TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1517, 25 November 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mails have been received from Tonga. Matters are quiet. The British Consul, Mr Powell,' left Samoa for England to. give evidence before commission, and Mr H. F« Symonds, of Tonga Labu, has been appointed instead. ■ . John Johnston, engineer of the steamer Kauu, on opening the manhole of the boiler rather f-too soon, got severely Maided by the stream. He was taken to the hospital ftt Auckland. His injuries are not likely to prove fatal. Samuel Bennett, a prisoner now Undergoing sentence for burglary, was on Monday, »t Auckland, sentenced for trial for. a ' similar: pffedce committed in February last. ■ . The Native chief Tairet, of Palea, has decided to" contest the Western Maori . Electorate. _' .Typhoid fcver is prevalent in Maxwellton, near Wanganui. It is supposed to be due to milk. A girl named Thompson, daughter of a resident at Beaumont (Otajjo), was drowned while crossing the Clutha.in a puat, A waggon with some six tons of merchandise, which was on board, was thrown into the river, and the goods, to the value of about £250, lost.- The puntsman and two other men who were on it when it broke away from the rope were got ashore two miles down the river. The Hon. E. Richardson visited the rooms of the Industrial Association, Cbrifltchureh, on Monday, and the President and Committee who received him urged the need for tbe erection of industrial halls in the principal cities of the colony. The Minister promised to do hiß best, but he added that with the present . cry for retrenchment, the prospects of a money grant were not promising. On Monday last at Timaru the purchasers of the wreck Lyttelton succeeded in recovering part of the refrigerating

machinery. The machinery is one mass ■ of rust and is much broken op, but the owners are well satisfied with its condition. At a meeting of the Auckland Caledonian Society, a motion to viiud up was negatived, but as the financial position is not thoroughly satisfactory it was decided to reconstruct the Society. Robert Bow was killed by a fall of earth on the road work at Kawakawa, Auckland. t . Some rich ground is being l worked in the black sand lead on the North Tawn belt, Hokitika. The prospectors are getting three ounces to the load. The Auckland Sunday School Union Industrial Exhibition was openrid on Tuesday by B'ehop Cowie. Fifty-seven schools represented 2000 exhibits. ; Lientenaot Andrew, of Cbrietehurch, who was recently appointed to the second battalion of the Essex regiment, stationed in Egypt, has received instructions from the Horse Guards to proceed to Londuu at once.. He will therefore probub'y leave the colony by the rieit direct steamer. At the request of the Protection League Sir Julius Vogel has consented to address a public' meeting ©n Protection before he leaves Dunedin, but he has intimated that bis views will probably not go tho length the rsquisionistv desired. The Otago Acclimatisation Society has resolved to petition Government to pfoi' Dibit netting in the upper harbor, Dunedin, owing to the large number of small fish, -especially flounders, which are caught.

Mr Lickeo, of Christchurch, who has been botanizing at the head waters of the Shotover, in the lake country, Otago, has reached Arrowtown with some good samples of gold, and has arranged for •ending out a prospecting party. A meeting of the unemployed, atttended by over 100, was held on Tuesday morning at Aacklund. A Socialistic harrangue was delivered by the agitator Garrard, advising the unemployed to join the volunteer force and get rifles and ammunition into their hands. A committee was appointed to wait on the Mayor, and ask him to telegraph to Government requesting that public works be provided. The meeting adjourned till Monday next. •