TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1463, 4 February 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Traces and Labor Congress has concluded its sittings. The Committee appointed to report on the manufacturing industries of New Zealand have presented a lengthy report. It concludes with statements thel most of the ordinary manufacturing trades are heavily handicapped by competition with the cheap labor of other countries ; that the industries of New Zealand require assistance, and that Government should he requested to obtain the appointment of a Parliu mentary Commission upon this important subject, and to take such steps as will effectually remedy the great and growing evils arising from excessive competition with cheap and foreign labor,

Frederick Appleyard has been committed for trial for indecent assault on a half-caste female at Paterangi (Auckland). John Turnbull was drowned while bf.thing at Cambridge, in the Waikato River, At the annual meeting of the Auckland Gas Company a dividend was ,4jclared of 8s 6d per share. Sir F. WhKhker and Mr Thomas Buddie were elected Directors. Five hundred and seventy-seven cases of fruit, apples and pears, by the Waihora from Melbourne were found to be diseased by the codlin moth and were not ■dloweiio be landed. They will be returned to the porta fiom whence they were shipped. A sensational dividend of £306 was paid on one horse at a race meeting at Napier on Monday, only one ticket being taken on him. Holland, a hand on board the Union Compaq's s.s. Boogum, is lying in a critical condition in the Hospital at Napier. Ho is suffering from severe burns. The appearances indicate that they are oil It.. .8. He, however, cannot tell bow he came by his injuries, and some atrango reports about the affair are current. The Napier Herald states, on the authority of a Christchurch correspondent, with reference to the severed hand mystery, that the hand was identified soon after it was found as the hand of a shoemaker, who had died at a Volunteer review a few days before. The authoiities were informed of the circumstances, but apparently no steps have been taken to verify the information. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Gas Company the report and balancesheet were adopted. A dividend of 15 per rent, was declared. The Hons Messrs Ballance and Richardson left Wellington for the South on Monday afternoon. The former will be absent three weeks, and the letter a fortnight. The Hon Mr Tole will leave for Auckland on Friday and be absent about a month. It is understood that New Plymouth has applied for prison labor from Wellington to be engaged on the harbor works there. The bookmakers deny the statement that they offered to purchase the rai#J horse Nelson for £4OOO and they offer to subscribe £IOO to the Wellington races if it can be proved they did. Kirwin, who received serious injuries by falling from theHutt train on January 23rd, died at the Wellington Hospital on Sunday night. At a meeting of Roman Catholics held

at Greymouth on Sunday, to consider the question of the erection of a new church, forty-four were present, who subscribed £679 towards the cost of a building site, the bricks and lime necessity being previously donated. The remainder of'tßa congregation will be canvassed, and the erection of the church begun immediately after. The Bootmakers’ strike is over at Christchurch. The employers have agreed to the proposal that the proportion of apprentices in the “ clicking” department shall be one to every three men. A decree absolute was granted at Dunedin on Monday in the divorce caseF. W. Newman v. Eliza Newman and A Slodden, The case was undefended. The civil siftings, which have lasted since the 11th of January, were finished on Tuesday, The hearing of the libel case Stewart v. Roydhouse and another was fixed for the 24th March. Water, owing to the long drought, is getting scarce at Invercargill, and several mills have stopped work for want of it for the boilers. The lessees of the powder magazine Harbor Board made a startlingS^j Qgure on j£ onc j a y night. 1 hey (say that reew. entwi the magazine, they found I!efc ha( j been fired into it, which end of a case, and scattered the over tie floor. The magazine contained ten tons of gunpowder and dynamite, and is erected on piles a few hundred yards from the most important part of the town, and abreast of the railway station. Frequent complaints have been made of bullets from ,the Volunteer rifle range crossing the river at great risk to life. A fire has occurred at Orakei, a native settlement. The chief Paul estimates his loss at £3OO. There were no insurances. Thirty-eight cases of apples ex Waihora, and a number by the Tekapo, have been seized at Wellington, being affected with the Codlin moth, Intellieence received at Auckland from the King Country states that Number 4 party of the prospectors, who got &s far south as this side of Tuhoa, have met with considerable opposition from the natives, and were turned hack. This party, with Nos. 3 and 5, in now atWaimehea waiting for ant vi* meeting,..which was to have been b* Id afeout the end of last week. Mr Wilkinson, the Native Agent, and Mr Orrnsby, Chairman of ihe Committee, have bin tent for to arrange m itteis. No. 1 party are now at Manakope, in the vicinity of Kawhia. No, 2 party are still at Mokau. So far not me of the parties have met with encouraging P’ospeits. The ground Nos. 2,3, 4, and 5 parties have been over is entirely of pumice formation. Nothing definite hat been heard so far from No. 1 puny. With reference to the correspondence with the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and contractors requesting th't the steamer Janet Nico! should not come •uither south than Auckland, the Government have now agreed to the request, the contractors undertaking to make two additional trips to the Islands per annum without extra cost, and to arrange tor prompt connections with the South hy the Union Co’s, steamers and fo keep, passengers’ faies and freight at contract figures. The Janet Nicol’s next trip to. lire Islands is on the loth from Auckland,, the Te Anna, leaving Dunedin on tha : iOth iust., connecting with her.