TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1503, 8 May 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Messrs J. L. Scot, R. M. P. Audjre* », and S. 0. Jelly, were nominated oariiW idnesday as cm didates for the Sydonb ira seat' |n the l House of? Repress esf j rendered , vacant by the relifgna ion of Mr White. -■•- ,i : rNe f iwer than 148 young blue sharks we|| ca light in the lower harbor at Dunedition Wednesday.’ / :'<-■< -,>/ fflwejslihy farmer named Wm. Hirst, o, Auckland, was fined £ls and an| coils, £ll, or onoymonth’s imprisonment fdr cruelty to animals. The cruelty consisted of buying pigs in the market and'instead of branding theru'ecoring them wjjth pocket knives, Tbeigasbes in their hicks are seven and eight inches respectively. Tiie simutaka left for London on Thursday, well freighted and crowded with passenger! Through some misunderstanding no-cooling chambers were built on the Kimulakii for the fruit exhibit for the Colonial Exhibition as promised, but' the exhibits were placed arnnag the ordinary cargo iii the hold. Shippers are indignantafjfcar the trouble and expense they had gobe to, and feel certain the exhibits wjU’rea’di London ruined. McGovern, who took suchi a prominent part in arresting Winhia, the murderer, in the Waikato district some years ago, has been appointed inspector in charge of the Kawbia district. •’ iThe ‘Defence Department has secured the a eefvice3 of a man thoroughly cen▼iersanb .with the laying of submarine mines, ‘and in a short time he will on Lis duties, aainstructor to the torpedo corps iu that special department. The appointee was until recently in the. service of one : «£i the Australian Governments. He was "one of the first-class instructors of submarine engineering at Chatham. At the Supreme'Court, Blenheim, on Wednesday, John Rose was convicted of common assault and sentenced to nine months, Philip Yates for indecent assault on a girl three years of age was acquitted. On Thursday Thos. O'Rorke was r acquitted ’on a charge of- horse stealing.- -The trial of Patrick O’Sullivan for stabbing John O’Sullivan (both parties being publicans) is now proceeding.