TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1500, 16 October 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

In!,tbe Supreme Court. Auckland, on Wednesday, /.£. J- Clarke, indicted for arson, was acquittal.. .The J edge summed Up dead agaiosf him,' and iu discharging the prisoner Sdd that if was fortunate for .ifliii' Mist the jury bad taken?a lenient view- of.ltie:case;..

The anaual, session of (lie Diocesan Synod was'opened at Auckland on Wednesday ’ by' Bishop Cow ie. In his inaugural address his lordshfip'ideplored llm absence ot religious instruction in public p.liUo;s, au(i uiged: the clergy to supply tee lack wherever possible -after school hours by -gathehing the ’children in Qoveinmem schools together ;'lqr religious instiuctioDS, .

, At the Supreme; Ccurt, Wanganui, on Wednesday, Robert Julies,.for.embezz'ing from the Oustoiiis D’epariraen'tV was sentenced' to" 38 hard labor. - Answers received by Captain Somerville, Chairman of the New Zealand (Rifle Association;' -pointAtohlie end of 'February or the .beginning of March as the most likely, date for the Christchurch meeting. : .. ,- /r . Charles Ch'eyrnol, was committed for trial at Wellington on Wednesday, for having, on the Ist February, 1886, or thereabouts, and uttered a certificate of,(/pPMS.it Queen’s Bond, Warehouse, for ten casks of brandy. The eta wind of the'ship,Sierra (Jolonna, named Stables, suffering froin hernia and general debility was broiigtit ashore at Port Chalmers .inddabbb to the Hospital. The vessel sailed again for ba'jiLFrancisco. Stables died on Tinirsday.

• Geoi F. Walker wins arrested on the Rotomahana, .at Auckland',- on Thursday, prior to her deputure ;'for the South, .charged with mbt zzung £lB, moneys belonging to the Episcopalian Church. Mr C. H. Webber, engineer, of Napier andri-settler, Pahiatua, on Tuesday week to,, inspect land io the Mangatainoko block not been heard of since, Se’arch parties are out. Willi am Jchnstorij'recently from Auckland, was crushed by a falling tree in the bush at Feilding. lie is not expected to live.. , i. i

■ A man named. William. Hnmpson, who had obtained quarters from several hotelkeepers/ by representing himself as a traveller for a wholesale firm, was sentenced at the Police Court, Dunedin, on Thursday, td two months. Wherever he £ tayed, good s’h ad:di’Ha ppearf d. The .police in the Dunedin district have subscribed and presented. purse of sovereigns to Inspector-Wjeltion who goes H'hde on leave of absence'. ; v,| A grazing fanner named Kobe it Aron, was' killed at Blended Thursday evening by ;a wheel passing over his chest. 1 He fell out of a dray.

At the Supreme Ccurt ; Auckland, on Thursday, James-Kay was fiti&l £l, and ordered to 'pay costs, for slandering a solicitor-named English. The charge of perjury against Arthur D, Bennet was dismissed; i ri

In the Wellington Supreme Court on Thursday, a slander action brought by Johnson, ,!a billiard marker, against Blower, a pubhean, the plaintiff was nonsuited ; the slander case Culvert T. Berties was settled, defendant apologising. '■ ■ ■ —■ ' : ■■ 0