TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1466, 11 February 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A four-roomed house at Opolio (Otago) owned by Goodsier, was burned down last Sunday night by the upcettmg of a kerosene lamp. The premises were in. sured in the New Zea'and office for £525. After about two months’ of continuous dry weather rain began to fall at Dunedin on Monday afternoon. A laborer named Thomas Dunn, while discharging coal from the s.s. Wukatipn at Port Chalmers fell into the hold, His spine was found to be injured, and there are but slight hopes of his recovery. Alfred Henly lias been committed for trial at Dunedin for illegally pawning •jewellery which he ha I received to sell on commission. 15 pawn tickets were found uii him when arrested. The good.) for which he was p ommitfed were valued at £36. An application was made th t the pawnbrokers should receive compensation for the amounts advanced, hut the B-nch decided the inatfer should come before the Supreme Court. Mr Ballance arrived at Invercargill on Monday from the Waikawa and Eortro.se districts, with which he expresses him -elf highly p’eased. The Minister was kepi busy receiving deputations on district matters, and visiting the Garrison Hall, police camp, and other public places. He went to Riverton and Orepnke on Tuesday, and to Smwart Island on Wednesday. The Colonial Secretary intends to leave Wellington for the South on Thursday or Friday to attend a conference of the principal sheep and rabbit inspectors of the Middle Island, which is to he held at Timaru early next week, to consider various important matters connected with their business, more especially the increase of rabbits on the wild waste lands between Canterbury and Westland.

A lad named Cornelius Kean was

drowned near Waimate on Tuesday afternoon. He was bathing with two others, got into deep water, and, being unable to swim, was drowned.

Among thethroughpassengers for Sydney by the Mararoa was Mr A. vS. Halli Me, President of tbe California Cable Works, whose object is to promote the use of cable roads in the chief colonial cities, and study the trade relations between the colonies and llie States.

A girl aged ten, named Horner, was drowned at Ponannby (Auckland), on Sunday, while bathing. At a meeting of the fruit importers held at Wellington on Monday to discuss the ci’dlin moth question, it was resolved to take action against the Customs for the mode of condemnation of fruit ex the Mananouri, the examination not being sufficient. During the discussion it was pointed out that if one case was found to contain the moth the whole consignment was condemned without any further examination.

The United Charitab'e Aid Board, at Christchurch, at the instance of the Orphanage Committee, decided on Monday afternoon to dismiss Ml*, and Mrs Hitchie, the master and matron of the Orphanage, The reasons for this decision were not stated. Mr Ritchie has commonly been regarded as peculiarly suited for the position, and has made himself very popular since he obtained the appointment. A petition being in circulation to have the Orphanage constitnted a separate institute, the Board .appointed a Committee to draw up a rep'y to the allegations contained in the petition.

Samuel Haworth,son of Robert Haworth, was driving near Caverahara, Dunedin, on Saturday afternoon, when the horse was frightened by a kite falling on bis head. The horse bolted, and the occupant! were thrown out, Haworth receiving injuries from which he died a few hours afterwards. At an inquest on Haworth, a verdict was returned that the deceased met bis death accidentally. Attention was drawn to the fact that the deceased had been fully half an hour in the Hospital before he was attended to by Dr Roberts, the House Surgeon being absent. As it was shown that his heart was ruptured, and the delay had not accelerated death, the matter was not gone into at the inquest. The House Surgeon was said to have been absent at a tennis party. At the half yearly meeUng of the Bay of Islands Coal Company Mr J, C. Firth presided. The report showed a balance to credit of profit and loss of £660. Ho dividend was declared. The Chairman stated that the mine was flooded with storm water from the recent rains, and a quantity of mud had been canied down (he shafts and choked the pumps, stopping them. He did not conceal from the shareholders that if they were unable to clean the pumps the days of ihe mit jsw were over. Upon the treeing of the pumps depended the existence of the Company. If unsuccessful in this their struggle as a company would be finally terminated.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand met on Tuesday evening at the St. Andrews; Church, Auckland, The opening sermon was preached by ihe Rev, James Treadwell, the retiring President. The Pev. Mr Cairns, of Sydenham, was elected Moderator, and delivered a lengthy address.

Four of the Sydney “ magsmen ” were brought up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Tuesday, on a charge of playing the three card trick on the racecourse on Saturday. Two of them were fined £lO or a month’s imprisonment, one was discharged, and the other remanded. Cardinal Moran arived at the Bluff last Sunday night and was met by Bishop Moran of Dunedin, Ho came to Invercargill by special train and on Monday was publicly received in St. Mary’s Church where addresses cf welcome were presented. He went to Queenstown on Monday afternoon, whence he goes to Dunedin.

The Minister of Public Works states that the accident to the train on the Wellington-Masterton line was of a very trivial character. One of the bolts connected with the gripping apparatus broke, but the immense brake power possessed I y the engine in addition to that given i>y the gripping apparatus is sufficient of it-elf at any time to hold a train. More f an this, there is always on the brake vms a sufficient brake power to hold the tram safely on any part of the line, so that under no circumstances, if the men in charge use only common sense, could any serious accident happen, as was shown in this case when the f ain was at once stopped by the application of the b'akrs. The Arawa arrived at Hobart on Tuesday morning and is due at Port Chalmers on Friday. John Meenan, a farmer at Taier', was on Tuesday brought up on a charge of ■-■heep-stettling, but the Bench dismissed the case. Two other charges of a similar nat.iire are pending against the accused.

A man named Daniel McLennan was Li led on Tuesday on Lie Otago Central line by a fating boulder. ■ Hitch r Pa.tba,’’ — Quick, cotar’ -t« -iocs, d! annoying Kidney, Warmer i.r.d Ciun.rv Difleaua*. At Druggist*. Eemptborne, Prostt.'ilV., i OVrieteburcb . 2

A blacksmith named John Cooper, residing at Opawa, was found dead on I'nesday morning. lie had been suffering from dysentery for some days, but had no doctor. Rbmkdy fob TTahd Times.—Stop spending so much on fiae clothes, rich food, and cylo. Buy go.d food, cheaper and better o'ntbing, and stop the habit of using fx-.an m v* or quack doctors, or humhng medicine sal dot's you only harm, but put your trust in i iie greatest of all simple, pure remedies, American Oo.’e Hop Bitters, that cure always at a trifling cost, and you will sao better imei ooa g od health. Head Advt.