TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1446, 24 December 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A prospecting party is about . ti stait for the King Country, backed up by Auckland speculators. A free fight occurred at the Otahubu race meeting over the running of Snake, d. railway platelayer named George Bairit; being badly struck. LeSeur, a bookmaker, and Dan O'Brien, the horse's owner, who were in the melee,' got roughly handled. Maguire, contractor for the Victori;'. Arcade, Auckland, having reduced carpenters' wages from 10s t> 9s per <1 \y, 45 employed there went out on ;t-ike on Tuesday. Carpenters on the Kree Library and other works, whose wages have been 9s and under for some t:n»e past, have also struck. 100 are now on strike.

A lad named Arthur Williams, 17 years of age, was drowned while bathing at Napier on jSunday. The body was got out shortly after the accldeut, but all efforts to resuscitate it were unavailing. The Hawkea Bay County Council voted on Tuesday £IOO to the late Chairman, Mr F. Sutton, for valuable services rendered during the many years of his office. News has just been received of a tremendous bush fire which is raging at Tekapau, Hawkes Bay. Drower's miii and all the workmen's houses have been destroyed. A man named Robert Petch, living ! t Woodville, attempted su'eide on M -nd»y by stabbing himself with a shonth kitift'. The wound is dangerous, bn? hope•; are entertained of bis recovery. He is reported tn have been drinking lately. Sir Julius Vogel is suffering from a severe chill, but with five or six days quiet rest Dv Grace, his medical attendant, expects he will bo able to resume his official duties. The Government received information that 60 of the Auckland unemployed had applied for work and that tiry had been taken on.

The new system of delayed telegrams comes into force on and after January 2nd. Terrains of tins claw will be posted to their address immediately on receipt at the telegraph offices to which they are addressed, and will also be delivered over the public counter, into private boxes, or by the firm delivery by letter carriers, instead of being deluyed until, the morning, as hitherto. Thin clnss of telegrams will be subject to delays when the wires are engaged by messages which have a prior right to transmission. The change is a tentative one, and may be cancelled at the end oj three months, or varied in such manner as the Postmnster-General may determine. In the Supreme Court, Wellington on Monday morning, Mr E. T. Gillon, on behalf of Mr J. Fanstone Adams, of London, proprietor of the copyright of the opera "Maritann," obtained an interim injunction to restrain the Wilson and Majeroni Opera Company from playing that opera in the colony, pending the action taken against tlu'i'i for infringement of the copyright. The Auckland city fresh water swimming hath?, erected by the City Council at.a'cust of £7003, were formally opened by the Mayor on Tuesday afternoon. Sixteen prisoners will come up far trial at the Supreme Court sessions, Auckland.

A body h»s been found in the Waika'o river. It bears marks of violence, and suspicions are entertained of foul ph.y Dr D'.dziel makes a post mortem examiua Hon.

A tender has been accepted fop dis erection of the Costley Boys' Training Institute, Auckland, at £2490. A young man named Wiliiam Carter, brother of the members of ibe drapery firm in Dunedin, was drowned new Lawrence en Sunday while buttling. Mr Bills linn brought by the Tainui 88 English robins, in addition to a large number of other birds. The Colonial S"cretnry visited »he Soacliffe Afiylinn on. Monday, and found a portion of the northern win" sudly in need of repair. A slight gas explosion, by which damnge to the extent of about £ls wis donp, occurred at Montagu's fancy bazaar, Duned'n, on Monday night.

A serious accident occurred to t-:a Taupo coach on Monday afternoon. In going down a steep cutting to theMohake livtr the coach capsized. No further particulars are to hand except that the driver, Griffiths, is reported nearly de*d and several passengers seriously injured. Medical assistance has been sent up.— Later news states that Griffiths, proprietor of the Taupo coach, has been brought to the Hospiral, Napier, but is not expected to live. His head has been crushed, his left leg broken, and he has sustained other injuries. The passengers by the coach, though shaken, are not materially injured. The cause of the accident was the giving way of the brake of the coach when going down a at«ep cutting and •harpturufl.

