TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1472, 25 February 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A representative meeting of Catholics at Auckland was held on Monday, to arrange for a fitting reception to Cardinal Moran.

Cardinal Moran, and the Bishops of Adelaide, Maitland, Dunedin, Auckland, and Wellington were the guests of His Excellency the Governor at lunch on Monday at Wellington.

A man named Mullane was sentenced to one month's hard labor, and ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for six montha, for striking the editor of a Wellington paper a violent blow in the fane, as he was walking along the street reading a paper. Defendant pleaded the paper had commented on the Parnell party, but he was really instigated by a third party, who has a grievance against the paper. The inquest on the body of Hollyinao, whose death resulted from the collapse of the Nile Street Bridge, Nelson, was continued on Monday, and lasted all day. The evidence of one expert blames the Inspectors and the workmanship ; that of Mr Ackcrsen finds fault with the design and manner in which the bridge was allowed to he erected. Judgment stands further adjourned till Thursday, Paddy Dunn, William Noble, and Charles Hinney, three of the men who the police assert have recently come, over from Sydney, and have the reputation of being sharpers, were fined £‘2 each at the Christchurch Police Court on Monday morning for damaging property in a house of ill fame. They were under the impression that they had squared the matter by paying the proprietress £5, but the police took the matter up. At the meeting of the United Charitable Aid Boards, Christchurch, held on Monday, two petitions (one from influenihil residents in Christchurch, including the Mayor and the Chairman of Old Charitable Aid Board, and the other from 50 Lyttelton residents) were presented praying for a reconsideration of the Board’s resolution to dismiss Mr and Mrs Ritchie, master and matron of the orphanage. . No reasons had formerly been publicly given for the Board’s action, but on Monday Mr Nalder, Chairman of the Orphanage Committee, said that Mr Ritchie had been iusubodinate to such an'extent that the Committee could not work with him. As Mr Ritchie had never been heard by the Board in explanation, it was decided that he be furnished with a statement of the reasons for his dismissal, and it was understood that he should be given an opportunity of replying.^ The New Zealand Shipping Company have received the following message “London, February 2Lt, R.M.S., Raupohu arrived all well at Plymouth to-day with her frozen meat in good condition ; the Rangitikei has sailed for the Bluff and Timaru, and the Allanshaw has sailed for Auckland. Miss Georgia Smithson delivered a lecture on Monday night at Christchurch on the West Coast Railway to an audience of upwards of 2000 persons, in the Tuam Street Hall. The Mayor of Christchurch presided. The lecture, which consisted of a reiteration of the arguments formerly used in favor of the construction of the line, was very well receive l , and a hearty vote of thanks was passed to the lecturess.

A lumper named Magnus Johnson sus tained severe injuries by falling down the hold of the Hawea at Dunedin. The conversazione at the Drillslied, Wellington, on Tuesday night, in aid oi the expenses of Cardinal Moran’s visit, was extremely successful, from 1200 *o 1500 p op’e being present. Oadind Moran and five Bishops anive I first, a n't the Governor and suite afterwards. ! h Governor was received at the door hy thc'erical dignitaries. The surplus, if any, wiT bn divided amongst ti o poor of the city. There were many objects, parti cul-uly pictures, of considerable value, lout for the exhibition.

The temperance parly in Wellington have decided; o appoint a deputation to wait on the Government with the object of getting the provisions of the Licensing Act more rigidly observed in the city than is said to be the case at present. The Temperance Conference commences on Monday, and amongst the delegates present will be Sir Wm. Fox and T. W. Glover (Wellington), Messrs A. Speight, K. Neal, Cox and Carr (Auckland), Lock (Nelson), Sasthorpe (Wairarapa), J. R. Jago, i). C. Cameron and F. Fulton (Dunedin), J, Harding and R. Harding (Napier), C. S. McDowell (Creymouth), and Andrew J. Smith (Christchurch). About half-past eleven on Tuesday at Christchurch John Taylor, plumber, of the firm of Taylor and Oakley, got into dispute with his next door neighbor, John Midgley, about a fence which the latter wished to erect between their premises, and which Taylor objected to as unsightly. From high words they came to blows, and-were separated by Oakley, Taylor’s partner. They closed again, and Midgley fall, striking his head against the wooden kerbing of the footpath. He lay still, and was taken into his house. Dr Patrick came, but the man died almost immediately. It does not appear that he was knocked down. Taylor gave himself up to the police immediately. It does not appear that he was previously at enmity with Midgley.

Jesse"PayCC, 17 years old, was drowned while bathing in the lvSiteflaJßiver, North Canterbury, on Sunday. --- At the meeting of the Oamaru Harbor Board on Tuesday a statement was read showing that 358 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage'of 113,786 tons, had entered the port in 1885, against 317 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 70,367 tons, in 1884. In connection with the accident by which Captain Sewell, Harbor Master at Oamaru, had his leg broken, it has been decided to hold an ent|iiiry into the circumstances. Captain Sewell is not satisfied that those i in charge of the tug Koputai took proper precautions on entering the port with the ship Turkina in tow. A girl, eleven years of age, was brought up at Dunedin on Tuesday charged with stealing a number of articles from shops. She had been sent with a message from the country by her mother, but came on t’i town, and, going round the street? took an umbrella, two books, and a bag from different shops. She was ordered to come up for sentence when called on. H.M.S. Opal arrived at Suva from Samoa on the 12th. She reports that there is still a strong feeling between the English and the Americans on the one hand and the Germans on the other, King Mahetoa visited the Opal, and on leaving was saluted with 21 guns. This is significant, as the Opal is no saluting ship, and the Germans are said to have been angry at it. The Opal is to proceed from Suva to Sydney. A boy, six years old, named Wood, was killed at Hamilton (Auckland) while playing with a Cambridge roller.