TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1541, 5 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mr James Moorbouse, an old resident oi Helson, died suddenly last Sunday night, aged 59. At Auckland thirty unemployed married me i tvith fnmiliea were put on municipal works on Monday. The railway authorities intend putting 50 or 100 men on the riiiwny to improve bad curves. The unemployed who have struck work at Mount 'Men have declined to resume at the terms offered by the railway engineer. Tile brig Aratapu was successfully floated off the beach at Gisborne on Sunday uninjured. A private Infer received at Christchurch slut s that the Kuiapoi Woollen Company’s manufactures attracted much attention at i lie I idian and Colonial Exhibition, and ■ hat the Priuce of Wales had ordered a n t of their material from a West End tailor. Mr Avigdor, another partner of the firm of McKeone and Robinson, of the Midland Rdiway contractors, is expected to arrive in New Zealand shortly. Mr Robinson has expressed himself as agreeably surprised with the character of. the country ho passed through on his trip to the West Coast. A house in South Dunedin, owned and occupied by George Lamb, was burned down on Sunday night. The house was injured for £l5O in the Union office, and toe furniture for £IOO in the Victorian office. Patrick Cavannagh, Maurice Baffon, and John Patrick Davis were charged at the Dunedin Police Court on Monday with passing spurious coins at the races on Saturday, They were remanded till Monday next on small bail. An unoccupied house near Lawrence, nsured in the Colonial Company for £IOO, was burned down on Monday morning. An eight-roomed house, between Lee Mid Dee Streets, Invercargill, occupied by W. Allen, a dyer, and owned by B. Sloan, was burned down on Monday morning. It was insured for £IOO in the Liverpool, London and Globe. diaries Henry Humphries, one of the sufferers by the disaster caused by the snip! ion at Tara went, has been compelled to file his schedule. Ho was a storekeeper ai Wairoa, and on the night of the disaster his whole property was destroyed. The total liabilities are £541 7s 9d. A fire at Archill, Auckland, on Monday completely destroyed the shop and fiveroomed house occupied by Christian Kjer, and a three-roomed cottage occupied by Albert Grove. Insurances, £250 in the Union and £l3O in the New Zealand. It is understood that Government has in contemplation to offer all appointments to the Police and Permanent Militia to volunteers under certain regulations. Police recruits will be expected to pass a probationary course in the Permanent Militia (rifle branch), as also candidates for special branches of the Permanent Militia itself. Regulations as to age, height, education, character, &c,, will shortly be drawn up, and it is intended to distribute as far as may bo equally the appointments to the several districts of the colony. Richard Moore, a retired Auckland merchant, nearly 70 years of age, was found dead in his house at North Shore on Monday morning. He was sitting on a chair with a gun between his knee* and apparently the gun was fired into hi* mouth, as there was a large wound on the back of his neck. Deceased has been in low spirits for soma time. Four years ■go he shot himself with a pistol, inflicting two wounds, but he recovered. Six inmates of the Auckland Lock Hospital who escaped last Monday night ■vere sentenced to a month’s imprisonment, and the ring'eader to two months. A motion is before the County Council to abolish the institution or take a poll of die ratepayers.