TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1764, 17 July 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Operations were commenced at Westporb on Sunday for launching the Suva, A shock of earthquake was felt at Barry's Bay, north Canterbury, at twenty minutes to four on Saturday morning.

Mr F. G. Hawley, one of the earliest schoolmasters in Canterbury, died at his residence in Ghristchurch on Saturday morning. Sheep owners in North Canterbury are about to take combined action to prevent sheep-stealing, which has developed rapidly in the district. Tho Governor left "Wellington by the Wakatipu for Melbourne, via Sydney, at 12.45 yeuterday. Mr Louisson, Mayor of Ghristchurch, was also a paesenger., In the Bankruptcy Court, Dunedto, on Saturday, tbe Judge refused the discharge of Bobwrt Patterson McLeod, because the balance-sheet was wilfully misleading. A meeting of Chinese at Auckland, on Saturday, arranged to pay the passages of a number of Celestials, who wish to return to China, by the first tea ship calling there. At the Dunedin City Court on Saturday, Mrs Lemner was fined £5 and costs for sly grog-selling. The Bench made the penalty light owing to the husband's recent conviction.

A gardener at Ghristchurch was going home on Saturday with a bottle of brandy in his pocket, when he was accosted by two men, who followed him and eventually snatched the bottle of spirits, valued at 3s, out of his pocket, and ran off. He gave chase, and eventually both men were caught and taken to the lock-up. In Banco yesterday, at Chriatchurch, Mr Justice Ward upheld the decision of the Commissioner of Stamps in the case of Thomas Greenwood (deceased) that the mortgage on the property in the colony was liable to duty under the "Deceased Persons Estates Act," though at the time of the mortgagee's death both mortgagee and mortgagor were resident in England. The annual.meeting of the Auckland Branch of the Educational Institute on Saturday adopted an address to Mr O'Sullivan, late Inspector of Schools, on his retirement, and also passed a resolution thanking the Rev. E. Gulliver, late President of the Institute, and regretting his his possible removal from Auckland. Mr .Ralph Stewart was elected President for the ensuing term.