TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1517, 10 June 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Orpheus for Port Derby silled from Auckland -on Monday. There n'flfgj*' hundreds on the wharf to see the intending 1 diggers off > ? In n football match at Auckland » /;:

young man named Biggs had his thighs broken. Ai the Cook (Wellington), licensing , ’ meeting on Monday, theßench inlimated - that the licenses for (he Prince of Wales, Army and Navy, and Clyde Quay Hotels would not be renewed. ■ An adjournment in these cases was granted until tire 18th instant, for the licensees to produce evidence. All the other licenses were re-

newed. ’ ' ' " ';,j| The census returns for the electorates and counties'are nearly ready, only one or two small returns from ; the South bavingto come in. The.completeretards.* will be presented tO‘ Parliament ihese arrive, : Government .have not yet' 1 considered the Representation Bill, and it is understood it will not be touched this. I sesoion, but ’bit 4 , another session’will be '' ' held early next year. c f Tne adj urned meeting of persons desirous of gome t ■ Kimberley, was held at Wellington on Monday night. Very little enthusiasm was shown, anrh it was : decided that any person wishing tp go should pay down half the passage money at once, aid‘the - balance in a day or two. :>¥ : : It is not expected that there wifi be any ' great response. *

• The.'Dunedin corporation have wired to , Government, asking them to pay claims ,>v in connection with the recent blasting

operations, ninounting to nearly £IO,OOO, •*'' and Councillor Uobin, of Dunedin, lies had an interview with Ministers. Govern-

ment decline in any way to become re- - ponsikle. ?Ik * v i A number of diggers, principally from the West Coast, left Wellington, on Mon---6/d 6 / day by the Hnuroto lor Sydney, en route for Kimberley. , , • '• Ten men left Foilding on Monday for Kimberley, fully equipped, taking drays t and horses. ,v ;

Mr Bdlens, a storekeeper at Akaroa, was selling some blasting powder in his . yard on Monday morning; The purchaser,, i

James Hewitt, lit some to try if it was . damp, when all the powder several 1 j pounds weight exploded. Both the men were severely burnt about the head and hands. They were carefully attended

to by a doctor, and are • progressing . favorably. Wibiam Horne, a miner at Skippers, (Otago), died suddenly in his bunk, and William Boyd died suddenly, while. „ riding, between Frankton and Queens# town. ■ ■ • - . .

At a well-attended meeting of citizens at Wellington on Monday evening, Sir Robert Stout presiding, the following

resolution, moved by the Mayor, was carried ;—“ That in the opinion of this ’ meeting it'would not be to the credit of the citizens of Wellington to have a rate

stuck for the support of the hospitals - and charitable institutions in that city, t and that an organised effort be made to - -si raise funds by other means.” A second -:'st resolution has passed appointing a committee to devise means of raising the. necessary funds. ' l ‘ On the last trip of the \Vakatipu to T ""- Sydney a man named Harry White was a' passenger. It transpires that he had < robbed his employer, Thomas Dicnenson, . j i of £3OO worth of -jewellery, £2OO of which he oisposed of at Wellington, and this the police have succeeded in recovering. ;: White was arrested in Sydney on the strength of a cablegram, and Constable 1 * Mackmnon, of Westport, left by the Hauroto on Monday to bring him back. 5 » A man named James Mclntyre was stabbed at Paikakiriki (Wellington) on Monday afternoon by a man named Matthew Johnston. It appears the latter had justgone np country, and was suffering from - the effects of drink, when a dispute arose, ' and he attacked Mclntyre with the sharp end of a candlestick used in the tunnels, ; f inflicting eight or nine wounds, but they ' are not believed to be very serious. Mclntyre, was taken to the hospital and Johnston to the lock-up. On the follow- v mg day Johnston was sentenced to two months’imprisonment. A report lias reached Waipawa, from Makaretu Bust) that smoke and steam have for five months (ever, since the diah stroiis bush fires) been issuing!, from the ,-ide of the hill adjoining, the Tuki Tuki river-hed, and 200 feet high. A settler made an inspection and thinks that what lie believes to be a seam of coal two feet thick is on fire.