TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1762, 12 July 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

At Nasfeby on Tuesday thera was a fall of two feet of snow. Owing to the heavy rain it is highly iiuprobable there wi 1 be any coursing at . Dunedin to-day. At the Supreme Court, Christchurch, a I decree nisi was granted in the divorce case Bowern v. Bowern. Mr Tizird, late Co'lector of Customs at the Thames, retires on a pension of £IBO 193, dating from Ist inst. In'the football match-between Loeston and frwell on Saturday last, Mr D. Blyth, of Leeston, had his collar-bone broken. There are suspicions of foul pi iy in the case of William McMillan who waß (supposed to have committed auic de at Point Resolution, Auckland, last week The police are m iking enquiries. A'exander McLeod, a patient of the Canadian doctors, died at Auckland on Monday. He came down from Whangnrei suffering from paralysis and consumption He used the Cunudian perfume but sank rapidly. No inquest will be held, as Dr Kenderdine has given a certificate of death.' W. P. Suiter, brewer, was examined in the Bankruptcy Court, at Auck and on Tuesday and stated, the total bad debts incurred last year was ovor £3OOO and he lost nearly £IOGO through bad malt. Ouriog two years he lost £1403 on the Bricklayers' Arms Hotel and £ISOO in advances to other hotels.

Government have not yet received official intimation of the Thames policy of repudiation, but they are almost certain to put in a receiver of revenue there. Attention lias also been directed to the fact that the cost of administration at the Thames is 27£ per cent of the incomp, and the highest percentage in any otl.er part uf colony is of per cenf. The fact will 1)9 enquired mlo with the object of effacing Mich economy as will enaolt interest to be puid for the future,