TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1493, 15 April 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

On arrival of the Hawea at Auckland, Emily Walsh, a married woman, was arrested. She was accompanied by her husband, and is charged with absconding from her creditors, with a view to defeating proceedings under the Bankruptcy Act 1883, at Blenheim. She was admitted to bail by her husband depositing sureties. The accused is a ladylike young woman.

John Hennessy, a cellarman at Handcock’s brewery, Auckland, dropped dead on Monday. An officer of the Audit Department-left Wellington for Inangahiis on Monday with the view of taking action towards the prosecution of the former members of the County Council for illegal expenditure of county funds. A man named Thos. Allen, emp’oyed on Ruddiford’s station, Wellington, has been found drowned at Te Awilo.

A man named Anthony Francis died suddenly at Wellington on Monday. He was seen sitting on u stack of timber when he expired. It is feared that one of the Colonial Bank staff named Gowrings, has got lost in the country between Lake Manapouri and Lake Wakatipu, He left Dunedin on a walking tour on the 23rd March, and has now been absent a week beyond his time. At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Monday, true bills were found in all the cases. For illegally pawning, Alfred Horley was sentenced to three years. Peter Silvertsen, was charged with indecently assaulting his daughter, aged twelve years. He behaved rather strangely, and said, “ Before God 1 plead guilty, but not before man.” Lawrence Newman, a countryman, stated that many believed the prisoner not to be in his right mind. The jury, in finding prisoner guilty, said medical evidence should have been given, and censured the son and daughter-in-law for not taking steps when they heard conversations between the father and daughter. He was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. John Wilson pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny, and was sentenced to three months. George Berry, for stealing from the person, was sentenced to twelve months, Benjamin Rudd, for shooting with intent, was found not guilty. On Tuesday James Cherry for unlawfully wounding his wife was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. The charge of sheep-stealing against John Heenan was then proceeded with. A lad named Munn, a seaman on the barque Caberfeidh, now loading at Helenaville (Auckland), was killed by falling between the vessel and the wharf, and a barrel of water rolling on top of him. fie was a son of the late Captain Munn, who was drowned in the Agnes Bell two years ago. A man named Robert J. Wood, a miner, who has recently been working at the Champion coppermine, met with a fatal accident at Nelson, on Tuesday evening. He was coming into town and got a lift on a dray, when, on coming down Jenkeus’ Hill, he fell off and apparently hurt his head. He was able to walk to a trap, and aooke sensibly for some minutes when he sank down and was thought to be asleep. On arriviu" in town ho was pronounced to ba dead. A bushman named Moat, at SUter’s hush, Auckland, cut. his throat, and is net expected to live. Mr Ballance left Auckland for the Waikato on Tuesday. He received an invitation to meet Tawhaio at Alexandra. Sir George Grey’s birthday addn scontains 10,000 signatures. It was pi--sented yesterday, at the Theatre Hoy aI. Sir Julius Vogel is in communis.ui-. with the department*! officers oo il-. subject of laying out some reasonah.y sized fish farms around the coast of the colony, which can be let for '.he purpose of cultivating the oy.-ter and other suitab’e fisheries. At a meeting ot operatives of the bootmakers’ society, Wellington, a resolution was passed making a levy tf tun per ceni on all wages earned by members, and it was agreed to forward £2O to fellow-work men on strike at Auckland.

It is rumored that Mr War fell, R.M., Wellington, will shortly retire from the public service on his pension, [Mr Wardell states that at present he has no intention of giving up his magistracy and retiring on his pension.]

Beatrice Scott Borland, wife of John Borland, steward of the Kutorua, on Tuesday, at Dunedin, took an overdose of chloroform and died from the effects. She was 28 years of age. The evidence taken at the inquest showed the deceased had been in the habit of inhaling chlorefoim. The New Zealand Plate-glass insurance Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent for the year, and has carried forward a small balance. The Dunedin Bootmakers’ Onion has forwarded £3O to those on strike at Auckland. A million and a half acres, passed through the Native Lands Court at Taupo, Tongariro, andßuapehu, have been made a public reserve. . Altogether 307 men are now engaged on relief works at Dunedin. 22 more applied on Monday and 6on Tuesday. The present works are nearly completed. Alexander Todd, one of the early settlers, died on Tuesday, at Dunedin, aged 83. He arrived in 1849, having previously been a banker in Glasgow. The position of harvest matters in the Southland district is most deplorable, any short periods of sunshine being followed by steady rain, which keeps operations at a standstill. Mr Montgomery, M.H.R. for Akaroa, addressed his constituents last Tuesday night and received a vote of confidence. He was opposed to increased taxation, especially through the customs. The criminal sessions o£ the Supreme Court, Christchurch, were concluded yesterday, when Heinrich Mehlhopt, convicted of manslaughter, was fined £25. The fine was paid. A woman named Mary Fitzsimmons was committed for trial at Christchurch on Monday upon a charge of assaulting her husband in a very grievous manner. At Nelson the remains of a man were found in the bush on Sunday, supposed to be those of Joseph Lucas, who left the copper mine for Nelson on January 6 and has not since been heard of. A man named Bold was knocked down oa Saturday afternoon on the leland Bay racecourse by a horse, and badly hurt. Indignation exists at Invercargill re the proposed lease of the seal fisheries for twenty-oneiryears, which is considered tantamount ib granting a monopoly to the injury of nun who have often depended on it for their livelihood, A deputation to the M.H.R.’s of Awarua and Mataura resulted in the following telegram to the Minister of Lands:—“He tenders for leasing fisheries. Request no tenders be accepted until after meeting of Parliament. Antagonistic feeling here (Invercargill) is very strong.”