanganui last Tuesday night to consider Whitnaorp’s., fpvitatjpnj tothp Camara Easteri a 'resolution was passed it, and requesting the Dpfppce Minister to allow tbeir claim for tents and camp equipage on the numbers likely to attend. The Wanganui volunteers that the Nelson and WplHngtob Wanganui in preference t. 6 going South. The Wellington end of the Cook Strait cable 'was picked' up on Wednesday morning end buoyed. ' The ■ Cable: steamer Sherard Osborne, was not successful in picking .up.; the Whites Bay, epd, of the cable, as the. weather came , on ' rough. It is probable the iirhble bf'thd' cable will be examined. 1 ' Thi rumored intention ,to .create new roembera of the Legislative.,Council is deqie.d by the, Government. Bishop Redwood and Father Seauseau returned from Sydney on■ Wednesday naornirigj ■

The Minister of-Public \Vorka s is now in communication, with the Colonial Treasurer, respecting a scheme for obviating the delay and inconvenience to which contractors' ire flow subject' before receiving' pajrinenf for work doiie ; ft# ment. Instead Of all vouchers having to be forwarded to Wellington to go through the Audit Office and Treasury before payment, it is intended to' authorise the District Engineers to audit the accounts ofl the;spot,: apd /when satisfied of their correctness. to -pay the u ambunt direct. The system is, expected ( to comp into force about pebrupry Ist. ! ’ 4 ’’ l An 1 extraordinary discovery was made at Taylor’s Sumner,,on Wednesday. ; AiM? Oodffey wss wplking on the beach, when be picked up a man’s hand with, some inchos Of arm attached. It 1 was the left hafld andwas not at all decomposed j and appeared to. be snapped or brokeflc'from thp body<j relic has been taken possession of by, the police, who are making enquiries, but are not in possession of any-further information at present.—Latir n4ws states the tho ring on the hand found at Sumner had been identified as having belonged to Arthur Howardflj Jrhojwas supposed tohavei be* 1 drowned .sow October llth, and whose life was insured for £2400.

The : stores of J. Austfyand C. Strachan, of Hakaterampa, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. The fire began in Mr Austin's place, and the whole of his stock was destroyed. Mr Strachan saved nearly all his stock. Mr Austin’s stock and buildings were insured foy- £650 in the Victoria office, and Mr Strachan’* shop for £SO, it is believed in the South British office. A man named* William Qopch Wood was found, dead, in a cottage at A venal, near, Inyercargill, bn Wednesday. The rleceaiedj . wh’o whs between 50 and 60 years old, 1 lived by himself, 1 and hrm last seen alive about three weeks ago. People in the vicinity noticed a ir amell and informed thejroli(*,_who burst open the dpor and fbuod WbpdVbody, which was greatly/decomposod. the appearance indiettting that death must have occurred eoma tu)nb.:tfgp ;