TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1525, 14 December 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Major Atkinson has completely recovered from his late accident. Mrs Atkinson’s health, however, has in no way improved. - , In the Uompensrtion Court, Wellington, yesterday, J. C. Crawford whs awarded £6OOO, inclusive of interest, for land taken by the Government for defence purposes. The Crown have also to construct and maintain a fence between Mr Crawford’s property and the defence works. Mr Howard Vincent, M.P., has written to Mr Tole applauding the Prisoners Probation Act. The monthly escort to Dunedin brought £25,000 worth .of .gold. The shareholders in the National Insurance Company are taking concerted • action with the object of getting the Directors to consider the propriety of returning to shareholders the entire capital subscribed at the time of the new issue of shares. A six-year-old son of a farmer named Orossan, at : White Sow Valley, near Naseby, was crushed to death by a stone roller passing oyer hiiw. The weather in Otago was distressingly cold on Sunday, and there wert frequent heavy falls of hail all'day. ■ The barque Beltona from Mauritius, has arrived at Port Chalmers. ’’ ’ Sir G. Whitmore inspected the Wellington Volunteers to the number of 540 ou Saturday alttraoon. Sir G. Whitmore said the compared favorably with any other in the colony. A fire, supposed to be caused by a chemical explosion, broke out at two o'clock on Saturday morning in the premises of Kempthorue and Prosser’s Drug Company, next door to - the Post Office buildings, Auckland. The fire was discovered by Mr Humus, a telegraphist, who gave’ the‘alarm. Sergeant Litton, followed by the fire brigade, soon extinguished * the flames, which were bursting! from a shed in the yard. The fumes of muriatic and sulphuric acid seriously affected severaT of the firemen. The damage was confined to a few cases, the bursting of which apparently caused the outbreak. The licensees of the Palace and Criterion hotels were charged at the Christchurch li.M. Court on Thursday with allowing intoxicating liquor to be supplied to two boys 14 and 15 years old. The wife of gne licensee and tfie harpaaid employed by the other were charged with supplying the liquor. The evidence showed that the youngsters, with another boy aged sixteen, got three half-pints of shandy-gaff each, then a bottle of shandy gaff, finishing up with some brandy which another hoy fetched them, Une got helplessly drunk, anqther nearly so, but the third, who did not touch the brandy, ran away on a policeman approaching. The defence was that the licensees were not liable, as they were both absent when the boys were served, and that the persons who served them believed them to be over 16 years old. . The case: was adjourned till Monday,