TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1518, 27 November 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Matilda Jones was committed for trial at Auckland for unlawfully nutating. w A cbUferbncie took placCat Auckland on Wednesday’ be'ween the Boatd of Education and the City School Committees bb to the best method of wptking, the compulsory claused*Ut thsi Act;’ it v was stated that 200 children are waiting admission to the public schools, but-that there is no accommodation \ •nggested to,establish a truant 800, in the city. ' ! The wife of Mr J, C. McKay, J.P., of MerceX (AUkklahd), wisidund dead on the floor of her The Hon. Mr Waldgrave, who,hfiß jusf visited Tonga, Btatee. ae hie. idpreWeior that adhereutd to the WdsleyatalMielion' are praoticallrsubjectod' tft Government preasure, and social disabilities'add’ persecution, and that absolute f<?r religious worship does not exist." 1 " The men employed on the .Porouton (Auckland), tutiftel W the Main Trunk Railwayetruck work lately for anadvanea of waged from Os Od to l(Je per day, with a reduction of boarding charges from 25s to 20a per week. Man word to go from the Thames, but had to be paid lOe per day. - The ebargee against the mao Bejl" for indecently assaulting children 'In ‘ the Anglican Church vestry, at Woodville resulted ia his being committed for trial. At Christchurch on Wednesday Mr Beetbam, ft.M., dismissed with costs the appeal of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company againet the Property Tax Commiaaioner. The Company objected to pay tax on £3s,oooj“'inteteßt transmitted to London. Mr Beethara held that as the money was collected in the colony it was liable to taxation. At a meeting of delegates from the country A. and P. Associations held at DoocdiUv o ? Wednesday evening, about forty {peisons were present, representing eleven societies. A resolution waa passed that the farmers reaiat the charge of allow- * iug 2£ per cedt discount on grain, and that all bags be paid for or returned. AtjHawera the case against Maclean on a charge of being in possession wf a gun with unlawful;- intent bam assumed a new form. The charge now ia an dale.' At the court on Wednesday morning the evidence showed that McLean fired at Iredale when'sixty yards off him, but rpiiaecLj| The\ reason? alleged* by prisoner for hie action is that Iredale ■educed hie wife. Iredale denies that he did ao. He was committed for trial.

Sir Julius Vogel has received a cable message from the Agent-General stating that the San Fraucisco mail will henceforth be sent from Southampton by the German Lloyd’s line. This is the result of the dispute mentioned in the cables Ibis week. The food boats, and the change is expected, if anything, to shorten the time of delivery. Three of the miners on strike at Kaitangata—Ooutts, McMino, and McVie—were on Wednesday charged with various illegal sets, calculated to provoke a breach ! of the peace. The case arose onto! a recent demonstration atainetiihe manager. Coutts was fined £1 and costs and ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for six months, and the other two were fined in similar amounts, Tue amounts were paid. A young man named George Webster, of Waitahuoa(Ctago), was drowned while bathing. Among the likely candidates for return for the Maori electoral district are Wahanul, Sydney Wheoro, • / Nicholls Hoani Tapua (Koialti), Matai Pare (Waikato Heads). At the annual meeting of the Prevent tion of Cruelty to Animals Society, Auckland, the accounts showed a deficit of £32165. There had been 14 prosecutions, 2 cautions, and 12. convictions—- . and ; hi's people have taken the blue ribbon through Matthe persuasive eloquence. At Napier the moist weather is repairing. the damage done by the late frost. Potatoes and other vegetables apparently destroyed are sending up fresh shoots, and good though late crops are expected. Three thousand five hundred' shares. in the proposed"woollen factory at Napier have been taken up. The articles of association require five thousand shares to be taken up before operations are commenced. '

A copy 6f the, International Copyright Act, 188fi,' passed by the Imperial Parlia* ment last cession, appears ip the Gaiatte. Mr It. M.H.K. for Sydenham, addressed his oonstiiuenta on Thursday night, and received a vote of thanks, and ■■■ .'■' ■" Giffeny tho" cricketer, is too ill to travel, and remains at Dunedin for a few days. , The dead body found in the rivorOlutha last wleek has been indentifled as, that of Robert Stephenson, who has been missing since the Waoaka races, when under the ioflueßO*<bidrink. . . i< Fears are now entertained ip Dunedin for the.sifety"of' the barque Allahabad, from Glasgow for Otago." She left the Clyde on July 21st, and is Consequently. 146 days at sea. Blip is an iron barque of 1191 tob's register; was built in 1864, and is-owned by'Stephens and Son*, London.