TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1478, 11 March 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Sir George Grey and Dr Campbell were passengers to the youth per s.s. Rotorua on Sunday. Leckie, Ibe well-known footballer, won a 20-mile bicycle road race ,at Auckland in 1 hour 55 mins. Six started. The Rotorua Railway was opened far as Oxford on Monday. This enables the journey from Auckland to ( the Hot Lakes to be easily accomplished in one day. , . Major Atkinson acknowledging the receipt of a requisition asking him to address a public meeting in Auckland, states that be will be happy to do so, but is as yet unable to fix a date.

The masters and mates of the echoorler Mazeppa and brigantine Ransom,- which vessels were wrecked in the South Sea Islands several months ago, arrived from Honolulu by the Alameda. A chemist at Waipawa, named Moore, was convicted on Monday in the Magis trate’s Court of prescribing medicine and acting as a medical practitioner. He was fined £lO and costs. Notice of appeal was given. The Napier Harbor Board fired an eight-ton powder mine in the Bluff cliff to make room for the connection with the Breakwater. Fifty thousand tons of rock and earth were displaced. The explosion caused as much vibration in the houses as if an eaithquake had taken place. Geo. Dundas, a surveyor, shot himself through the left breast at Palmerston North on Sunday evening, with a breech loading gun charged with sho*. Eeath must have been instantaneous, the aoita being divided, and part of the substance of the left lung was blown away. The deed was commitied in deceased’s bedroom at his brother’s residence. Deceased had been suffering from melancholy, and at the inquest on Monday a verdict of temporary insanity Was returned. The Mount Gook WardLicebsinar Committee (Wellington) have closed one hot 1 and refused a license for another.

At the inquest on the body of Schnltze, at Wellington, the jury returned a verdict of “found dead, and that there is no evidence to show bow he came by his death.” Inspector Browne stated that Thompson (in custody on a charge »f concerned in the man’s death) had nude a statement which was similar t<> ihat made by a witness at the inquest, v 2., that he had a row with Schnltze, and shortly afterwards separated from him, both going in separate directions, Thompson was brought before the Resident Magistrate’s Coiut on Saturday afternoon and discharged.

Messrs White’s sawmills in Pigeon Valley, Nelson, wore destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The engine was saved, but all other plant, including a 'stack containing 10,000 feet of timber, was burnt. There was no insurance. On Sunday as the Galled Back Cornpuny was going into Greymouth by coach the hind axle bipke when eroding t he railopposite the quarry, The n heel flew off, and several ot the Company were thrown out on the road. Signor Benvenuti received a cut on the cheek, and was rendered pai t ally ineenible. Mr Minn received several contusions, arid all were much shaken. No one else was hurt. It has been decided to hold a band contest at Oamaru during the Easter Volunteer Encanipment. A specially arranged selection of music is expected trora Horne by the incoming ’Frisco mail, which all competitor* will be required to play.

The Government steamer Stella, with whitefish ova from America, arrived at Nelson at 6 o’clock on Monday. A sharper named Docherty was sentenced at Dunedin to three months' imprisonment for snatching a watch from a man who refused to shout for himself and another.

Bernard Hands, recently received from Kohimarama Training School (Auckland), was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for stealing twenty £1 notes from a fellow employee named Thompson at Dunedin. Thomson had won £2O at the races, and accused, who slept in tho same room, saw him pot £2O in his portmanteau. Accused went to the Industrial School at Caversham, and tcH the master be had been fortunate at the races. The master got him to give up the £2O, and then made inquiries, and found that Thompson had missed the money.

The annual statement of accounts of the Otago Harbor Board shows the revenue for the year to have been £41,662 and the expenditure £95,738, of which £60,025 was for works. The revenue showed an increase during the year of £7331. The liabilities amount to £646,401, and the assets, in cash and Value 6f plant, to £126,310, exclusive of land reclaimed and unleased of 40 acres, and 320 acres partly reclaimed. If the 40 acres unleaaed only bring half the rental of what is already leased, it would realise £36,000 per annum. Tho statement of expenditure since 1874 shows that all the money raised by loan (£550,000) has been spent on works, including £17,200 repaid, other expenditure having been paid out of revenue. The revenue for 1876 was £14,594, and last year it showed an increase over that sum of £27,068.