TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1498, 12 October 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A cable message received at' Auckland announces the death of Mr W, J. Hurst, M.lj.jfc. fof WuitematH, of heart disease and dropsy, at Folkestone, England-! [ 1 John Livesy, commission agent, has been arrested at Auckland on a charge of, forgery of a cheque for £2OO, on the Bank of #o* . iZsalaod, in the naive of Foley. It is stated that theftotaliimount lost through the forgeries is some £656. Prisoner has been remanded. > r ‘ ■ ’ , , , The fdlm’wihg telegram in reference to, the supposed North Shore land 30b has been received &t Auckland ifa' reply! to the inquiry sent to Wellington - :—“ J. C. McDonald, t Esq., Chairman of Radical Refofth League, Newton. No.land .purchased at Devonport, but notice to take a piece published. Price will be settled by Compensation Court.-— Robert Stout.’’ The Goods in August and September have cost the Railway Department between £IO,OOO and £12,000, for repairs, besides:the total interruption of traffic 6h parts for a week and loss resulting, ~ , It is understood that iti,;tlie Wharema is not serious. The Inspector is now returning. It is not the intention of the authorities to run a train through from Wellington to New Plymouth every day when, the Manawatu Cdmpariy’a'line is finished, they cdnsMer the traffic will' n’oVwarfapt, it at present. They will probably fun through twice a week, on the days : the steamers leave New Plymouth.A man named Phipps, a cook on board tbo brig Wave, met with a serious accident at'TWaedin on Friday morning. He was working at a hand winch while load- ; the man bn the second handle missed bis hold. The barrel of the winch flew round and the handle struck Phipps on the forehead, smashing it in. The brain is protruding and. Phipps is not expected to recover. - . .. .'lj The Rev, Mr Philips, Anglican clergyman', ’recently'applied iq ,the. Mount Eden (AubklahfJ) School: Committee, tasking permission to give religious instruction in the school two days weekly after school hours. The Committee refused the request on the ground that it had already granted permission fpr undenominational ’ Bible reading after school hoqra., j Bishop Cowie then brought the matter under the notice of the Board of Education, enquiring as to whether the Committee, Rad, power to act thus. Tfie7Rbard|decid§dj that the Bishop be informed the decision rested with ? fhe School Committee.

Captain. Budd, of |the R&ngitikei, an 4 a seaman named Geo. Hawkins were drowned on Saturday last fn Lyttelton harbortowing of a v boat in which they, with two others, were sailing. Captain Budd was? .welt. Known in. Timaru.

Sir Julius V"ogol has been summoned to give,evidence,,^nithe ;Stark enquiry case?''" ' u - ' ' ,,k ' " '" "" '' ' ' ~■ ■■ :

R. Whitside, the Ponsonby crack, has been presented with a purse of sovereigns in recognition of his brilliant play during the recent football matches:

At the Auckland Board of Education meetingKon ; Saturday Certain ' correspondence came up concerning Mr Gurr, the teacher who committed suicide^ recently,, when it was resolved to take no further action in the matter of the charges against the accused.

The schoolmaster's residence at New Plymouth was burnt down at Ibreer o'clock on Saturday, "[the child rep; Jjaving. a narrow escape of.being burnt.-', ' Afc'a magisterial enquiry into the wreck of the ketch,Jeanette at,Cap^:Campbell, the-courtffound'that the wreck was the result of. careless {navigation!,Titnd sus- 1 pended Captain' Berg for three and ordered him to pay'costal ■y' "i

The £242,800 incribed stock to be raised for district-railway oeb|nfures represents in roubd figures [about i £116,000 for Kotorua ; £33",000"f0r Wnimate ; £70,000 for Kakaia ;. and £20,000 for the. Unalines, bought by/Go-, vernm'chi;Minder E the 'bisjtrici; * Railways Purchase Act. , ,;.... . ;:' ;i

A irnondli,th representing., (he. gold obtained in the JSfew Zealand Court It is said to look very. well, and, addß to the attraction •■;.'" December let' has been fixed as,. the dateiibniredemrig 1 for loans from local bodies under the Act of last session. A circular wiil~sbortly be issued .containing ajwecis of the'statutes under, whjch the proceedings must be' initiated. In the course of same remarks in the Wellington Supreme Court,.on Saturday,; on tnePirst Offenders'Probation Act, {he Chier'Justice Baid tpat dnringjt.hlfl 13 ort 14 years be had been on'the Bench there had only been some three or four cases before him in. which, in his, opinion,, the] Act would'apply, He thought that, in such cases is young Woman or any youner peison'. wasifou'tid'-guilty of silly acts, for the first jtiolel, was the' proper__pliißß_Qfjoffenderß-to--he dealt with under the -Apt) rand not every whose previonsVi Cbi'stdfy •riothmg - ( kuownv,<;.i; ■ ■-, , .<.'!--•' !(' l -'- t l!) •-' '••■ ■"■'■-•''