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Temuka Leader, Issue 1766, 21 July 1888, Page 2

Edward Smith, head shepherd on teramea Downs Station, was lost in the snow on the ranges, and his body was found on the 18th instant by a search party. Principal Qrant, from Canada, lectured to a crowded company in Knox Church, Dunedin, on Thursday night. He urged reciprocity with Canada, cheaper postal and cable rates, and the strengthening of the connexion between England and the colonies*. The Union Company received a cable dated Calcutta, 12th, announcing the arrival of the Tekapo. She lost 35 horses on the voyage. The steamer left Wellington on June 9th, and consequently made a good passage. The heavy mortality is probably accounted for by the fact that she arrived in very hot waather. At a fire at Benheim the occupier of the premises, Longman, was accidentally found is a back yard, gagged, and bound hand and foot. He said he had been overpowered by two burglars, aod was bound and left on the kitchen floor, while the men, after setting fire to the place, decamped, The story caused tremendous excitement at first, but" quantity of furniture and stiift were found planted in the We-deyan Church grounds, and documents were found on Longman, proving that he had just come from Masterton, not Melbourne, as he said. H* has been arrested. The insurance's w re £IOO on the building in the Union, and £SO on the furniture in the South British,