TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1565, 5 October 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A tender has been accepted for the construction of a reservoir on Mount Eden (Auckland)/ to hold half a million gallon*; It will be placed half way up the hill, and will give a Bupply to the high lying suburbs. The contract time is eighteen months. Win. Henry Jones, a veterinary surgeon at To A'roh'a, ' has benn arrested on a charge of passing a valueless cheque. The charitable relief for September in rations in Auckland and suburbs was (he heaviest yet attained, being £SO in excess of August. Two Auckland boys named Cartleton, near Hamilton, reported being chased from the creek at their father's farm by some strange reptile resembling an alligator. Constable Wild went out to the locality with some settlers, but failed to see if. In Banco at Wellington on Friday ar- ■ gument was partially heird in the case Dodswell v. the Bishop of Wellington. This is ao action in which the plaintiff, a clergyman, sues the bishop for damages sustained through the latter cancelling bis license. Mont D.'Or (Weßt Coast) total washings resulted in 4270z5. ot gold, value, £1634. A dividend of Is per share ia declared. The Eoss Company washed 9ozs. for one shift on Friday. A four roomed houße at Normanby (Dunedin), insured for £235 in the South British office, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday. The subject of the charges against Mr Gurr, teacher of the Onehuoga School, has beeD aguin before the Auckland Education Board. Mr Gurr wrote to the Board giving an emphatic denial to the charges made, and intimating his intention of taking the matter to the Supreme Court. It has transpired that after the review at Auckland on the 25th September a fracas took place between a non-com-missioDed officer and a civilian at an hotel, oyer the sword exercise, which ended in trie Sergeant falling and breaking bis leg in two places. John Hanwell was committed for trial at Christchurch on Saturday on a charge of perjury in the R.M. Court. Daring the passage of the Himalaya from Glasgow to Dunedin the coals in the main hold spontaneously ignited, and it was found necessary to jettison some of the general cargo and 50 tons of coals. The vessel at the time was 500 miles from land. There was no confusion among the passengers or crew. Ai Benhet, accountant, Auckland, was on Saturday committed tor trial on a charge of perjury, which it ia alleged was committed in evidence in the notorious Bolton case"; Bannet, who was formerly trustee in bankruptcy, swore that a certain bill lodged as a claim in Bolton's estate was disallowed by him because it was not endorsed. Several witnesses testified that it was duly endorsed when lodged. Bail was allowed in a bond of » £IOO, and the defence was reserved. William Peate was charged at the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court with fradulently converting to his own use a promissory note. For the defence it was shown that the note was unstamped and therefore not a valuable security, and as a matter of h»w accused was not liable, and further, that there was no evidence of conversion. "The Magistrate in dis-j missing the-' case-remarked tLat the evidence die not leave a shadow of disgrace on the character of the accused.;: / A man named Heory Davis, "a swagger, was arrested at Featherston (Wellington), on Friday night, charged with stabbing a man named Laurence Dunn, a railway laborer. The wound is across the right breast, over the nipple, and extends l| inches. K The wound was inflicted with.a sheath knife. At a meeting of the Wellington Educational Institute on Saturday, it was decided to send the following matters down to fChristgHurch for discussion, .by theClbnference in January next:—(l) The establishment of a teachers' pension fund. (2) Revision of the standards with a view to 'the reduction of subjects; the advisability of clearly defining the powers of Boards and Committees, especially in the appointment of teachers: and the issue of a series of text books in which colonial mutter should be prominent. (3) The opening of greater facilities.to Maoris for obtaining a uaiversty degree. Messrs, .Purdie and McMoran. were ap-, poinied'jdelegates to the Conference. ,