TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1487, 1 April 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A lad named Walter Bernard was drowned in the Totara River (West Coast) on Sunday morning. Mr William White, M.H.R. for Sydenham, has forwarded hia resignation to the Speaker of the House, in, consequence of his medical adviser telling him be must retire for a year or two from public life.

The Christchurch Charitable Aid Board on Monday settled the dispute re the Orphanage, by giving the master, Mr Ritchey, his salary to April and £6B 15s, on condition of his leaving the institution on that date.

The Government have declined (o give the Dunedin unemployed more than £3 per day, and the City Council have been advised they cannot give legally the extra 6d per day promised. In order to keep faith with the men, the Mayor, Mr Barnes, will pay the money up to dole out of his own pocket. In reply to a deputation from the Amalgamated Carpenters Society at Dunedin, the Ho«. Mr Stout said Government would on no account encourage immigration of artisans ns cabled. They would only encourage the immigration of farmers with means.

Lawrence White, a prisoner undergoing sentence for the Nenthorne tr igedy, was charged with being mutinous at the Police Court, Dunedin, on Monday. The evidence given showed that he refused to go to work, that he laid down and made fun of the other prisoners when on the hulk in the eveniag. Ho was only to receive half rations, but lie sn itched full allowance, and refused to give it up. For the defence it was contended that the prisoner was asked to go to work on a face where a slip had taken place, but. offered to work elsewhere. The B-uch reserved its decision. There are 19 other charges Against the prisoner. The Pakekohe Railway Station (Auckland), has been robbed. The safe was ca r ried a quarter of a mils and thrown over an embankment. It contained £25, but the burglars failed to open it. William Askew, of Newmarket, died of an overdose of laudanum, administered accidentally. The Alameda, from Sydney to Auckland, made the passage in the fastest time on record, 3 days 19 hours. Judge Gillies arrived at Auckland by the Alameda from Sydney, and will take the criminal sessions.

The German squadron, Bismarck, 2800 tons, Griseoan, 2800 tons (frigate), and Olga 2170 tons (cruising corvette), under Admiral Knorr, arrived at Auckland on Monday. The squadron left Sydney on the 21»t inst., and made the passage in eight days under canvas. They remain here until the 9th April, and then proceed to Samoa. The total compliment of men is 1080, which will be included ia the Auckland census. The Minister of Justice is atiil communicating with the authorities, and endeavoring to arrange for Mary Morgan, who was elmged with infanticide at Oamaru, being tried at the ensuing criminal sessions at Dunedin. In the meantime, snould Mis Morgan apply for bail her own recognisances, the Government, it is understood, will not object to her being released on those terms.

The Auckland Maoris, not to be outdone by their white brethren, are getting up » congratulatory addrvss to Sir George Grey to be presented on his 74th birthday.

It is reported a man unknown committed suicide by jumping into the Waikato river at Cambridge last Monday night. Some of the Auckland oystermen not paying attention to the close oyster aeaaen the police seized several boatloads of oysters.

A private telegram states that the Tainui left Plymouth on the 27th March for Auckland direct.

Judge Williams in reply te an enquiry by the Minister of J ustice, expresses the opinion that the woman Mary Moran, under trial for infanticide, cannot be tried at the ensuing criminal sessions of the Supreme Court. The woman will therefore be released on bail, and in order to prevent a recurrence of any similar case, Mr Tole is communicating with Resident Magistrates, requesting them, in sending cases for trial, to order that they shall bo at the nearest and earliest Supreme Court. Mr W. L, Rees will probably address the Wellington Chamber of Commerce on Friday, with regard to his federation scheme. Mr Rees intends to address other Chambers in the South, and will than procead to England in order to bring his views before Trades and Labor Societies there.

Government are making enquiries as to the condition of the mulberry tree* in New Zealand, in order to ascertain whether tho present is a good time 10 obtain silkworms’ eggs. Tho Accident Insurance Company’s report shows a debit balance of £1599, due to the excessive competition and large expenditure in Australian busineaq which has been abandoned.

The police in Otago have effected the arrest of Thomas Gibson, ex-clerk of the Petone Town Board, who had been wanted for a considerable time on several charges of forgery, with intent to defraud that corporation. The accused was taken into custody while working on Mr Pollock’s station, near Balclatha, where he was employed for a number of months and where he was known as Thomas Courtenay. He is charged with having on the 16th February, 1884, forged the namft of F. McLeod to an order for £27 17s 4d, with intent to defraud th* Petone Board, and alto with having forged an cceplance receipt for £lO Is, on the 16th May, with intent to defraud the Board, He disappeared from Wellington about eighteen months ago, and > was only recently discovered on Pollock’s station.