TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1559, 21 September 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

James Ray has been committed for trial for al'eged criminal libel on John Green, solicitor, Auckland. A dispute arose Out of money transactions. The Auckland City Council, through the representations of the iron workers, have decided to invite tenders locally for the new plant for the waterworks, instead of importing it. On the inaugural trip on the Oreli from Auckland to Hekianga, as subsidised by the Government, she took sixty passengers for the Government special settlements, to go on the land. It has been ascertained that altogether eight tons of iron, belonging to Messrs Morrin and Co., Auckland, has been stolen from the yard in Commerce street. The Hon. Mr Balance, on Thursday visited Waihi, north of Waitara, to see the natives there. He received several deputations, and left by the Rotorua in the afternoon for Auckland. For weeks past some person or persons at Te Aro, ‘he city of Wellington, have been playing “ the ghost ” business, and numbers of nervous persons have received great frights. The police have been on the lookout for some time, but are unable to discover the miscreant, and the papers suggest that charges of buckshot might exorcise the ghost. jas. Mitchell, alias McKenzie, who is charged with robbing Freeman’s jeweller’s shop, has been committed for trial. It is proposed at Christchurch to give a dinner to Mr Allan Scott, the Midland Railway delegate, who has just returned from London.

Mr J. J. Scott, landlord of the Central Hotel, Wellington, while standing on a small table on the first storey of the hotel on Friday afternoon, searching for on escape io a gas pipe, overbalanced himself, and fell down the well of the staircase, falling, heavily on his head, which struck the second step from the bottom. The fall must have been clear .18 feet at least, and as Scott’s weight Is 21 stone, the results were, of course, very serious. Scott received a nasty scalp wound, and his spine was injured. He died on Saturday morning, paralysis having set in. The deceased’s life was insured tor £ISOO. Scott was a well-known volunteer, and a frequent competitor at the meeting of the N.Z. Rifle Association. A curious application was made to His Honor Mr Justice Johnston in Banco at Christchurch on Friday. This was for an order, the applicant being the Minister for Public Works, for an injunction prohibiting His Honor himself from silting on a compensation case to be brought against the department by Mr J, McLean, of Ashburton. His Honor declined to adjudicate in the matter, and advised Mr Joynt, who represented the Minister, to make his application nt Dunedin or Wellington. The Wellington Meat Export Company are applying for a new trial in their case against the master and owners of the Coptic, claiming damages for alleged injuries to a cargo of mutton sent by that steamer, and which damage they say was due to the negligence.of defendants. In the first case the jury returned a verdict which on technical grounds was entered up as for defendants. George Joseph Russell was committed for trial at Christchurch on Saturday, on a charge of perjury. In a civil case in the R.M, Court, Christchurch, lie swore he had not signed an agreement, which several witnesses proved that he had. The Committee of . the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce have pasned a resolution strongly condemning the action of the banks in charging 6d exchange for every £2O or fraction of £2O on cheques, drafts, bill, etc., drawn within the Canterbury district and payable in any other district. ....... A timber-laden vessel is reported upside dowp on the rocks off Waikokopu, near Mahia. She is rapidly breaking up. There is no sign of the crew. The constable at Wairoa has been despatched to the eoene of the wreck.

Mr G, F. Richardson, M.H.H. I for Mataura, addressed h>s constituents at Fortrose on Friday evening, and received a vote of the thanks and confidence. In all 104 minors’ tickets were taken nt the Invercargill railway station hr miners en route for Big Bay, bi>si les i large on in* her of ordinary tickets taken by persons going to the port io see their friends away. Thirteen truck of stores, tools, etc., accompanied the party, Theie was hearty cheering when the train moved avay.