TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1514, 3 June 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Work was re-nmed at the Aucklan 1 boot faotod-s on M Mr Noble’s Gospel Temperance mission ; ,t Auckland closed on Mmi-hiy night with a crowded house. A presentation was made to him by Urn committee. He proceeds to Wellington on Wednesday,

The she p insn-c'or r-qrons that die Norh 1 alan I is entirely tree t o n scab, and that, the only infecod pm« in New Z aland is the northern p ul of the Middle Island.

At Masloiton the Rev J. C. Andrew, for failing to clear his station of rabbits, was lined £SO and coals.

The Canterbury College Board of Governors resolved on Monday to forward £l5O to Professor Von Haast to enable him to visit lire European cities in order to obtain works of art and specimens for the museum

At a mooting of the Flood Relief Committee at Christchurch on Monday, a resolution was passed affirming the desirability of re-establishing in some form the old Benevolent Association which had been previously supposed to be superseded by the Charitable Aid Board, The Invercargill Borough Council, as a harbor board, have finally accepted the under of Kincaid and McQueen for a i arbor dredge. The hull of the dredgo ■ < to be of mild s'ue). At an unemployed meeting at Auckland, it was resolved to ask Government, through the Mayor, to provide work for 200 men, or pay their passages to Kimberby. At a meeting of the Auckland members "t Wellington on Tuesday morning, there were about 15 present. Resolutions were passed to the effect that, the sum of £50,000 set down for the North of Anck'and line is quite inadequate, considering dint it is a trunk line, and a committee ■if seven was appointed to wait on the Government and endeavour to get the amount increased.

Auckland ammunition ifc now being supplied to Government depots at the rule of 2000 rounds pm- day. It appears from the statement of the

pilot that the Russian warship Yestnik, which sailed far Auckland on Tuesday afternoon, proceeded through Cook Straits instead of taking the East Coast route. A man about 35 years of age was drowned on Tuesday while crossing the liauui ihana, at Te Whiti (Wellington), in a canoe, A Wellington pawn ticket was found on him, with the name Richard Cole.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court ! hristcluirch, oo Tuesday, Robert Stevens was fined £25 for a breach of the Gaming md Lotteries Act, by playing a game called “back up'’ or “ forfeit ” on the Oxford racecourse. It was played with dice and a numbered table. One witness staled that ho had lost £B3 in a quarter of an hmr at it.

A Vigilance Committee of temperance non have forwarded a letter to the City Licensing Committee giving the results of a watch kept on fifteen hotels in the city and suburbs on one Sunday. They estimate that fully 4000 visits are paid to hotels in Christchurch every Sunday. In some cases intoxicated persons were seen leaving the hotels. The Licensing Committee decided to treat the document as an anonymous communication, and it was not read at the meeting.

W. H. Messenger, hotel-keeper, who has been brought back from Melbourne under the Fugutive Offenders Act, charged with wife desertion, arrived in Christchurch on Tuesday. At a conference of the hospital and benevolent trustees at Dunedin it was decided to send a delegate to Wellington to enforce the trustees’ views with regard !o the subsidy which they allege is due by the Government. The subsidy is claimed Jon the amounts voted by the Charitable Aid Boards, but the Government hold this would be subsidising the amounts locally raised by £3 to every £l. The weather at Invercargill is fine and the floods are abating. Communication has been restored on all lines except Nightcaps. On that railway two miles of formation have been washed away, and it will be some weeks before the damage is repaired. A man named John McGregor left Nelson in an open boat for the Moutere, about 12 miles distant, on Wednesday, the 2Gth, taking with him a bottle of gin and one of wine. Evidently he got drunk, and his boat drifted about the boy with its sail set till Monday when two fishermen found it. He was speechless and quite exhausted and died at the hospital on Tuesday.