TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1506, 30 October 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Thar'|epderi ,pf ; fFod anch Hd,l I Sift'd, of ffff tM erection of four-storey new officas in Auckland for the Mutual Life Association of Australia, The contract price is £II,OOO.

The Government have cabled to the Eastern Extension Cable Company declining to submit th ( e question in dispute re the subsidy and reduction in charges to ! arbitration. The Minister of Public Works has received a telegram from the Government {agent in the King Country to the effect i that men in search of work are using the lever from the Natives. Not long since {Europeans dared not encroach upon the King Country. j The only damage sustained by the steamer Jane Douglas when she struck a rock at Kapiti was the cracking of one of ithe plates ?tp(se)-holei ! Mr Justice Williams gave an important decision under the Distress Act[ at Dunedin on Wednesday. , A.sewing machine hired in the usual'’way 1 , J was distrained Upon for rent by the landlord and the {Magistrate held that section five, made lirticles hired without the consent of the andlord distrainable. Mr Justice Wiliams held that section three reversed the former principle, and the landlord Jp' feapeqj; , ;i o£' goods of Jion his. premises. IJev rhe CQuld not ascertain wjjiy’Wdtidn fivh'Va's 1 fmroduced into the Act, and he thought it should be Regarded as surplusage. He, therefore, reversed the decision of the Magistrate. I Subscriptions are being raised for Cnffrey’s defence among the seamen of {Auckland. , ■ ’ ’ The body of a woman has been found in the Thames river lias been identified as that of Mrs McLiven, of Wajfohgomai, It is believed that she met her death accidentally by falling into the river when watching the boat races a fortnight ago. | Excitement continues on the Waikato Regarding the strange carnivorous monster said torrfea.-flfc Soma volunteers tiffereii l fd ! d6'sentry duty kt the, -slaughter-house,i.huti it! has-been; decided to set a self-acting tfapdh catch the animiiLalivei V,. ■■ ;.«• ;»*•.*: • i Sir Julius^Vogel will attend the'Christchurch! races, and leaves on the sth : inst; 1 in. Ihe HlnCmoa’, withflisßxcellencythe Govefhori h ’ ! At the Bankruptcy Court, Wellington, dn a butcher of Porura and Pahutunui, who recently filed his schedule, was sentenced to fourteen .days, without , hard , labour, .for ,neglecting’ to.keep .pr.oper accounts, and his certificate was suspended for. six , months, ; }i - ;.i ;s /1 - a ■ A telegram fromlOtaki states Jthat Hema Puke Te Ao, M.H.R., is dangerVpsly ill. ,i ,i 7 • * ’'< ""• i Giacouo; Scarpa, a;miner, was killed by a fa|l:.!of. earMbihnhjsi borangb,vltulßara l ) pniWeduesday. - j The Compady of Hew'Zefali’nil hits' declared a dividend of ten per cent for the-| 1 ( Government-having, .refjjqed to accept, less 2g\6fl |>er 'Dunedin Harbor Board has decided to /employ (free. labor, 'jr-; .■ i.j- io: i r” i ! Henry Percy Fisher-was committed for trial at.Dubedin oil Thursday on a chaVge 'of unlawfully escaping) from- custody. He was’also I committed on two charges of. larceny. , His behaviour in the.. dock ‘was bold and<defiant. ; ; The Grange Grand Lodge, Auckland,' {sent a circular to the Protestant ministers Auckland desiring 1 them to. preach thanksgiving services! oh Sunday nearest Nqvember.:i6th, in memory of the de,liverance> from ..;the gunpowder 'plot. BishopHowiev in hisweply, said be would, gladiy i-Oomply ifj'he-'aid it" would do more barm than gbod. While the "deliverance of November 6th $ 1605,-! shoiild fi'ot' be forgotten, he did not think it should in'a manner offensive to any otherfellow citizens.