TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1546, 29 January 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The barque Johanna Eroderson, from Natal, has arrived at Kaipara with forty* mn'e ostriches. Pne bird was accidentally killed on the voyage, and six died through bad weather. J. arid C. Gardener’s Kaipara fruit, meat and fish canning factory at Koromika, has been burned down. It was insureid in the Imperial for £BSO. The land case, Macatnara v. McArthur, has developed a proportionately great bill of costs. The amount claimed on behalf of plaintiffs was £1691, and the Court of Fiji, by whom the bill was taxed, reduced that amount to £226, Fred. Ellis and William Small were committed for highway robbery at Auckland on Thursday, and Thos. King, Chas. Coleman and Peter Hardy, for robbery of a returned Kimberley digger. Mr Price, a Wellington draper, was fined £4 and 15s costs for allowing girls to work after two o’clock on Saturdays. Mr Pennefather, formerly Secretary to the Governor, and who, while on a recent visit to England, delivered several interesting lectures on New Zealand, returned by the steamer Tekapo from Sydney. He will probably take up his residence in Wellington. At the Dunedin Police Court, the license of a prisoner under the Probationers’ Act was cancelled for disorderly behaviour,and be was sentenced to six months* At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank, the report recommending a dividend of 7 per cent was adopted. A meeting of the Dunedin Charitable Aid Board, to consider the action of the Benevolent Trustees in refusing to supply local bodies with a list of those receiving relief, was held on Wednesday. It was, resolved to ask the Trustees to re-consider their decision. The Mayor of South Dunedin said there were people in his borough receiving relief who were not entitled to it. Some of them were to be seen sending jugs to hotels and some had money on deposit in Banks, Mr Robin, the Chairman, said he viewed with alarm the fact that now in the summer months there was a steady increase in the applications for relief. The Invercargill Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday passed a resolution asking the Government to reduce the inland railway rates on grain. It was not on the ground that the present rates are too high, but because produce is too low to leave the farmer a ny profit for his labor. The unfortunate girl Hicks, the victim of the Mount Rennie outrage, was a passenger by the Tekapo from Sydney to Christchurch on Wednesday. On Wednesday morning Maoris at Ngawapuaoua pulled down a toll gate and. house in the course of erection for the Wairarapa North County Council. The Hinemoa has been testing the coast in the vicinity of Oamaru for fishing grounds, but with little success, The opntiuuecj fought at New Plymouth is likely to seriously injure pasture unless rain soon falls, The natives at Parihaka are holding a tangi. it is expected that a saying of £3QOQ in the year will he shown fo have been effected in the Justice Department- *— ” time Parliament meets. - j y tlie ,o the Dunedin dredge will „ost £3OO or £4OO, in addition to £7OO or £BOO, cost of raising her. At the Dunedin Police Court on Thursday, Constable Fleming was charged with assaulting a man named Broad, a prominent member of the Temperance party, who declares that because—after watching a woman leave the constable and enter an hotel after midnight—he remarked, “ The publicans, policemen, and prostitutes are in league,’ the constable knocked him down and severely maltreated himi The complainant swore

positively to the constable’s identity, but t-in defence was that Fleming was not near the spot. Fleming was fined £3 and costs £2 12s. Her Majesty’s ship Vulture, three guns 1 which was built Sheerness about eighteen years ago, has been sold out of the Royal Navy as unfit for active service. The Vulture was one of the last wooden gun-vessels built for the Royal Navy before the introduction of composite shipbuilding. She was last employed on the East Indies station, where she took a prominent, part in the suppression of slavery. "Bough ok Itch," —" Bough bn Itch ” cures skin humors, eruptions, ring worm, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chilblains, itch, ivy poison, barber’s itch. Kempthorne Prosser & Go,, Agents, Christchurch. 3 Not before nine in the morning and not after the same hour at night may the wandering organ-grinder make the streets of New York resound hereafter. A police order imposing these limits on the barrelorganist also directs the arrest of any person who beats a drum, blows a horn, or makes aimiliar noisy ■ demonstrations on the highway for advertising purposes. Not a Bivbbagk,— " They are not a beverage, bat a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drugs. They do nob tear down an already debilitated system, bnt build it up. One bottle contains more real hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer. Physicians prescribe them. Rochester, U.8.A., Evening Express, on American Hop Bitters, Wri+e on one side of the paper only’ re- j marked the editor to a poetical contributor. “It is easier to read, and we can use the other, side to write editorials on.’’ ’ “ (Jan yon tel 1 the d fference bet ween an egg and a cabbagel” asked yohng Mr Badger. “ I can, ’’ responded Mr Ranter, "I have been on the' public platform ’for ten years." . : , ‘