TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1543, 10 August 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Frederick Chn’ste, alias Chr istmn'son, of New Plymouth, was arrested at Auckland on a charge of larceny, of the floods of August Neilsen, whose wife accompanied Christie. The wife has also been arrcßed for stealing her husband’s goods. An unusually high tide and heavy sea at Napier last Thursday night 1 damage'* seven chains'of sea wall of the Manne Parade, and destroyed 13 chain's of wad. Ihe estimated dam»g* is £llOO. Mr W. Stace, of Bahotsuri, Wellington, has been killed by a log falling on him,

A miner named Patrick Egan has bee< killed at Skippers, Otago, by a truck loaded with quartz jumping off the rails and crushing him. Tho rule was made absolute by Mr Justice Williams, in the divorce cse Wakefield v. Wakefield and another.

A trolly loaded with timber, on which a man named Henry Lewis was sitting, was precipitated into, the sea at the Head** works, Dunedin. Lewis received such severe injuries that his recovery is ddubtfuh

It is stated that tho directors of the Wairaea Plains railway, are not likely to sell the railway on the terms as altered by Parliament.

Judgment in the case of Ames v. Pharazyn, in which Mr C. J. Phartzyn was fined £IOO and coats for having, illegally voted at the election of a member for Thorndon, was delivered in Chambers at Wellington on Friday morning by the Chief Justice. His Honor upheld) Mr Pharazyn’a appeal, and quashed the conviction of the Resident Magistrate. Costs were given against the plaintiff, David Walker has been killed by a kick from a horse at Manga Karamea. Dr Young, Superintendent of the Auckland Asylum, has resigned on the ground that tiie promise to increase his salary has not been carried out. He claims £6OO a year, the same as the Southern supeiintendents get. The doctor go’s £4OO at present. J. Brooks, shoemaker, Victoria street, Christchurch, was found dead on Saturday in his house, having evidently died in a fit. He was much addicted to drink, and had not been seen alive since Thursday. About 500 persons were present at the meeting of unemployed at Auckland on Saturday morning. The following resolution was proposed in an inflarnmatoiy speech, which was loudly applauded : That Government open up works without delay, or we shall have to take some steps for ourselves which will cause trouble at large.” Some speakers objected to the resolution, which, however, w a ? carried with a slight modification, Uu meeting then adjourned till Friday next.