TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1564, 2 October 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Intelligence has ueen received from Taupo to the effect thai ltuapehn and Tongariro are quiet. The appearance seen from Matamata on Tuesday was a pi e of clouds mistaken fo-steam. Great Barrier Island is again coming into notoriety. A constable has been despatched there to arrest a bushman who bad threatened to shoot another. He is afleged to have said that it was a great pity Caffrey had gone away so quickly, as he should have hdd a male. The Wellington Education Board is in favor of an occasional removal. of inspectors if the Utter were under the control of the cental department. The foundation stone of the new St. John's Church at Napier, was laid on Wednesday-by the Bishop of Wai.ipu in the presence of a large assemblage of clergy and laity. The church is to cost £lo*ooo without the tower, and will be the largest church in the colony. It is "larger than Christehurch Cathedral as it now stand?, and will be very litre less than the cathedral when the latter is completed. It will seat comfortably 1100 persons in the main building, in addition to the chapel, which is to be built as a memorial *o B'flhop Williams. At four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, Chus. CJheymol, a Wellington wine merchant, who was recently adjudged a bankrupt, was arrested on three informatioris for forgery and issuing certificates for the deposit of goods in the Queen's bond. The first information charges him with a'tering a certificate for the deposits of two cases of branny ; the second for forgery of the certificate fur a certain number of casks of port wine ; and the third is with reference to ten cases of brandy. The alleged offences took place in January and February of the present vear. He was brought up at Court this morning and remanded till Wednesday, .bail being allowed in two sureties Gf £350 each. " Aube Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, the Great Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company were charged with having sold native game after the expiration of seven days . from the closing of the season, and had been through the frer-z na chamber. A fine of Is and costs was inflicted, - . Government have received a nnmber of specimens of insulators, including several of colonial make. They will all be subjected to rigid inspection before a decision ia .corrin to. • The charge of larceny preferred against the Cook family occupied the Wellington Magistrate's Court, on Wednesday Two of the male children, aged respectively 11 and 8 years, were ordered to be sent .to the Burnhaai Industrial School until attaining the age of 15, and were ordered to be privateiy whipped. The father was committed for trial on three charges of receiving and stealing, and the mother and second* daughter on t-vo changes of receiving and stealing respectively. The Chairman of the Lyttelton Harbor Board announced on Wednesday that the statement, insde as to the grounding of the Coptic when las', leaving Lyttelton untrue..

At a meeting of. chemists and druggists at Ohristchnrch on Wednesday night, iecommenda'ions were adopted to be submitted to the Australian Pharmaceutxal Conference to be held in Melbourne in October, by the- delegate fur the South Island. The meting considered (hat uniformity n'f pharmaceutical education throughout Australia is desirable, and that an exaininatioh in general knowledge should be. passed before appienticeship, which be four years. They' were of opinion that lectures in pharmaceutical chemistry should be arranged for in connection with the New Zealand University, and ihp.t there should be uniform legislation in all oMier colonies to leuulate pharmaceutical aff-iirs nnd the sale and custody of poisons ; that the sale of poiaons by other than registered chenrst-v if allowed should' be as restricted as much as posBibe, consistent with public convenience, and th«t the laws regulating the sale of poisons should| apply to patent and proprietory medicines containing poisons. f .The body of Stuart Jameson, an Onebunga oysterman, was found at Wilks' Island, Manukau. '■!.!..F.- Greening, h well dressed woman, was arrested'ht while trying to purchase laudanum at a chemist's. She ha.d.i , hrpat & ned to poison herself. •Mr Justice Gillies presided at the Supreme Court, Aucklan-', on Thursday for the last time prior to lakirg a year's leave of absence. No mention of his departure was made in Court. Mr Justice Ward held a sitting in Chambers on Friday. The Postal Department had in contemplation the establishment of a pane'3 p&i in the colony, hut the matter will be deferred until the New Year at least, and possibly till the expiry of the fiivmoial year. The outbreak of sonb in the Wairarapa district is supposed to be at present confined, merely io- some sheep which have. been'running wild in a patch of hush on Government : and. The place is very remote, and far from a telegraph station, which accounts for no news having been revived from Inspector Bailey. At the Resident Magistrate's C"nrt, Christehurch, on Thursday, Georjre Pi't, a bre*er, was fiued the full penalty, £5, foi supplying ten gallons of beer to a person under a prohibition order. This is the first conviction of ihe k ; nd there, the difficu ty having been to prove ihat the accused had th« knowledge of the prohibition orders. Important dipco\eriesof richly mineralised quartz have been made on the eastern side of Gre»t Barrier Island. Four analyses have junt been made of etone from d fferent reefs; the lowest of which gives 13dwts of gold and 7oas of silver per ton ; and the highest 6ozs of gold, and 16ozs of silver per ton. Government has been communicated with in order to have the district proclaimed a goldtield. The Collector of Customs made a seizure of forty silver wßtches and gold waiches on Thursday morning from a jeweller's shop jubt opened at New Plymouth. The watches ate supposed to have been introduced in some luggage which passed entry at the Customs about a month ago, «i>d the oircuniHtance of some of tiie articles being dut'able not being disc'onpii.