TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1497, 9 October 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Maori conspiracy case at Auckland, ■ari,sing out of the allegad Kid well rape case, has been dismissed. The Dunedin .Presbytery have referred to, the Synod a memorial from the First Free Church congregation, asking to be admitted into' the Presbytery, 'provided safeguards are provided against instrumental music and other innovations. Tie Presbytery express the opinion that no absolute safety can be provided by the higher Courts of the Church. A new’ 'industry, styled Pbudrette Works, for utilising the city nightsoil, has. been established at Dunedin. The nightsoil is deodorised, dried, ground in to, "powder, and then sold as manure. A t his meeting at Dunedin on Wednesday, night, Mr Bracken explained the circumstances of his singing in the House, and wound up by singing the same song "to the'audience. At a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, it waadecidedto recommend the Governor to sanction the release of P. K, Walty, now undergoing a sentence of five years for forgery, on January Ist, when ho will have served about half his time. Walty has show.n exemplary conduct in the gaol where lie lias rendered considerable assistance to tha authorities. The flocks on the Clarence rims in the Kaikoura district taken over by the Government under the Scab Act, are coming in clean. Five or six thousand sheep have recently been dipped, i .-The Sheep, Conference at Sydney isnotv considering the regulations for dealing with foreign. sheep and cattle and expect to finish on Friday. Mr Mackenzie was not allowed to vote. Mr Scott and other representatives of the Midland Railway Con pany.had a long interview with the Minister for Public 'Works: re t tho preliminaries necessary to starting the work. The Government have determined not to take, part in the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition, as they consider the expense too heavy and not worth while unless we could make a proper display. It has been discovered that there is no provision in the new Hospitals and Charitable Aid-Act for the election of Committees, and some means of remedying the oversight has now to be devised. ; Mr, Crawford has refused the Government’s offer of £lO per acre for his land taken at Wellington for defence and the question now has to be stilled in the Compensation Court. Mr J. 11. Hutchison, J.P., was presented at. Blenheim on his sevestieth birthday, with an illuminated address and a purse of 50 sovereigns in recognition of Ins services as the oldest member of the Prethytemn Church. At Christchurch on Thursday Jonathan Roberts, formerly a bank clerk, was committed for trial at the present criminal sessihßs "charged with forging a cheque fop £7O 17s G h This makes the third case of forgety w hich has been committed to the Supreme Court since it bus bce&ia session*