TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 154, 14 August 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

An elderly man named John Duckett was committed for trial at Port Cba'raers ' for criminally assaulting his step daughter, between 10 and 11 years of age. The Otago Dock Trust passed a resolution to at once float a lean and send an agent to England to obtain information and purchase material and plant. The members appeared to think that if not proceeded with thedockwould eventually bo made, at .Dunedin., . An MtraordVftury Application'came before the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Wednesday. The. liquidator of Montgomery and Co. (Limited), a company which is being voluntarily wound up, bad failed to induce two of the shareholders to accept tho money they were enttled to, and applied for an order-to lodge the amount in Court, so that ho might complete the liquidation. The amount involved is about £IBOO, and His Honor, while granting the order, expressed surprise that in these dull times persona should find it in their hearts to refuse money awarded them’liuder snch circumstances. The American warship Mohican is expected from Fiji on the 20th. 0n1y443-men have yet accepted employment at tho railway works on the Woodhill-Kaipara line. There is employment for doable that number. Of four unemployed ” contracts let by the Auckland Corporation, one of the parties have never started work, though nearly a week has elapsed, and they have practically abandoned it. The Gazette notifies the appointment of the Hoo. Colonel Brett as a colonel in the New Zealanc Militia. The Mayor on Thursday night presented the Hamane Society’s bronze medal and certificate to Mr Kenneth Hurne, and certificate to Mr E. W. Triggs, for saving life in Wellington Harbor. The Gazette notifies that pukakis or pukuras (swamp hens) have, been declared native game. A man named Kelly, who was injured at Lyttelton on August 3rd while unloading a coal trucks died on Wednesday of the injuries received. At the Dunedin Police Court on Thursday, Mary Ann Rutherford was fined £2O, and William Downes £2O, for sly groggelling at Nenlhorn. No further damage has yet been done to the Pelham. Tho coals are being lightened but very slowly, only about 80 tons being yet landed. An apprentice named John O’Dain, aged fourteen, was killed at Wellington on Thursday afternoon by a fall in a tunnel at the rear of Thomas Ballinger’s gas fitting shop. Deceased rvas playing with other lade, whan he accidentally knocked away one of the props supporting thereof, and about fifteen tons of gravel fell. Death was instantaneous. The other lads escaped. During the passage of the barque Isabel from New York to Dunedin, Mr Nichol, tire second officer, was carried overboard while attending to the halliards on June ISth. Deceased was the son of a boot manufacturer in Dunedin, and served his time on one of the Albion Company's boats.