TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1500, 1 May 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the hslf-yealy meeting of shareholders of the B ink of New Zealand at Auckland, the Chairman, Dr Campbell, sai' 1 the sensational rumors as t > Hops defalcations had hut a slender foundation. They could not exceed ten to fifteen thousand pounds, and might prove much less. Mr Stewait, manager of the Melbourne agency, was appointed to inspect the Australian branches. Te Wheoro has telegraphed to Sir George Grey asking him to arrange foi a meeting with Tawhaioat as early a dale as possible. Sir George Grey assented to the meeting, which will probably take place in Auckland during this week. The prosecution of Edward Moore, coxswain of the Waitemat* racing crew, for alleged larceny as a bailee at Auckland, was withdrawn, the remedy being a civil •ne. It is stated that the Maniopoto and several other leading tribes have consented to apply to the JNutive Lands Court to ascertain the legality of the titles now claimed by them. In the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, the charge of alleged perjury against W. F. Ross was dismissed, the prosecution offering no evidence. A young man named P. H, Bodd lately in the employ of Lyon and Blair’s stationery department, was arrested at Wellington on Wednesday afternoon, on a charge of forging the firm’s signature foi various amounts. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society to-day Mr S. 0- Farr read a prospectus which he proposes to send round the colony, asking for support in the formation of a New Zealand Piscatorial Society. The object is to secure the cooperation of all colonists interested, so that the importation of ova of various’ kinds from England, its hatching out and distribution throughout the colony may be vigorously carried on, A man named R. Mcßae, who was at work at the smallpox hospital, on the sand hills reserve, near Christchurch, died suddenly on Wednesday morning. He was seized with a fit at about half-past eleven.

At a sale of the Middle Park Company’s yearlings, held on Wednesday, seven youngsters were sold for 765 guineas, an average of 109 guineas each. The shipment of frozen meat exported by the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, per the s.s. Rimutaka, consists of 6022 carcases of mutton, 2136 of lamb, ami 240 quarters of beef. The total weight of the shipment is 521,372 pounds. T. T. Gamble, American consul, dhd suddenly of apoplexy in his office at Auckland on Thursday afternoon. The Auckland boot raanufactorer* have rejected the men s ultimatum, and negotiations are broken off. The master.-* -ire inviting the men to work on a revised scale of wages.

The net proceeds of the concert, at Wellington given in aid of the sufferers by the Taiarca disaster, amount to £240. Mr W. Brassey, of Wanganui, and Messrs D. Pollan and J. A. Smith, of Napier, have resigned their appointmentas justices of the peace. A despatch from the Secretary of State for the colonies, saying Her Majesty has assented to the Acts passed in 1885, is gazetted. . . ~ , „ A despatch, stating that the Marshall, Brown, and Providence Islands, in the Pacific, have been placed under the protection of the German flag, is also gazetted. Five informations were on Thursday sworn against a well-known and heretofore highly-esteemed resident in Wellington, charging him with having embezzled sums amounting in the aggregate to about £I2OO, received by him in his capacity as local agent fora fire and life insurance company carrying on business in that city, but having its head-quarters in Aualra ia. The late census returns show the population of Wellington city to be 30,208, Hutt County, including suburbs and country districts, 10,090. Albert Fletcher, a farm servint, was killed by falling over an embankment at Kawarra, Wellington, The annual meeting of policy holders in the Government Insurance Association is fixed for the 17th June, Nominations f-.r directorships close on May l7>h. Toe question of the reconstruction of the Board will engage the atteniion of policyholders shortly after the annual ne- tioj. The net cost of ibe recent New Zealand Exhibition was £BSOO,

The populationof Wsltaki"‘Com ty is 7672, and not 6955. There is an increase of 717 compared with 1881. In hearing a charge at Dunedin against a man inamed Smith for assalting a constable when arresting him, Mr Carew, R.M., > > pointed out that the Police Offences Act had repealed previous statutes respecting this offence, and as it now stood a fine of £5 or two months ’imprisonment was all the punishment which could be inflicted. The punisnment was, therefore, less than . could be given for ordinary assault on a citizen or constable hot on duty. The charge against Smith, who had broken a bone in the leg of a constable, was remanded, A terrible fatality occurred at the Thames about three o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, by which two miners, named Thomas Casley and Hugh Hill, employed in the Caledonian Company’s ■ mine, lost their lives. It appears that while working at the lowest level of the mine, the gas rose suddenly, and they were overpowered by it they were able to escape. They were in the gas for two and a-half hours, and expired a few minutes after being brought to the sur* •'ace. Both were well known and greatly respected, and the sad affair Ins ca*t quite a gloom over the whole community.