TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1652, 27 October 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Tests made of quartz found in reefs at Te Puke, near Tauranga, show that tbo ■tone is not payable. A. public meeting will be held at Tanranga on Saturday to urga on the Government the necessity of opening up Cronn and Native Lands for settlement.

Archibald Mai lock, manager of Singer's Sewing Machine Agency at Christchnrchcb, was committed for trial y«Bterd»y on a charge ef embeß&ling £2l belonging to the Company.

The Directors of the Press Association have arrived at a unanimous con* clnsion, after careful consideration, that it is expedient in t<ie interests of the Association that one of their own staff should be sent to Sydney ai agent for the Association in Australia. Pending further arrangements Mr Atack, the General Manager, will go to Njdney and remain their for six months in order to arrange the details of the new serrice.

At the Danedin Police Court yesterday morning Rudolf Henrick Wagner, was sentenced to one year's hard labor for fraudulently obtaining £6 6s from Mr Owen McNally. lne prosecutor is a cancer patient in the hospital and the accused extorted money on the plea of getting physic which would put McNally to sleep oo that be would never wake again, Tbe physic turned out to be cough mixture. Henry Davidson was committed for trill on a charge of •ending a letter to Joseph Slater, demanding £lO and threatening in default of payment to lay an information against Slater for seduction.