TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1558, 18 September 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mr D. H, McKeozie, of Auckland, has received a cable from ,his agent at Cambridge Gulf asking for instructions re the disposal of the Bapido’s cargo, tbe goods being wholly unsaleable and Kimberley a “ total failure,” dolohel H»ultainj, Mr,,'Westenra (of Chnstchurch),: and ex-Judge -Harvey, have accepted the appointment of commissioners, to enquire into the Stark purchase in Auckland. The. iflinemoa left Lyttelton on Wednesday'ffor'Port Chalmers, m route for Big ißay, 'She ; took 18 of Gibbs’party, and 10 other diggers. The Otago Charitable Aid Board has decided .to call a special meeting to levy rihcler the amended,Act., A flS ptlrty . of ten men proceed from Diihedih per Hinemoa lo Big Bay, , A! juried still was found near Roxburgh the other, day. It was taken to the police station. A jewel case, containing jewellery to the value of £97 and two cheques of the value of £IOO, was abstracted from the portmanteau of Mr Gerald Purcell Fitzgerald, at the Commercial Hotel, Christchurch, on the Bth September. The cheques have been stopped. Up to the present the police have no clue. The whole affair appears very mysterious,® as no one is known to have been near the room except a person who is above suspicion. Lieutenant Andrews, of Sydenham, who, was recently granted a commission in the line, has been appointed to the first battalion of Sherwood Foresters, the Derbyshire regiment, now stationed in Ireland, The Supreme Court sessions at Hokitika concluded on Thursday. In the divorce case a decree was refused, both parties, haying committed adultery. In the seduction case a verdict was given for the plaintiff, for £75 and costs. Several appeals and private suits were also dealt With. Mr G. J. Matson, of Christchurch, is Bending a shipment of 2000 ostrich feathers to England in the Bimutaka. Thp t quijdity is considered by experts to be to good. , Stephen Middleborougb, a young man in the employ of Mr T. Rowley, baker, Knightstown, Christchurch, was thrown froth'his'cart on Thursday afternoon 'and killed; The Wool Growers’ Association of Australasia propose to float a company in Melbourne to work a factory at Senju, Japan; ' A 1 portion of the capital it is anticipated will be subscribed in New Zealand; At a meeting of the North Canterbury Edtfc&tibn Board on Thursday a resolution was passed strongly protesting against the intention of the Minister of Education to withhold any grant for repairs to •school premises. The Otago Education Board has passed a resolution instructing the Secretary to communicate with the other Boards in the colony as to whether they are in favor of an exchange of inspectors. The Auckland Coursing Club’s champion stakes were run off on Thursday at Pidmptoh Park. Mr Griffith's Caradoc won the stake, Meteor being runner-up. A proclamation appears in the Gazette abolishing the Christchurch District Court . from* Ist October next. The Gazette nbtifies that the sitting of the District Court for Timaru district is fixed for 11th November, and at Waimate for 15th November, the latter for civil business only. The Gazette notifies that the chairmen of hospital and charitable aid boards are appointed" ex officio visitors of Government and local industrial schools. A case of some importance was beard in the Supreme Court at Wellington on Thursday morning. The plaintiff Pritchard, of Blenheim, bought at a sale’for £6ff-a-property over which, he held a mortgage. The Stamp officer sought to charge him duty on the whole value (£2000), which he resisted. Judge Richmond decided that he was only liable to pay on £SO. A digger, who believes he is the man referred to as lost in the Tautuka bush, between Gatlin’s and Fortrose, has arrived at Invercargill. He states he left Gatlin’s on Good Friday ; that he left part of his effects there, and that he turned off the bush track at a point described on the surveyors’ maps. He has been many months prospecting from Hampden to Waikawa, but found nothing cf any moment, the bcat prospects being between Gatlin’s and Bushy Point Bluff, The man is an experienced digger andt goes to Big Bay. Should he not succeed there, he will return to the locality , previously named. The Three Horsahoes Hotel, near Kemearty, East road, Southland, was burned on Thursday, with the bulk of its contents. No one was about the premises but Mrs Brown, wife of the licensee. The fire is supposed to have been caused by some sheets which were hung before the fire to dry, becoming ignited. Ihe loss- is estimated - at £4OO above the insurances. A family of six (father, mother, two daughters, and two sons), by the name of Cook, appeared in Court at Wellington on Thursday morning to answer charges of wholesale larceny and the receipt of stolen, goods. The boys were little fellows and the girls of mature age. For some time complaints have been general of petty.;thieving, especially of small goods and flowers. On Wednesday she two boys were caught in the act of stealing-* some articles from the front of a general store. On visiting Cook’s house a large assortment of miscellaneous goods, some still bearing shop marks, were found, apd on Thursday morning a number of tradesmen had quite a busy time at the Police Station identifying their property. The two boys pleaded guilty, the rest not guilty. All were remanded for a week. _ ■ ■