TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1553, 7 September 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

John Thomas Clark, watchmaker, has been committed at Auck and on a charge of arson. Applications for selections of lands under the village special settlement system of perpetual lease and by deferred payment closed »t Auckland on FridaJy. ICO applications were received for leases, and six for deferred payment seciions.i The charges of forgery against Maurice Casey and Edward Short at Auckland, re weighbridge tickets, were withdrawn, as the evidence was similar that: in the charge of larceny which was also withdrawn. I Hudson, the holder of the Otago Caledonian Society’s Beit for wrestling, now at Wanganui, hna accepted Dunn’s challenge for any sum from £SO to £2OO. He saya he has not received an official communication from the secretaiy to the society, and knows nothing except from the Press telegrams. He will leave Wellington on the Bth September with his trainor. J. C. Crawford has sent in a claim of £31,000 for 245 acres of l«nd ai Point Haswoll and Fort Ballance, Wellington, t«keu for defence purposes. The laud is very steep along the south side of the harbor and commonly supposed le be of small value. The Auckland City Council have decided not to maintain the Lock hospital any longer with city funds. At the inquest of Mrs Katll and child at Invercargill, the jury found that they perished through the accidental, burning of *he house, and added a rider commending the brave conduct of Flora McLeod, the servant, who saved the three children. Between midnight and one o’clock on Sunday morning a seaman named Thomson, one of the ship Waipahi’s crew, fell backwards off the gangway into the water at Port Chalmers. He was picked up by the third mate ; taken on board, and every effort was made to resuscitate him, but without avail. The Sydney Government have asked the Now Zealand Government to send a sheep inspector and two men of approved experience in stock management to the Conference at Sydney. Mr J. D. Lance has consented to go, and the Hon Mr Peters will probably be the other delegate. The inspector has not been selected, and there is a difficulty in giving one leave as their hands are full to the utmost in dealing with the rabbit pest. , > The body of Wm. Mattetson, a member of the Armed Constabulary force, was taken out of the water near the breastwork at Waterloo Quay, Wellington, on Sunday morning. Nothing is known as to how deceased got into the water, - hut on Saturday afternoon he wis epreeing about. He was about 30 years of age. Matterson was one of the Sydney contingent who went to the Soudan, and only a few days ago received a medal for his services. The case of McLellan v. Staples and Co., at Wellington, resisted in a verdict for the defendants. The plaintiff leased the Clyde Quay Hotel from the defendants, for a number of years at a rental of £4 a week, it being agreed that if the license was cancelled through any fault of McLellan he should pay to Staples nn<) Co. a certain amount as damages, The Licensing Bench canceled the license, but not through any misdeed on the part of McLellan, therefore he sued the defendants for breach of agreement and fora cancellation of the leases. The result was a verdict for Staples and Co., with coats. ____________