The Premier on Monday agreed th the request of tbe members of t Churitable Board for free passes on t railways was reasonable, and baa wir recommending that they be granted. The Chief Justice g»»e his decision < Tuesday at Napier, in the case of Pan ! Kaiwbato v. Russell Bros, He decidi on all points in favor of the defendant giving, costs on, the highest scale. ] Chambers the adjourned application the plaintiff to the case Grubb v. tl Eveniug News for an order that the d fendants should attend was dealt wit The Chief Justice said that the defen was embarrassing, and ordered that j much of it aa denied that the publicatic was false should be struck out, and tb th« defendants should before the l«t January deliver an nmesded defenc setting out specifically the facts (if an; upon which th<;y relied as justification fi the publication, also setiing ont npecil cally the facts in respect of which the alleged the publication to have been fair comment. AH three libel cases wei fixed for the 19th instead of 12th Janunr; nt Wellington. t A fire occurred at Ooehunea ire works, the damage.done being £IOO. Constable Gnihara, of New mark* (Auckland), was thrown from his horse c Tuesday. Hia skull was fractured an there are little Slopes of bis recovery.

Mr J. H. Brown, Chairman of th Wairoa County Council, has forwarded telegram to the Native Minister urgio him to take measures lo atop the furth« progress of Te Kooti towards Povert Bay via Wairoa. The greatest alart exiß*s at Wairoa, for although half of th natives there are prepared to welcome T Kooti, the other half are hostile, and it i feared that if anything goes wrong retalii tion will be made on the aettlera. A impression prevails that Te Kooti is goinj into the Uou'b den,

The Treasurer of the'Wellington Bern volent Institution has received an intiir.K tion from Government that the State wi! not furnish money for the support of thi Benevolent Society for Decernbtr. The portion ot the original Cook Strai cable where the break occurred has bee] cut out and brought to Wellington Only in a few feet does the cabla ahoi any sign of deterioration, although it hi been submerged some eighteen and a-Lal yenrs. The portion actually brokei i hrough appears to have been resting 01 the shiirp edge of a rock, and to har been subjected to chemical action—probably that of copper—-which has cor roiled and eaten through tha wire am other m iterials forming the cable. Inra pairing the break the steamer whh able tc save several fathoms of cable by taking ii some of the s'ack, which resulted from iti linving been originally lrcd down by i aailing vessel. Bishop Redwood, accompanied by th( Rev. Father Se iiizeau, left overland foi WaDgnnui on Tuesday morning, en rovtt for Jerusalem, whiiher the. Biihoj goes to celebrate the opening of the new mission church on Christmas Day. Te Kooti has telegraphed from Taup< to the Native Minister that he has beet well received, by the ptopla there. H( does not state what his future movementi will be.

A complimentary ball to C. B, Hulbert (late Mayor of Christchurch) took place ii the Provincial Council Chamber on Tuesi day night with great succeas. The Governor was present. Mrs Hulbert w<ti presented with a valuable diamond brace let.

The ship Malhorough sailed (or Loodoi from Oamara on Tuesday with r cargo o; wool and mutton valued at £22,572. Shi i akes 11,000 carcases of mutton and 156 i bales ef wool.

There are uow 117 of the unemployei at work at Dunedin.

Hi consequence of the barquentin* Coquette coming from Queensland ahi has been put in quarantine at Dunedin The vesael had left before cholera hac made its appearance. At Dunediti the cricket match between Christ's College (Canterbury), and thi Carisbrook Club, was won by the College by 21 runs on the first innings. Oaria brook made 78 in the first innings, an< 120 in the second. The College sccei 99 in the first, time not permitting o playing a second., A disastrous fire occurred at Lumsdei (Southland), between two and thr» o'clock on Tuesday morning, watting ii lh« destruction of Brndmore's store, st cV und dwelling; the Colonial B ink ; Maley 1 shop and contents; Stanford's store dwelling and contents; Hud Fraser' blacksmith's shop and tools. The in surances were :—South. British, £1420 Victoria, £195; and Naw Zealand, £750 The fire originated between the Band am Maley'B store.