TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1480, 16 March 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The month’s escort for Otago amounts to £35,000 worth of gold. A Norwegian named Lygoart was killed yesterday at Kumara by a fall of earth. A girl named Mary Tobin, 14 years of age was drowned in the Arrow River. The town of Ross was flooded on Sunday, considerable damage being done. 750,000 acres have been put through the Native Lands Court at Wanganui during the last three months, The assets in the estate of S. G, Smith, butcher, Dunedin, are stated to be £6,715, and the liabilities £6,196. A Maori, known as “ Old Watson,” who took an active part in the Wairau massacre of June 17, 1843, was drowned at Havelock on Saturday.

The N.Z. Shipping Company have received advices that the Ruapehu left Plymouth for Port Chalmers on Saturday. An engine and combine, the property of Ward and Robinson, and a quantity of oats belonging to Mr Highf, were burned at Waddington on Saturday. Tt° machinery was insured, but nof the grain, and Mr flight loses about £lfiO. The Otago Caledonian Society held a secret meeting on Friday night to consider the defalcations of the late Secretary, which exceed £I2OO.

John Anderson, of Manukau (Auckland), died on from injuries received while bualrfalliDg. W. McKenzie, a bridge contractor on the Mount Somers Railway Extension Works, was fined 40s and costs for having assaulted David Miller, Oovernraent Inspector of Works, who objected to a piece of timber defendant wished to use. A man named Alex. Mitchell was arresled at Christchurch on Saturday charged with baVipg forged 4 a endorsement to a chtxiue on {he of N.Z., and with uttering the same. Mitchell is also charged with uttering valueless cheques in Wellington. M. McCarthy, of the Heatbcote Valley School, has beep appointed tpastar of ttye Roman patholic Boys 1 Sehqol at Timaru, A man named Jas. Hamilton was arrested at the Waian, North Canterbury, on Saturday evening, charged with having obtained spirits to the value of over £209 from Mr T. Taylor, a Ohri®*Chur«u mer- ! chant, by means of false pretences,

Professor Thomas, of Auckland, has been enquiring into tha existence of parasites riuioug the sheep in the colony. He has just returned from (lie South Island, and is going up the West Coast of the North Island. The East Coast the Professor has already visited. The result of his observations is that, in his opinion, 1 the colony is singularly free from any parasitic pests. The season has been eminently unfavorable to ringworm, etc. The other day Sir William Fox sent a letter to the New Zealand Times, enclosing another which charged the licensee of a certain hotel with permitting gambling and usiog false dice and marked cards. The hotel was said to be the same as the one which formed the subject of a Parliamentary enquiry some years ago, and this pointed out the Pier Hotel as the house aimed at. As soon as the letter appeared it was seen Sir William had made a mistake, and he explained that, writing from memory, he had mistaken the hotel, having really had another building in his mind. Downes, the licensee ot the Pier Hotel, has placed the matter in his solicitor’s hands. The writ against Sir William Fox will, it is understood, be for £5,000.