TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1445, 22 December 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

'■;A supplementary Gazette issued yesterday morning declares Queensland an infected place under the " Public Health Act, 1876." The following will represent Otago in the forthcoming Interprovincial cricket match againßt Canterbury : —Messrs Austin (Oaptnin), (Jollinson, Dixon, Carson, Beck, Dnbble, Frith, Grieve, Harri?, Hope, a;;d Wyincks. Alexander Smaill's house at Tomahawk Valley, Dunedin, was burnt down on Saturday. The loss amounts to £IOO3. The builbing wa« insured in the South Biiiish effije for £6OO. Whntney and Hazird's cattridge factory, Moil-t Eden, Auckland, commenced operations on Friday. Sir G. S. Whitrc.oro, who was present, expressed himself srat fied at the completeness of the work the factory was capable of. The output, is 60°0 cartridges per day. At the annual meeting of the Auckland City Council attempts were made t» reduce the salaries of the Mayor, To'vn Clerk and other officials, but they were defeated. Aithur Fisher, a young man respectably connected, was committed for trial at Auckland on Friday for alleged passing of counterfeit coin. Te Ko' ti, with 80 mounted followers, passed Tanpo late on Thursday afternoon en route for Wairo'a on the East Coawt. A Maori woman sued Bra«sey, a Gisborne lawyer, to recover £228 paid to defendant for plaintiff t\o years ago, and which she alleged she had never been able to get «ince. Judgment was given for plaintiff. Brassey presented as a set-off a bill of costs for £476, which was reduced £63 on taxation. The bootmakers' strike at Dunedin is now at an end, an amicable sett'ement having been arrived at between the men and the matt'is. An application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Michael John (Vow committed at Invercargill by Judge Ward came before Judee Wiliiams at Dunedn, on Friday. Mr Haggitt, for the Crown contended that the Court could not enter ir,t'> an inquiry as to what had been t dcen place in the District Court, but only on svhat appeared on the face of the warrant. Since the rule was made a second order had been filed. Mr Reilly contended that a man could not be punished for a criminal offence when giving evidence. The Judge re«»rv?d bis decision.

A hoy named John Curd was thrown from his horse at Atdibtnton on Friday evening and dragged some distance. Wlien picked up he wan Mill breaihmg, but be died within half-au-honr.

At the break in- tin of the Christian Brothers' School, Bnnedin,on Friday, Binshop Moran stated he was anxious that the pupils of the school should present themselves at the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University. At the fourth annual meeting at Wellington of the Caswell Sound Marble Company the directors announced they were anxious that the quarry should be further tested, and had agreed to subscribe £IOOO provided the other shareholders or the outside public would subscribe a similar amount. This would mean an addit ; onal capitd of £2OOO, but it was not expected that more than half of this amount would be required.' Mr J. D. Baird who, at the request of his fellow directors, had visited the works, said he must confess that he was disappointed at the appearance of the place. There was no question as to the quality of the marble. It was all that could be desired. If the quarry were nearer to Wellington than it was a use could be made of the refuse and a good profit obtained. The quarry, however, was too far down the coast to ever become a paying concern.. From his visit to the Sound he was convinced that it was no use continuing operations. He, however, would be glad to see some experts from Melbourne visit the quarry, and he was willing to bear a portion of the expense. He did not think it possible to get good blocks of marble from Caswell Sound, but he thought the refuse would make excellent cement. A fmther test is to be made. Some human remains were found oh Mount Victoria (Auckland), while digging trenches for the battery. A party of the unemployed commenced on the Bastion Rock battery (yesterday). A dispute'is pending in the building trade at Auckland, owing to a large contractor intimating tin t in future he will only pay 9s inctead of 10s per day. In Chambers at Napier, on Saturday, it was agreed that the libel actions Q-rubb v. Evening News, and Evening News v. Waipawa Mail, mi»U be tried at Wellington, the Evening News to bear the extra expenses to which the plaintiff and defendant will be put. The corporation of Napier will appeal againtt the decision of the R.M. re Salvation Army procession case. The White's Bay end of Cook Straits cahlo was picked up on Friday night by the Sherard Osborne. The cable was soon spliced and the f-teamer returned to Wellington on Sunday afternoon. Ah Get, a Chinaman, has been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to defraud his creditors. Bail was allowed.

The ship Otaki sailed foi London from Wellington at 10.55 on Sunday morning. Considerable interest is taken in Christchurch in the matter of the dead hand picked rip on Sumner bead) last Wednesday. Though a ring upon it has been idenlified as Howarde's who was drowned on October 10th, the life insurance offices interested have not paid the a mount of the policies to the widow. Howarde was insured for between £2OOO and £3OOO in various offices, including the Government. A large number of medical men have seen the hand, in order to give opinions as to the' time that has elapsed since death. The Premier addresses his constituents on Wednesday, reviewing Major Atkineon's'recent speech.