TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1505, 13 May 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mr Macandrew addressed hia constituents at Port Chalmers on Monday evening. He stated that unless we borrowed from ourselves, we should restrict borrowing to £2,000,000 a year. At the inquest on the body of William rjtoupe, a Christchurch grocer, who died suddenly last Sunday,the evidence showed that the deceased had been almost continually drunk for several months. He fell into a drunken stupor on Sunday afternoon and never awoke. A verdict of death from intoxication was returned. On Monday afternoon, at Christchurch, the committee of the West Coast Railway League decided to continue its effort* until the information as regards a syndicate and company is absolutely confirmed, and Ihe actual work of constructing the railway begun ; the committee also decided that it was advisable lo postpone any demonstration for the present. A petition having been presented to the Governor praying that the Lyttelton Orphanage may be constituted a separate institution, the opponents of the proposal are now circulating a counter petition asking that the institution may remain under the control of the Charitable Aid Board. Mr J. Campbell, Head Master of the State School at Clinton, (Otago), died suddenly on Sunday night. The Taiaroa relief fund committee has been notified that Irvine, who was supposed to be single, left a widow and two children in Liverpool. It is now thought that all claims on the fund have been notified, William Sloan, a chemist at Whangarei, Auckland, was found dead in bad from an overdose of chloral. Harriman, the long distance champ'on walker, was a passenger by the Mararoa for Australia to contest with Edwards. In future the telephone exchanges in the chief towns are to be kept open continuously. The Defence Department has purchased from Mr P. Coffey the _ steam launch Gordon, and she is to pa employed in connection with defence works being carried on at Lyttelton harbor. John Stewart Reid, insurance agent, Wellington has been adjudged a bankrupt. The charge of emhezz'emcnt against Reid has been withdrawn, a document of release signed by the manager of the company, for whom Reid ectod as agent, being pm in. The Japanese warship Tsnkuba arrived t om Sydney at Wellington on Monday evening. William Noble, a temperance l<-cnirer has commenced a mission at the Auckland tabernacle. At the inaugural servie 1200 were present. Captain Tokushima and some of the officers of the Japanese warship Tsukuh . paid their respects to His Excellency th Governor, on Tuesday. The vessel remains here about ten days, and the ■> proceeds to Fiji and Honolulu and will probably return about October. The Tsutuba, saluted the British flag on Tuesday morning, and the battery at Kaiwarra replied. The Premier, Colonial Secretary, and Ministers of Justice and Mines, visited the warship in the afternoon.

in the Blenheim divorce case, Doreen v. Doreen and Dimante, a decree nisi, with costs against the co-respondent, was given, the mother to have the custody of the two youngest children. At Lawrence on Tuesday several Chinese were fined in sums ranging from £2O to £3O for playing fan-tan.

Constable Allen left for Melbourne on Tuesday with the warrant and other documents necessary for him to t'lre • r>t" custody W, H. Messenger, hotelkeeper, of Christchurch, who is charged deserting his wife and six children ias> February. This is the first occasion tti it the Fugitive Offenders Act has been utilised for the purpose of bringing to justice a person accused of such an offence who had levanted to another colony. At a meeting of the Dunedin Charitable Aid Board it was stated that a communication from the Premier’s office not tied that the Audit office objected to Government paying for children committed to an Industrial School prior to the Ist, October, 1885. It, was resolved to test the matter and resist the payment, which would amount to about £ISOO. It was resolved to defray the expenses incurred by members in travelling.to the meetings. At the statutory meeting of the Dunedin City Council, dissatisfaction was expressed with, the balance sheet, especially with the gas department, which showed no profit. The overdraft is beyond the legal limit, and it was decided to economise in every department.