TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1518, 12 June 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

It has transpired that when the Home Rule resolutions carried at the Auckland meeting were cabled to Mr Gladstone, the Orangemen of Auckland sent a cablegram to the Marquis of Salisbury stating that the meeting was not representative of the people' of Auckland, but merely of the Irish party. Government, with a view of fostering local industries, will shortly call for tenders for 100,000 insulators with bolts and fasteners, the whole of which are to be manufactured in the colony. f

The population of the North Island by the new census is 247,404, exclusive c Maoris and shipping. The population at last census was 193,047.

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, Mrs Syme, formerly of Nelson, brought an action against 3. F. Rockstrow, of Foxton, claiming £SOO damages for the alleged unskilful treat ment of a broken arm and lest service in consequence. The medical evidence went to show that the case was moat unsuccessfully treated. After n few minutes deliberation the jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for £2OO, on the ground of defendant’s neglect in not calling in medical advice afterwards.

The Dunedin Harbor Board’s big dredge came into collision with the barque Othello, with the result that the latter sustained considerable damage.

Mr John Hare, a well-known merchant at Invercargill, died suddenly last Tuesday night. The deceased arrived many years ago, and for a long time did a large trade with the Lakes goldfields. Before coming to New Zealand he was at the Cape of Good Hope and on the Victorian goldfields.

Major Minnet (late of the 78th Roy a Irish, and who acted as subaltern of .that regiment in New Zealand) has been appointed muskelry instructor of the New Zealand forces, The appointment has been gazetted.