TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1532, 15 July 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Arawala arrived at Russell last Tuesday from Fiji. She reports no signs of the cutter Sovereign of the Seas. The Rev. J. S. Smalley, special evangelist last Tuesday night closed a most successful series of meetings in the Pitt street Wesleyan Church, Auckland. The proceedings have been of the nature of a religious revival. Judge Richmond gave his decision yesterday morning in the case against the Cook (Wellington), Licensing Committee He refused to grant a mandamus , holding the decision of the Licensing Committee was final.

The Christchurch Orphanage Committee reported yesterday on the enquiry into the alleged cruelty to a child by washing him in the open air on a cold wet day. They consider the method of cleansing which had been adopted was injudicious" but that no ultimate harm resulted, and that the whole matter was much exaggerated by the persons makmg (he complaint, At T.gtO a.m. yesterday a cottage at St. Albans, owned by the Rev, Mr Dolomore, and occupied by Mr Hewitfield, traffic foreman of the tramway, was burned down. The cause is supposed to have been accidental.

The body a woman aged 30 uas found in the Harbor at Auckland on Tuesday and identified as that of Mrs Nelson. She has two children in Dunedin, and is said to be a sister of Mrs Davis, wife of a Dunedin pablican. At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Tuesday, William Templeton, alias Piper, on a charge of larceny from a hotel, was acquitted. His Honor, in discharging the prisoner, said—“ Prisoner, the jury have acquitted you. .1 can only say to you, as I have had to say to others, tliat they have done so in the face of fhe plainest evidence. That is my conviction.” A verdict of guilty of embezzlement was returned against Gibson, formerly Towij OleiU of Petone. Sentence was deferred. Cornelius Toll, convicted of robbery of 30s from an hotel, and against whom previous convictions have continually been recorded since 1873, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment with hard labor.

The .v, veers of the Wallubi, beached at Gre\m -nib, have agreed to accept £6OO from the insurance companies as payment in full i‘f all claims for insurance (£1300), and will sell her for the benefit of whom it may concern as she lies. At the Divorce Court, Christchurch, on Tuesday Mi Justice Johnston granted decree nisi for'dissolutioo of marriage in Winthrop v. Winthrop, on the grounds of adultery and desertion by the husband. The Taiaroa Relief Fund Committee, finding very little prospect of increasing the fund have decided to allocate the amount in hand (£166 odd) among the meat necessitous cases.

The schooner Volunteer, 23 tons, owned by Mr Mclntosh, became a total wreck at Sumner bar on Tuesday afternoon. She was going out, wlisn she alrnck on ihe beacon rock, carrying away the beacon. The crew escaped. She is now lying in mid-channel, opposite the beacon rock. A man mimed Qpo. Treleaven was drowned while the steamer Penguin was on her last voyage from Lyttelton, to Dandein. He was a miller by trad*. The 12th Ju'y wna celebrated by the Orangemen at Timaru by special services on Sunday, and a tea and dance on Monday. Oo Monday tbe foundation stone of a Hall was laid at Pleasant Foist.

At Auckland last Monday night eight larrikin*, with the avowed intention of wrecking the Star Hotel, attacked Adam Cairns, the licensee. Polica assistance was telephoned for, and two rioters, Patrick O’Keefe and Richard Larratl, were arrested. They were charged nt the Police Court on Tuesday morning, and O’Keefe was sentenced to one month’s hard labor, and Larratt was fined £5 and costs, or one month’s imprisonment. The other members of the gang known are Birkenhead and Norlhcote.