TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1503, 8 May 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The blood stock imported by the Stud Company from Sydney arrived safely by the Wairarapa. It is proposed to despatch the steamer Wellington to Western Australia with miners m route for Kimberley. At the anniversary meet : ng ot the Rechabites’ Society Sir George Grey delivered an interesting address on social topics. He warned the diggers going to the Kimberley goldfields against using spirit", as the climate would not admit of that. The hearing of the conspiracy case against the Justices of the Peace at New Plymouth was concluded on Wednesday evening. Mr Hutchison conducted the prosecution. Defendants were unrepresented by counsel. The case has created a great deal of interest, the public subscribing £35 to carry on the prosecution. The information was dismissed. At a meeting at Wanganui on Wednesday, it,was resolved to give Mr Bryce a pub'ic reception on his arrival, t • ba followed by, a banqu t. A coal trimmer named Robert Dudlow, fell i (f t‘>e Or-■ wait*, while- mi her voyage from Russell to Auckland, and waa drowned. At t’m enquiry into the recent standing of theTanpo the Captain and officers were acqirtted of blame. . The Town Clerk of Kaiapoi is missing, and as some of the books are missing, the Town Council have taken out a search warrant. Tenders are to be invited for the purchase of the plant of the Caswell Sound Marble C unpany. David Curie, publisher of the Hokitika Guardian has been committed for trial at the Supreme Court our five informations of criminal libel. Bail waa allowed in each case. The medicel stiff of the Christchurch Hospital have stated that it would be dangerous to the health of the patients to use the old wards at the hospital if-the buildings weie disturbed by miking alterations, in consequence of the contagion existing in the wal s, floors, Jtc. Notwithstanding this, the Hospital Board, at its meeting on Wednesday, resolved that as there was no probabili y of obtaining a grant for new buddings, they were compelled to make alterations in the old wards in order to meet 'requirements at the hospital.