TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1521, 4 December 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

. At the, Auckland. City V School Committee a resolution'' *wat;! carried that separata.; school accommodation be provided, at once for the purpose of bringing , into . practical operation, .tbt 'cpjnpuisory clauses of,the Education .Act, and that a truant officer be employed: ‘ ' The ‘Mission schooner Southern Cross arrived at Auckland on Wtdn-sday, morning from a cruise to the New Hebrides, Solomon, Bank|’ Islands, ; Torres and Norfolk Island. The passengers from N6rfolk ; Island are the Rev. Mr and Mr» Bice and three children, Rev. Mr and Mrs, Cpmmins, Rev. Mr Brit tan, Mr Rossiter, Misses Brothers and Palmer. Everything'at the Islands is re*' ported qhiet. ' ; Teller, a settler at Urenhi, near New Plymouth, was thrown from his horse on Tuesday and picked up unconscious. It . is thought he is suffering from'concussion of the brain. 1 . On Wednesday morning the saddler’s , shop at Lincoln belonging to J. F. Finn, was ,burned d0wn..:,.1t -was..insured for < £250 in the Phesuii. '• ’he'cart-c is unknown. , • , 4 4 On Saturday evening a geven-roomcH house at Spririgston, : belonging to M s Mary Elizabeth Smith,.was destroyed t y fire it was insured for £275. The v furniture, which was' destroyed, was 4 insured for £2OO, At Christchurch there have'lately been complaints of children heing' seen in a state of intoxication, ind the police have decided to take proceedings against two publicans for supplying liquor to boys. A Mr Woodward, writing from the Kimberley goldfields says that the gold obtained up to the present has be*n unearthed at a cost of £SO an ounce. Nearly all the goldseekers from Christ-- 1 church haye sold off their belongings and gone back to Derby. Mr E. P. Barnes, who made the highest aggregate score in the match with the Australians at Christchurch, has been made the recipient of three,, jSouyenirs from admirers of bis play, a bat from Mr A. M. Ollivier, a guinea from Mr Samuel Stewart, and a trophy from Mr Bergh. The report presented at : -tbe annual meeting of the North Canterbury and Ashburton Charitable Aid- Board on Wednesday stated?, that there were 379 /• persons receiving relief besides 100 children in the industrial schools. At the inquest at Dunedin bn Wednesday on the body of the lad Percy Smith, who was killed by a fall from a cl ff, a companion, who was with him, said. that Smith had climbed a cliff from which he ’ had seen two birds fly, and that he slipped .- and fell. A verdict of “Accidental) Death ” waa returned.' \/. A ybung than named Charles Findlay, son of a farmer at theiTaiefi-'twas found with his,neck broken, onused,; it is supposed, by being thrown from the dray he was driving. E ■' > ■ ■ ** , Ths Electric Lighting, Company, t« light Reefton by electricity, has been successfully floated. The capital'is represented by 20,000 shares at 5s^ ,j At noon on the , 7th of = November, while the ship Turakina was going 9j knots, there being a heavy sea, John Sullivan, an A. 8., whilst stowing the jib, fell overboard. The; secondjoflioer, *ho was on deck, brought the ship to the wind, and hove a life bhoy over, but m - fortunately the man was never seen on the surface, the ship apparently going, over him after he fell. The men stowing the jib with bun state 1 ' that hh had a fit.-.-i when he fell. Sulliysn, ias 22 years of age, and was last in the ship Dunedin. Shortly after midnight the store of Hibbs Bros., at Methven, was destroyed by fire. The wMltcei'dbhtal. The insurances amounted to £1349. The Invincible •Coimp«ny i(Otago) h.s crushed 1960zs from 260 tons'of quartz. , A child named Hannon, who was knocked, down at Dunedin on the 30 h ’ November by a horse bolting, has died ’ from the effects of his injuries. A verdict of accidental death wa returned. At the annua! meeting of the Walton Park Coal Company/ iho report ret ammending an *B/per- .cent dividend was • adopted* and Hie retiring directors wee re-elected. A,complaint was agaiu made that the Company; did not receive a fair opportunity of/supplying (ihalf to the Government rail ways. - ■ or 1 The committee ; of. the Blue Ribbon ; Band bazaar at loveicargi l, to be held next'iweetc, have agreed that.Mm ruffling, games of chance, Shooting .galleries,- or gambling in- any shape or form shall lie allowed. Some of the members thought exception should be made in favor of shooting galleries, but the majority ruled against , them. . /- V The,dairy factory movement is meeting with.great favour in.South'and. Ne>',y a dozen are already at work, and others are projected. Every/ inland centre « ill soon • possess one. Milk, foV the mod; pai c, is taken 10 the factories over maos, but in some instances it is sent ten or , twelve miles by ru.il!' Vrm. Lankhiihij (he wel -known , cricketer, has died of coosumpiion at Auckland, aged 25, ,! Dr McGregor, Inspector^general ■ -v Asyfem, left Auckland for th South . > Thursday. The difficulty of the Avon/' Asylum is now completely reti led. Bigm of the male attendants withdiew tin-.r resignations, and the other y«c.n.me- w r.tilled up. '"Dr McGregor"beheviH , . matters will now run smoothly, A little boy named Herber F r drowned in the Tiikiuki rivei, JJ«y,whila bathing,