TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1483, 23 March 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A case of tuberculosis is reported from Wairarapa, and a veterinary surgeon has been despatched from Wellington to report on it. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Harbor Board on Friday afternoon, the Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said it was gratifying to the Board to observe that the works on the wharf during the year had resulted in a profit of £5910, or an increase of £2600 on that of the previous twelve months. James Smith, formerly an hotelkeeper at Wellington, and who left for England by the Tongariro, has been adjudicated a bankrupt. Government ara making enquiries into the recent narrow escape of the goods train at Stuart’s Gully, near Christchurch, with a view of rewarding the two young men who signalled to the driver to stop us the engine was nearing a bridge approach, which hud been washed away by the flood.

At a meeting of the Cabinet on Friday afternoon, it was decided to recommend to His Excellency the Governor that the New Zealand war medal be awarded to Colonel McDonnell and Captain Gilbert Mair, for services in the Maori war. Dr Hassell has been appointed to take permanent charge of the Wellington Hoi* pital. The Bootmakers’ Union hare placed in the hands of the Auckland masters & statement of wages to be paid throughout the city, also a series of resolutions dealing with day labor on lines accepted in the South. A week’s notice has been given, and a strike is imminent. The manufacturers state that the condition of trade will net admit of their conceding the demands.

Captain Corbett, J.P., who had sentenced a man named Mulvany to a lengthy term of imprisonment for attempting to set fire to Kirkwood’s hotel at Cambridge was on Thursday night knocked down i y Mulvany, at Auckland. As Captain Corbett has lost a leg he was unable to pursue his assailant, who was, howetifl subsequently arrested and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. At a meeting of the United Hospital and Charitrble Aid Board, Auckland, it was decided to levy a rate, and let the matter be tested in a court of law, Mr Locke, M.H.R,, addressed his con* stltuent* last Thursday night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence.

Ah Chee, a Chinaman, at Naplef, who was discharged from the Hospital on Tuesday last, hanged himself on Thursday night. The deceased was leprous, and threatened suicide if discharged. On being sent away, he was given money to pay his railway fare to where he was living. Instead of going there he went on to the Petane Beach, to an old disused shed, where ho was found on Friday morning, hanging from the rafters, lie was in the Hospital since last July. Ellis Bros., of Motueka Valley, Nelson, were charged by Mr A, Blundell, Sheep Inspector, with a breach of the Sheep Act in not keeping rams from ewes in an infected flock. Defendants were fined £3O. George Collman of the same place, charged with not giving notice to the Inspector that the sheep were irfecled, was fined £lO.

What is looked on as a very important discovery has been made in No. 2 United tunnel of the Champion Copper Mining Company, Nelson. The vein was cut off by a fault 125 fett from the mouth, and the manager has been seeking a continuation of the ore body, and has now met with a strike of ore richer in quality than before. Mr Henrick has not yet proved whether it is a large body, but the indications of opening large ore bodies in this direction are said to be highly favorable. The discovery of real ore between the Champion and United working! ia looked rjrtft'ona of the greatest importance. It is said that '

smelting will .commence next week. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at Oamaru, closed on Friday. On Wednesday evening Mrs Croft was acquitted on a charge of having set fire to her house with intent to defraud the Colonial Insurance Company. It was stated in evidence that the accused bad advised the fife of the landlord of the house to get it insured, as she did not intend to pay any more insurance pretniums. A number of articles belonging to the accused bad also been found secreted in a shed after the fire. For the defence it was shown that ill-feeling existed between the accused and the wife of the landlord. On Thursday a verdict was given for the defendant, in the libel case brought against the Rev. Seth Smith, by a young man named Moore. The action arose out of a document sent to a Committee, .of the Blue Ribbon Army stating that the prosecutor was in the habit ot frequenting brothels. The jury found that the defendant was not guilty of publishing the libel, and that the alleged libel was true.

The Premier received a telegram from the Agent-General on Saturday morning, intimating that the French Government ictend to transport 1000 convicts at an early date to the Isle of Pines. The Native Minister left for Wanganni on Saturday morning. The R*v. Mr Habens has been appointed Secretary of the Education Department, and will take up bis post immediately on the retirement of Dr Hislop. In connection with the statement of the London Times that New Zealand intended to borrow only one million and ahaif this year, Government state that the amount which will be required has not been settled. They, however think the statement may have been published on the authority of the Agent-General, who probably informed the Times that not more than one and a-half millont wsuld be required this year. A requisition to the Mayor of Christchurch is in course of preparation asking him to convene a public meeting for the purpose of considering the setion of the Charitable Aid Board in summarily dismissing the master and matron of the Orphanage. A child aged 11 months, named Ford, was poisoned at Wanganui on Saturday morning by taking Rough on Rats. Its mother before going to bed placed the poison on the fireplace,, and the child crept there before the fire was lit and picked it up. The child is not expeeted to recover.

The Cabinet has decided to refuse the terms proposed by Mr Pender to New Zealand re joining in the subsidy to re* if'tce cable charges on European lines. The Government considers the propos'd reductions paltry, and Is decidedly opposed to the extension of time asked for. Ministers are of opinion' that the colonies diould make a decided effort to reduce rates between England and Australia to a fraction of the present charges. . Mr Burke, of the Dublin Brewery firm, promises to give a £IOO cup to the Jockey Clubs of every town he visits.