TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1525, 14 December 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce on Friday to consider the Premier’s' proposal concerning Canadian trade lapsed for want of a quorum. At the Auckland Police Court on Friday, Lund, a powerful man, was sentenced to six months’imprisonment for a brutal assault on a woman with whom he had been cohabiting. At New Plymouth on Thursday a young woman named Emily 'Newland was arrested on a charge of forging a cheque on the Bank of New Zealand for £l, purporting to be signed: by Henry Dempsey, head teacher of the Public School. A seven-roomed house owned by Hammond, was burned down at Gisborne on Friday morning through a lamp bursting. The insurance was £275 in the Standard. A proclamation in the supplementary Gazette, published on Friday night, further prorogues Parliament until the 16th February. Two mining accidents, which almost miraculously escaped being attended wtih fatal results, occurred on Tuesdry at Rerun, West Coast.- John Vincent was sinking a shaft from which a huge boulder was being drawn. When a foot from the surface the windlass broke and fell with the boulder down the shaft. To escape was impossible. The boulder jammed in the shaft during its descen'. The windlass fell on the man. but not seriously injuring him, he being able to walk home after extrication. In the other case a large piece of rock fell on James Perry, in a drive, doing him great injury. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital. At the inquest at Dunedin, touching the death of the child of ;Mr Donnelly, found dead in bed, the evidence showed that her first child had died from being overlaid. A verdict was returned in the present case that the child was smothered, the jury adding a rider that they did not free the mother from blame, ss, after the death of the first child, she should have been more on her guard. It turns out that it was not sheelito which was discovered on the Otago Peninsula, but sandstone. The specimen gave a promising yield of gold. The damage to the steamer Kawatiri, which struck on Rangitoto Island on Tuesday night, is estimated at £IOO. One piato will have to bo repaired, and two others taken out and renewed. Captain Wood, of the barque G. M. Tucker, which arrived at Wellington on Friday evening from Newcastle, reports having passed a portion of wreck at noon on Sunday, about 200 miles off Cape Farewell. The wreckage, which floated bottom upwards, appeared to belong to a vessel of about 200 tons, and was evidently that portion from the stern to about amidships, so that she must have bad her back broken. The Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Show was continued on Friday in very fine weather. The show of draught stock was small, Mr Mclntosh’s Glencoe being the champion entire, and Mr Grey’s Darling the champion mare. Harness and saddle horses were well represented, and of better class than usual. Mr J. McCrosbio takes the N.M. and A. Co.’s cup for Mr W. Morris and the Hon. M. Holmes tied for Cooper and Nephew’s 15 guinea cup for the most points in sheep. The dairy produce was a fine show, the entries being double those of last year, and the quality extremely good and even. The dairy factories were largely represented in the cheese department, the Waimatuku factory, which has just started, taking the first prize for new cheese. The body of a woman found drowned in the Auckland harbour on Tuesday last, and which was buried without being identified, is now supposed to be that of Mrs Christina Traill, a women employed at the City Club hotel, who had been miss.ng since the 29th November, It is hoped that the enquiries which are now being made will result in clearing up the mystery. Last Friday night the Post-Office at Uheawai, Bay of Islands, was broken into and the safe carried off. The Wellington agents of Sir George Grey recently offered Kawau Island for sale to Government, but the latter replied that they had no funds at their disposal for the purchase. The Governor distributed the prizes at the Wellington College on Saturday afternoon. Mrs Jones, who was found, dead in a creek at Pahautanui (Wellington), on Thursday, was the first white woman to land at Wellington. She was 60 years of age, and subj°ct to epilepsy. Proceedings are to be instituted against the Tuapeka County Council in connection with the recent fatal punt accident at Beaumont. The .owner of the team who lost two hrrses and a waggon claims £2OO, and the parents of the girl Thompson £SOO, alleging negligence on the part of the man in charge. The council denies its liability. At Dunedin on Saturday only from 30 to 50 persons attended the meeting called by the Trades and Labour League to take steps to confirm the resolution which had been passed that trade unionists be recommended to cease using Kaitmgata coal until the dispute between the miners and the company had been settled. The resolution was put and carried after a number of speakers had addressed the meeting. At Napier on Friday, T. F. Remoard, found guilty of arson, was sentenced to five years penal servitude. Ostrich farming will shortly be started North of Auckland. Fifty-six ostriches are being brought by a specially chartered ship from the Cape of Good Hope at a cost, including export duty, of £12,000. The vessel is expected to arrive shortly. ■ Mr Chas. R. Cleveland, first mate of the Piako, now lying at Napier, was drowned on Saturday morning. His cap was blown off ioto the eea and he jumped after it, sinking immediately afterwards. He was a splendid swimmer, and it is supposed that he got the cramp or was seized by a shark. His age was 29 years. Two men named Henry Kaye and Henry Evans were crooned at Wellington on Saturday morning. With two others (Walter Bamsden and Edward Taylor) they were out ft r a sail when the boat caps'Z“d. 'All,got on to the keel of the boat, but after a while the deceased became exhausted and were washed off and dr>wned. The others managed to hold out till rescued, Evans was a married man and leaves a wife and three children who reside at Petone. Kaye has a wife and two children in England. The bodies have not been recovered.