TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1520, 2 December 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Sundayflchool Industrial Exhibi tion at; Auckland hatclosed. The total takirigaamourit to£lß4. j - I ’- A haodiome now schooner of 60 ( tons register basbeen built by Sims and Bro tfn of DgvoDpqrt, Auckland, and sold to the King, of Tonga; The schooner has very fine lines and should prove a fast sailer. A serious stabbing esse occurred on Saturday, at Gisborne, whereby, a man named J. Mullane waa stabbed'in the region of the heart by Tamchakj.a Russian, Mullane is now onl of danger. : The -Education Deparimbqt ; have adopted J. H. Wallace’s Manual of New Zealand History as one of the standard ' text books for use of State Schools ia the colony.' There was a terrific thunderstorm at a pier on Monday afternoon tfith’yery heavy rain. The lightning struck: a chimney in a hotisu in- Milton ro«d. rccupied by Humphreys, 'toing 00-idei-able damage, hat no one whs hurt. A ca ,f et corps wan formed.at Hokitik , on Monday night, nnd 76 w.-re enrolled. M«jot Bopar, com rr adding the distric. has received applications signed by 126 youths at Gnymonth asking periiiissiob to form one there also. Th- Dunedin City Council on Monday night adopted with elight alterations the Special Retrenchment Committee’* repon, which will effect a s*»iog of over, £<l6oo. , This, with previous retrenchment; makes a total saving of over £SBOO. A fire took place Monday night at Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, when the shops occupied by Peter 8011, draper, and George Coleman, grocer, were comp etely gutted. The fire ia supposed to have originated in a corner of Coletpan’s shop, where matches were kept, The; salvage from both stocks is oonsiH-rab'e. Bell’* insurances amounted to £4OOO, and his stock alone was va ued at £7llOO. Coleman’s insurances amounted 'v £950. ■ A yonng man named Thus. Barnhill Adamson wae drowned while bathing in the Wailtbpjii, near Gladstone (Southland), on Tutedayafteinoon. ' At an adjourned inquest op tbe body of Joeepb Amo* Woleey, at tihristohi fob, whose death was supposed to have been accelerated by injuries received in a fight * with another lad, a verdict of death' f rbin • natural causes (peritonitis) was returned. . The jury did not attach blaine to anyone 1 in iheit verdict. The e.a. Mariposa, with the London mails of the 11th November, left San Francisco for Auckland on the 22nd November, two days late. The e.p; Australia,with the November odlonia I zmails, arrived at San Francisco on tbe 25th, a day in advance of due date. The civil sittings of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth re-opened on Tuesday, when tbe case Harbor Board v. Sinking Fund Commissioners was partly heard. This ia a case where the Board seek to recover from the Commissioners money placed by mistake in their hahds. At Dunedin on Tuesday a bfiild'wae knocked down by a horse attached to a buggy, and sustained a serious wound in the bead. Tbe same day a young lad named Percy Smith was found iu an unconscious condition oj the Anderson’s Bay road. He is supposed to have fallen . from (the cliff- Tbe boy died shortly after ffis removal to the. bospjjal. * At Auckland, a shifting subscription fund has been started successfully to procure a full sized portrait in oils of Sir Win. Fox for presentation to the art gallery. Several earth tremors, accompanied by underground rumbling, were felt at Rotorua last Monday night. Shortly afterwards Mount Tarawera shot up a dense volume of steam, which lasted 20 minutes. Wahariga Peak apgeaerd the most active. No fire was visible. Some aptings at Ohinemutu showed activity immediately after. By 7-30 everything had settled down to its normal ■ condition. James Mclntyre, licensee of an Auckland hotel, who was charged with selling drink on Sunday was acquitted, 'but a witness named Ueydon, who ' admitted having falsely represented himself as a bondfide traveller is being prosecuted. The Rotomahena brought 3 boxes of gold for the Bank of New Zealand. The Auckland police are putting a stop in country districts to the practice of' refiling horses.’ About 10 o’clock on Tuesday night a fire occurred in Pratt s buildings, Colombo street Christchurch. The shop occupied by Mosdames Hill and Williams,, dressmakers, was gutted. Their stock wasi insured for £2OO in the Standard. The ; stock in the ad- , joining shops, occupied by Mills, tailor, •rid Lawrence Brothers, shoemakers, was injured by wafer. Mills’ stock was insured for £SOO to the Colonial, and Lawrence’s "for £l5O in the. Liverpool, London amT Globe. Taylor’s grocers’ stock, next, to Mills’, was damaged by water, and is insured for £650 to th 6 Guardian office. 1 The cause of the fire ii ■nppoaed tojbe accidental. J... A mTn "named Richard Beale was committed for trial’ at ,+be Kesident,Magi«trato’* Court Ashburton, on Tuesday, op a charge' (if indecently assaulting a young girl at Mount Somers.