TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1449, 2 January 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

William Johnston Parker, stoker of the New Zealand Timber Company, Auckland, was found dead alongside the engine on Wednesday morning. Hie head and body were covered with blood, having been mutilated by the machinery. A man believed to be A. Buchanan, of Onehunjja, was killed on the railway afci Newmarket station. He fell between the! carriage and platform, and his thighs and back were broken. The buoy at the French Pass has gone adriit, but has been recovered and moored in a bay about two miles from the Pass. . :!

Messrs J. C. Fitzgerald and T\ K. McDonald, two of the examiners of t >» essays on " The present condition ana future prospects of the industries of M'ftw Zealand," will commence their task fottjliwith. The Hon. Mr Lnm-tch will not be able to look through any of them until after his return from Australia. It is expected that the result of the comoetition will be made known about the end of next month. It. is believed that the Government, intend to allow delayed telegrams, to be sent on Sunday nights. At the meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board on Thursday it was decided to c.ill the attention of the Government to the dangerous inshore current which sets in along.the Ninety Mile Beach, and which had evidently something to do with causing the stranding of the Hudson? The Board drew the attention 'of th-' Government to the currant twelve months ago, but nothing has seemingly been done in cousequenoe, as it appears neither the latest charts nor the Nw Zealand Pilot mention the current. The Harbor Board have decided on reorganising their Lyitleton staff. The Harbor Master leaves the service, receiving a month's pay for every year of office ks compensation. His duties will be performed by Captain Clark, who will not; however, receive an increase of salaiy. The tug and pilot stsff will be amalgamated. It estimated that the Saving effected will be £9OO a year. In the interprovincial tennis match, Otago v. Canterbury, the latter won three out of five events. In the ladieh' double, Misses Maitland and Bathgate won the first three sets from Misses Temple and Gordon. In the gentlemen's doubles Wilding and Milton more than reversed that order on Rose and Morrison, winning the first three sets. In the ladies' singles, Miss Temple won the first three set-". In the gentlemen's singles, play bftween Wilding and Morrison was ; very ■logged, but not particularly brilliant;. Wilding eventually wore down iu's opponent, winding his three sets. la the combined doubles play was very close,, and five sets were played, Miss Bathgate and Mr rlose winning from Miss Gordon and Mr Milton. •

' Duncan Wright, chief ftoward of the j stenmer Argyle, has been arrested at Auckland for alleged embezzlement of £25, the property of the Northern Shipping Company. Hi 3 defalcations are stated at about £166 altogether. Sfmuel Osborne Garrick was arrested with the same offender for obtaining money under false pretences. The gold returns for the Haurnki district, Thames, for the month of December amouojtto 7422 ounces. The total yiel 1 for the •year is 64,888 ounces, valued at £178,442.. A little boy named Fred Birch, t eon of a Blenheim resident, was killed on Thursday by a fall of thirty feet from the rocks in White's Bay, at a picnic party. A* little boy, son of Mr Gower, a butcher at Woodville, WelliDgtoD, m» rushed by a cow on Thursday morning. Its horn entered the child's eye, and* pierced the brain, making a fearful wound.

The lawn tennis open tournament at Napier, was concluded on Thursday. In singles, the Champion Oup fell t« Hudson, of Auckland, Fenwick, of Hastings, being second. Hudson and (Jarr, of Auckland, won the championship in the doubles, beating the brothers floss, ofOhristchiirch. In the doubles match, Visitors v. District, Hudson, of Auckland, and Ross, of Chriatchurch, were beaten by Fenwick and Begg, of Hawkes Bay, by three sets to one. This was a splendid game. The prizoa were presented by Mrs J. W. Williams.