TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1474, 2 March 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A Wellington telegram states that it is understood that Dr Hisdop, Secretary for Education, will shortly resign that position.

The Thames Valley and Kotoma Railway Company’s line to Litchfield will be open in six weeks. The statement that the Clarence run is the only infected one in the colony is incorrect. There are on the infected list in Kaikoura the following runs, viz. : Warden and Tyler (Clarence run), Greenhills, Mount Fyffe, Kincaid, Ottley Fells, Ke Kerangu, and Waipupa, independent of a large area of Grown land. Tophouae, in Marl borons'll, is also infected.

The first of the handicap sailing races of the Canterbury Yacht Club was he Id on Saturday. The wind was blowing strong from the N.E, There were seven entries, and the Neva (Galbraith) came in first, with Little Wonder (Sinclair) second, and Lola (McLellan) third. The Lota won on time allowance, with the Neva second. It was a splendid race between the three boats, one second being all the time between the Neva and the Little Wonder, the Lota being nine aeeonds behind the Little Wonder. A fire, supposed to ha caused by a spark from a railway engine, commenced on Friday morning on Mr Moore’s run (Glenmark) between Hawarden and Medbury station (North Canterbury). It swept over eight miles of the country, including Mr F, Perriott’s farm. It destroyed 4000 of Mr Moore’s sheep ; one mile of railway fence; three miles of telegraph poles; all Mr Periott’s fences and his stack of grass seed. Mr John’eon’s stacks were saved by ploughing round them. Notwithstanding the statement that the telegraph poles were burned, communication fiy the wires has not been shopped. The whole of Moore’s run was traversed by the flames, which were fanned by a strong breeze, and the loss of feed will be very serious to graziers, Joihn "fisher, a young man of twentypne, a railway guard at Brurnerton, got six weeks’ hard labor at Qreymouth on Saturday morning for stealing a watch from a man who had been painting at the station. Mysterious thefts have taken place at Brunnerton Station for some time past. Fisher was given an excellent character, or the sentence would have been much heavier.