TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 1510, Issue 1510, 9 November 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Auckland . City.- Council have adopted a scheme of retrenchment involving the saving of £3o&6'a year, the case of the aged‘discharged stdnebreakers to be subsequently considered. It is stated-that a party of Canterbury special, settlers are.going to-the north of Auckland oh terms and the yiUage settlement scheme to engage in fruit culture.

Govetnmhnt’ have accepted the tender iof a Christchurch contractor for the erection of the new Governme.q^printing will not be mentioned until,the tender is signed. The ’ Epuni ’(Wellington) Licensing Committee who, hav.e for the past 12 months refused £6 grant a temporary license for the sale of spjritupus liquors at the jHiittj Park jracec6ufsef\have now granted a license for NbvemherSth. A child na’med Nellie Paterson, who was run over by a horseman batSed Win. Pilkiogton, at Oarterton.on Wednesday, died on Friday from fracture of the skull. Pilkington has been arrested.

At Wellington Geo. Raddon and Hy. Watson were on Friday committed fop trisilf for burglary at Shine Bros’. establishment a fortnight' ago. • ! * 5 . There is eyeryrßrospect.of the- Kaitangata strike being settled. ' j^j Mi* Paulin, C.E.,' left .Dajtedin on ’FridsjT bn’ &' !: pfhßpeoting :: t'6or* of the districts in the neighborhood’af-Big Bay. He has a party; of eigbc; with,him, and' they intend,to be away six months. The charge of smuggling watches (being part ! hf ’salvage stock' btonght' by an immigrant), occupied theiNew Plymouth Police Court,for.two days, and Jones was fined £25. -7 ■ i( H.M.S. Miranda from Sydney, en route for England,' arrivedlit Auckland on Friday evening. She’', will ‘leave there some tinde next.week, >: 0 -vit

, She, troopship Thalia ; which.ibrought relief crews for, the OpaLand Raven, is expected at Wellington* within the nest fortnight eh route for England. The Governor arrived at Christchurch Trom Wellington. He visited the Industrial. Association’s rooms yesterday. —On Sn°day afternoon at Christchurch a woman ;named - Gilligan 'iwgsf knocked down by jtrucks that werp bpjng shunted iifa; ■ the .railway, yard. ; .SheljyiMi severely injured, her-hands being crushed, and heild badly .hurt. She iwas “ trespasaicg” when the accident occurred.