TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1527, 18 December 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At Auckland during a fit of insanity an Austrian named Giovanio Domintcto, a gum digger, cut his throat. The wound exposed the windpipe.' iHe is in the hospital, end is likely to recover. A duel, wFich two Italians had arranged to fight at Newton (Wellington), on Wednesday, was prevented by the police. The Government has received fifteen applications for the positioa of Inspector of Machinery. .... The monthly expenditure for relief by the Wellington Benevolent Society for the past four mouths has averaged £240. ■T The question of licensing out a girl from the Dunedin Benevolent Institution to Low, a freethinker, has been again before the Committee of the Institution. Application was made by another person for the same girl, and the Chairman held that Low’s application, which bad been postponed till after the examination, was not before the Committee. Most-bf the members did not agree with this, and the matter was adjourned till after the annual meeting of subscribers. Recently an inquest was held on the body of John Currie, a labourer, who died suddenly while at tea at Mount Hyde, Otago. Death had apparently been caused by suffocation, although he had put nothing into his mouth. After evidence had been heard, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. The enquiry into the striking of the Kawatira on Rangitoto Island has remitted in the suspension of Captain Metcalf’s certificate for one month, and that of the chief officer, Mr H. Abbot, for three months. The costs of the enquiry, £lO 10s, were ordered to be paid by the Captain and Chief Officer. A carpenter named F. Allan was found in the Christchurch Domain on Thursday morning, and in great pain. The police ■were sent for, but before they arrived the. man was dead. In his pockets were some pawn tickets, and beside him was an empty brandy bottle and some carpenters’ tools. A Gazette notice states that the curlew has ceased to be native game: Bishop Cowie (Anglican) has written a letter to Bishop Luck (Homan Catholic) expressing sympathy with the Catholics in their great loss by the destruction of St. Benedict’s Church. The president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce has sent the following telegram to Government;—“ The Chamber respectfully urges the Government to arrange for through passenger route from Wellington to Auckland by rail and ateam.” The Auckland Supreme Court on Thursday granted 102 applications for discharge in bankruptcy. A man named McSweeney was killed on the road between Bulls and Turakina on Wednesday, by the capsizing of a dray. A youth named John Mawhinny was taken to the Masterton hospital at midnight on Wednesday suffering from concussion of the brain, the fracture of both thighs, and one leg below the knee. The accident occured while felling trees in the bush. The Stamp Department has just completed a sot of stamps of values ranging from Id up to 2s for the Samoan Government. The design of the stamp is a cocoanut tree The Tongariro sailed from Wellington for London at five o’clock on Thursday afternoon, and the four sea lions recently taken at the ’Auckland Islands were shipped by her. The Hon. Mr Ballance delivered an address at Oamaru on Thursday night on land settlement, to a large audience. William Skitch, a Dunedin publican, was on Thursday fined £lO and costs, £4 Bs, for tampering with corporation gas meter, by unscrewing a pipe,, and so carrying the gas he was using past the meter. The body of a Maori woman was found on the beach at Okaru (Southland) horribly mutilated. She was blind and left the pah three days ago to get flax, and was never seen alive afterwards. It is supposed she fell over a precipice. A crowded public meeting at Hokitika last Wednesday night passed a resolution against thedeviation of the Grey-Hok'tika railway desired by Mr Seddon. They protested against this interference, and urged Government not to allow further interference. The meeting broke up at midnight. Mr Seddon spoke two hours. The Boy’s Brigade roams at Christchurch were opened on Wednesday evening with a lea meeting; 80 boys were present. Arrangements have been made for classes in writing, drawing, and drill. At Christchurch on Wednesday Albert Payne and Alice Payne, bis wife, were committed for trial on a charge of burglary at Mills’,'shop last week, at R. Painter’s, drapers, on July 30, and at Benjamin Button’s painter’s shop on August l l6. The value'of the goods alleged to hare been stolen is £BO. The Premier was present at the annual breaking up of the Boy’s High School at Dunedin on Thursday, presenting the prizes. The rector stated that, the Board of Governors afUr consultation with bitn would make a new departure next- year. An attempt was to be made to create a distinctly modern school. The modern side in older schools ; had been crowded by incompetent idlers and dunces, but it would be necessary now to exact from that class as much ' bard, serious and energetic work' as if they were studying' Latin or Greek J The Premier said he if colony was to prosper they must have mote education at whatever cost.