TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1447, 29 December 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A stern wheel steamer built for the, Wanganui RTer Snipping Company h-ui been launched. She is expecied to curry 60 tons of cargo, and ."team 12 knots. Speeches were made by the Mayor ami several of the Directors ; one of whom stated that the Government had ibeen 'induced to throw open three large blocks of land on the banks of the Wanganui River, which would have been inaccessible but For the steamer.

The Exhibition building has been,; sold by auction and realised £II,OOO ' < i , The Biibk of New Zealand at Hokitika shipped 2473 ounces of gold, value £9900, being their purchases to the end of laat week. , The Christmas washings are turning out extremely well, the . yield being above the average, the Mont D’O 'Cmi pany washing 267 ounces. The-Green-land Company have declared a 4< dividend.

A fire, probably caused by the match of a-cureless smokrr,-burnt a large niimh r of trees in the M aria Andre-vs Park, Bangiora. The loss will be heavy, a large sum having been expended by tlm Borough Council in laying-out the ipark. George Hayes, Steward ot the barque Merope, now at Lyttelton, committed suicide by taking laudanum and sulphuricacid. He had been - despondent ib.tely over soma alleged irregularities about hitstores.

At an inquest on a child named Hazfilhurot, whiiue death was supposed to have resulted from. S'lnatroku, it was found that the whole body, except u portion of the stomach, was covered with bruises. There were also one or two small wounds. The boy was living with a Mr and M>« Green, at Woodend,* having be- n 1 hired out from the Burnham industrial School. The inquest was adjourned. In the Supreme Court, Dunedin, an order for a special jury was granted in the libel case Stewart v. toe Wellington Evening Press, and the question of flxing the date of the trial was ordered to stand over till January At b. In consequence of the recent I fmcas between Captain Dargaville and ex-Drill Instructor Smith at the late parade; of the Dargaville Volunteers, Instructor! Smith has tendered a public apology to Captain Dargaville. Bush fires continue to rage in Napier. Mr White’s homestead, outbuildings, and all their contents, at Sherwood, Taka para, have been totally destroyed. The insurance is ,£I2OO in the Union* office. James Higgs’ homestead at Makorjetu has also been destroyed. It was .uninsured. The country is so diy that spires from railway trains are causing, fires,' and many settlers'and their bunds have-been out several nights grappling with tire fires which threatened to sweep I heir runs. Enormous areas of valuable bush have been destroyed. The Hoo. W. J. M. L trnach,' Messrs J, C, Fitzgerald and J. K. McDonald have been appointed as a board to judge (he prize essays on the present condition and future prospects of the industrial resources of New Zealand, and the best means for fostering their development. One gold medal and 20 guineas, one silver medal and £lO 10s, one brocze medal and £5 5s will be awarded, providing the essays reach a sufficiently deserving standard of excellence.

An old lady of 66, Mrs Mary Dee, formerly of Otago, 1 died in Nelson, from the effects of “ Rough on Rats,"

In Crow'* cmo, Hit Honor Judge Williams thought ha was wrongly sent to gaol as no order ..h ad been made or was ordered to be made under nectioa 171 of the Bankruptcy Act in the first'instance, nnd that ho was wrongly detained in custody, bo'h on the ground of the second order, which was bad on ila face, and if it were good it was hot made til I long after the imprisonment commenced, and could not take effect nunc pro time Prisoner was discharged. -- No cob(b were allowed.

The Sandfly has arrived at Auckland, from Tonga, bringing the Rev. Shirtley Baker, PreraAr of the Kingdom of Tonga,

James Brown, ! aged = ten, fell into the fire, at Aratapu., (Auckland), in a fit. His face was dreadfully burned, and bis recovery 1 it hopeless.

Griffiths, who was (injured in the-coach accident at Napier, died in the Hospital on Saturday. A verdict, of *• Accidental death” was returned at the inquest. The jury recommended the pario deal inspection of coache»j as the’ .accident?-was attributed to,’ the fact that tbeleather bad worn off the.break.

At the Kakanui races' on Saturday, George Robertson and the horse Fisfihook were disqualified for twelve months for pulling iu the Maiden Piute.