TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1783, 30 August 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

The ship. Otaki, from London, arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday. Cable advices have b 'an received of the death of Wil iam Kennedy, an old Dunedin resident. A four-roomed house at Tomahawk, Otago, the property of Robert Mackerras,, was burned down. Insurance, £l3O in the Equitable. At AucHannd, yesterday, Aithur Kirk was fined £lO and cods for taking rock oysters from the beach at Coromandel dating the close season. At the R.M. Court, Greymouth, on Monday, a yon'h named S'.one was committed for trial at the.sitting of the Hokitika Supreme Court for criminal assault on a child two and a-half years old John Maloney was committed for trial at Invercargill, yesterday, on a charge of attempting to murder Dr Galbraith. The ■hooting took place on Jane 19, but the doctor was unab'a to walk out of the house till yesterday. He received over one hundred pellets in the left thigh, thirty-'liree of which have bsen since extracted. He is now out of danger. The Premier has rec ived the fol'owing cable message from Mr J. H. Withford, from Melbourne—“ I am not the author of telegram imputed to me by Hector. 1,

as authorised representative of large mining interests in New Zealand, deeply regret that Parliament and the Press of the country have been made mediums for promulgating a serious redaction on our mining negotiations in Australia. In justice to the goldfia'd community 1 beg permission to lay before the House this unqualified contradiction of Hector’s statement regarding myself and specimens of quartz supplied by companies. ’ Alexander Darling’s fellmong«ry, near Invercargill, was burned down oa Tuesday night. About 5 p.m. the chimney of a dwel ing close to the works caught fire, but the flames were extinguished and everything made apparently safe. A spark from the chimney, however, must have lodged in the roof of (he shed nearest the house, for about half-past six a fire broke out at that particular spot. The fire spread rapidly, and the eight sheds of which the works were composed were soon destroyed. The residence and stable were saved, and a few bales of wool were got of the burning building. Most of the bones, of which there were about £SOO worth in stock, were left untouched, but the valuable machinery with which the works were fitted, including a new bone mill, an engine, a large boiler, and two tallow digesters were more or legs injured. Darling estimates that the stock; and material on band was worth at least £IOOO. The property was insured for about £I2OO in the New Zealand office.