TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1457, 21 January 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A meeting of policy-holders of the Government Life Insurance Association it called for Friday at Napier to consider the appointment of the Dunedin Manager, with a view to strengthen the hands of the elected members of the Central Board.

The Tainui sailed for London last night from Wellington.

The Margaret Galbraith, from Glasgow, was at Port Chalmers Heads yesterday. The special jury cases fixed for yesterday and to-day at Dunedin, had to be adjourned, in consequence of the Sheriff failing to serve jurors three clear days before the trial. Two days' sittings have thus been lost.

At Dunedin the Board has appointed Professor Salmond to the vacant Mental Solence Chair at L6OO a year, with fees and three years' engagement. The Synod object to the limitation. 11. M. S. Nelson will leave Wellington for Hobart on the 24th inst.

Fanny Vesey, a domestic servant, was drowned while bathing at Motuihi, Auckland on Monday. With respect to the site for the central prison, it is stated that should Wellington insist on the present work at Mount Cook being suspended, the prisoners at present incarcerated there will be distributed and that it is more than probable that Blueskin, in Otigo, will be the place chosen for the erection of a central prison. However, nothing will be definitely settled until a meeting of a full Cabinet. The Samoan chiefß had a long interview with His Excellency the Governor, and the Hons. J. Tole and J. Ballance, on Monday morning. The Government are taking action in the matter, but in what direction is not yet allowed to transpire.

The case of Ward v, the National Bank (Timaru), was before the Appeal Court Wellington, again on Monday, when application was wade for leave to appeal to the Privy Council. After argument, judgment was reserved. A rifle match was fired at Wellington on Monday between a team from H.M.S. Nelson and one chosen from the local volunteer corps. The bluejaokets proved victorious by 95 points, At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Tuesday the proprietors of the Napier Evening Mail recovered £l5O damages from the proprietors of the Waipawa Mail for libel. The libel consisted in a statement in the Mail to the effect that the manager of the News (Mr T. E. Sawkies) had presented a " crooked '• balance-Bheet tq the directors. At the Supreme Court yesterday morning the case of Sawkins v. Waipawa Mail, an action for libel alleged to be contained in the article upon which the previous day's prosecution was called on. Counsel for the defence intimated that the case has been settled, plaintiff accepting £IOO damages without costs. At Blenheim on Tuesday, Philip Yates, an old man, was committed for trial »t the Supreme Caurt for attempted rape on a girl three years old. Bail wa» allowed.

The glove fight at Christchurch on Tuesday evening between J. Pettingell, of Wellington, and H. Dunn, qt America, resulted, after four hotly-contented rounds, in a victory for Pettingell. Both men were severely punishad, The boxing was good, but Dunn was not in the best oondition.

Some quartz showing gold freely has been taken to Cbristchurch from the Wilberforce reefs. It was obtained sixty feet below the outcrop. A reef has been found on the Moa creek claim. It is about three feet thick. The stone looks promising, but has not yet been tested. The representatives of an influential syndicate from Yictoria are now making enquiries with a view of purchasing for raining Island Block, Moa JMat, At Punedin on Tuesday, a painter nauiad Parker fell fourteen feet through a skylight on to a pavement, but broke no bones, and is not thought to be seriously hurt.

The Dunedin City Council held a special meeting on Tuesday to consider the question of water supply. It was reported that at present there was 24 days' supply in the reservoir, and it was resolved to take steps to take a supply from the Water of Leith, which will give 100,010.0 gallons per hour, into the present mains.

The Hon Mr Larnach addressed the Peninsula of portion his constituents at Portobello, and received a vote of confidence.

William Grey, 45 years of age, for some time cook at Sir John Hall's station, Hororata, North Canterbury, was found dead on "Tuesday morning on a road crossing the Hororata river-bed. There were no marks of violence on \h& body. Deceased was a a'teady num.

TiiH Hon. the Premier left for Wellington on Tues'lay, Mr Larnach remains at Dunedin.

The iiutM.ii ': of Admiral Tymn, His Excellency Uie Governor, and members of the Government, which was to have been held in Chritftchurch, li>is beon abandoned, and it will now take place in Wellington early next week. L is unlikely that Sir Julius Vogel, who is ai Wsiweni, ' will be presert. The reason ascribed for change of progruann© is that Admiral Tyron is anxious to reach Hobart as early ub possible in order to bo present at a conference re the Federal Council proposals. At the conference in Wellington; naval defences, the Federal Council, and Samoan affairs will be discussed. The statutory meeting of the Bluff Harbor Board was held on Monday. The annua! statement of accounts was received and adopted. The Chairman showed that the revenue of the Board was fast increasing. He urged the necessity for a further endowment, as promised by the Premier ; and Mr Mitchell suggested that the Government should be asked to give a further grant of land, or, alternatively, to take back the previous endowment and take up the Board's responsibility to the bondholders. Dr Lemon on Monday afternoon received a cablegram from the Eastern Extension Company stating that the Company refused to agree to the terms decided upon by the New Zealand Parliament, and that the Company would hold out against any reduction in the cable charges. With reference tfl this subject, Sir Julius Vogei wires from vVaiwera as follows :—The Cable Company have sent cablegrams to the effect that they will rahe the tariff unless we give a subsidy far 10 years and then they will insist on a minimum of 10 words and a Press guarantee, or they will take a subsidy of 5 years without the proposed reduction of present charges. I have refused to entertain the proposition, and haye cabled to the Agent-General to ascertain the cost of miking and laying a new cable from the principal makers. The cost to the colony would, I believe, be less."