TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1473, 27 February 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cardinal Moran was entertained by Either Treacy at Maslerton on; Thursday. A requisition to Major Atkinson asking him to address a public meeting at Auckland is being signed. 400 signatures are already appended. i A cablegram has been received at Auckland stating the barque Caberfeidh, which arrived at Melbourne from Manukau Heads, had lost her boatswain, named Sullivan, who was washed overboard on the passage. At a meeting of the Government Insurance Association Board at Wellington, on Wednesday afternoon the repoit of Messrs Beatson and O’Connor, of the Public Works Department, to whom the competitive designs for neW insurance buildings were referred, was discussed, when the first premium was (awarded to Mr Joshua Charlesworth of Auckland, and the second to Mr Thomas Turnbull of Wellington. It was also decided that at present only that part of the buildings tor which tenants have already been secured is to be constructed. Mr Turnbull has informed the General Manager that he declines to accept the second premium, preferring to retain the desigh as bis own property. At the Women’s Christian Temperance Union at Wellington on Wednesday ihe following officers were elected for the General Union of New Zealand : -Presi dent,' Mrs Dudley Ward ; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs Brrtr ; Recording Secra(ary, Mrs Troy ; Treasurer, Mrs O. A. Baker. The day’s sitting was occupied in considering the question of the revision of the constitution of the Union, which was adjourned till Thursday. \ puMic meeting in connection with the Union was held on Wednesday nigh!;, when Mrs Dudley Ward delivered an address on the work of the Union in Newi Zealand, and Sir William Fox one on the operation of similar institutions in America. At a meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Oonvei t on on Thursday, Mrs Clark read a paper on “Woman as a citizen of the state.” It was resolved That The Temperance Herald, The Leader and The Sentinel be the organs of the Union, that Mrs Dudley Ward be the Superintendent <pf the organisation, and that Mrs Wright be Superintendent of literature.”! “ That the Union strenuously oppose the provisions of the Contagious Diseases Actalso by tbe unanimous vote of thje Convention, “That on the meeting of Parliament this union requests the Premier to support a Bill granting the suffrage to woaien.” The Constitution of the Union was adopted, it being » modification of that in vogue in similar; institutions in England and America.

Sir George Grey addressed the citizens of Auckland on Friday evening. It is understood he will leave next week for the South, and give addresses first at Invercargill, and afterwards at other centres of population in the South Island. Cardinal Moran left Wellington for Wairarapa on Wednesday, en route for Napier, where he will make a brief stay, and then proceed to Auckland.

At a meeting of the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company, the balance-sheet, which showed a loss of nearly £9OOO, was adopted. It was decided to carry on business with the understanding that shareholders are to be again called together in May, to consider the Company’s operations between the present time and that date. The difficulty with reference to the rejected material in connection with Scott Bros.’ locomotive contract has been settled on terms which are said to be satisfactory both to the Govsrnment and the contracting firm. The nature of the arrangement has not transpired. The work in connection with the contract, which has been suspended for the past few weeks, was resumed on Wednesday morning, and will now be pushed on vigorously* An enquiry intotba circumstances attending the burning of a six roomed house on the 30th January last, was concluded before ,'the district coroner at Oainaru on Wednesday. The evidence of two witCroft (the lessee of the alleged ,to have stated that to continue paying that they should not be astonished if Ihe house was burnt down—was taken along with other evidence. The furniture wae insured for £175 in the Colonial Insurance Company. The jury returned a verdict that the house was burned down by some person unknown to the jury, for the purpose of defrauding the insurance companies. Tue cricket match between the Lancaster Park (Chnstchurch) Colts and the Grange Club, at Dunedin, was won easily by the latter in one innings. The Grange m-ide 108; Lancaster Park 21 and 20. A meeting of the Central Board of Health washeldat Wellington an Thursday in consider the necessity of quarantining vpt'sela from Fiji in consequence of the prevalence of Dengue fever among the islands. After discussion it was decided not to quarantine vsssels, as the disease is peculiar to Polynesians and is said not to be contagious. The Premier, will, however, consult Dr McGregor ou the subject. A full meeting of the Cabinet will bo held early next week. A meeting of the Executive Council was held on Thursday, the Governor presiding, The business was purely of a formal nature.

A quantity of material for Whitehead torpedoes and a small consignment of small arms and ammunition is on board the ship, Invercargill, which is expected at Wellington daily. No information has been received respecting the submarine requisites and the great bulk of th>* smallarm ammunition. Despatches received state that the two six-inch Armstrong guns and the two eight-inch guns intended for the New Zealand defences have been delivered in London and will shortly be shipped. It is expected the others will be completed shortly. No word has been received of the shipment of the field guns

William Brooks was fined £25 and his son £5 at the R.M, Court, Christchurch, on Thursday morning, for netting trout in the river Selwyn.

Dr McGregor, Colonial Secretary at ' F ji, who has been attending the Federal Council at Wellington, has arrived at Wellington and has had a private interview with the Premier. The Alameda left San Francisco for Auckland on the 14th instant, one day late, with the English mails of the 28th January, and the Mariposa arrived at San Francisco on the 22nd instant, time table with the Colonial mails of 2nd February. The Government have received a telegram stating that the New Plymouth district is clear of scab. The only infected run in JNew Zealand is the Clarence Run, which has been taken possession of by the Government for the purpose of clearing it.

On Thursday the Premier informed a deputation from the Wellington City Hospital Committee that in every instance when loctl bodies declined to contribute the amount assessed them for hospitals md charitable aid, snch amount would

be deducted from tbe Government subsidy to such bodies.

At the meeting of the Charitable Aid Board, Christchurch, on Thursday, Mr Htchev, master of the orphanage, tendered an explanation. With reference to the charge made against him by the Orphanage Committee that he had treated them with disrespect and neglected to furnish certain returns, he explained that his assistant master had been ill since Novem-

ber, and he had been positively unable to •trepare the returns. He apologised for my unintentional apparent disrespect to the Committee. The Board recommended the Committ-e to reconsider the matter with a view of seeing if they could not possibly rcinsttte Mr Uitchey. The Bevs. Boddington and Mason, the Church of England missionaries from the an ther church, were welcomed by Bishop Harper at a service in the Cathedral at Christchurch on Thursday evening. Two men, Arthurson and Hall, were charged before MrOarew, K.M., Dunedin, wi'h playing an unlawful game on the racecourse by means of a goose and marble. One of the accused is one of the recent arrivals from Sydney. After evidence and argument, Mr Carew decided that the game was within the scope section 7 of the Gaming and Amendment Act, and said it appeared to have been instituted by some one of legal ability and was outside the effect of the law. The men were afterwards on the racecource doing a large business.