TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1785, 4 September 1888, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

John Johns, a highly respected miner at the Thames, died suddenly on Saturday evening. The cause of death was heart disease.

Mary Davies, charged with the attempted murder of her husband at Mount Pleasant, Auckland, has been remanded for a week.

Mr Nairn, manager of the Bank of Australasia, at Hawera, was driving his family to Manaia on Sunday when the horses bolted and upset the buggy approaching the Waingongora bridge. The youngest child, an infant, was badly hurt about the head. The elder child had its ankle sprained. Mr and Mrs Nairn and Mias Eantham were much bruised.

The case of alleged purjury against D. Luckie, Secretary to the Havvkes Bay Jockey Club, brought by his clerk, B. 0. Ware, was dismissed without the defence being called, in the R. M. Court, Napier, yesterday morning. At Woodville a copper lode was struck on Friday, in the lower level, and shows rich ore. The promoters will probably take steps immediately to form a Company to work the lode.

Mrs Agnew, of Otago, was charged at the Wellington E.M. Court yesterday, with provoking behaviour towards the Premier, and was ordered to find surety in £2O to keep the peace for a month.

The General Post Office advises that the slearner Zealandia with the English mails of the 11th August left San Francisco on the 25th August, timetable date. The steamer Mariposa with the Colonial mails of the 13th arrived at ’Frisco from Auckland on the Ist inst,, one day early. Kincaid House, the residence of A. W. Inglis, at Kaikoura, was burned down an Sunday night. Very little was saved. Inglis lost a Jot of valuable plate, a number of family relics, and a fine library. The fire was discovered about 9 o’clock, when all the inmates were in bed. Insurance, £450 in Victoria Insurance Company. The Janet Nicoll, eight days from Bundaberg, arrived at Nelson, yester- 1 day, withT 12,880 bags sugar for Nelson, 4924 for Wellington, 6160 for Lyttelton, and 6400 for Dunedin. John Walker, an old resident at Opoho, North East Valley, Otago, over 70 years of age, was found dead in his bed on Saturday. He must have been dead a couple of days when discovered. He leaves considerable property, but : no relatives in the colony. a rumor was persistently circulated at Dunedin, on Saturday and Sunday, which caused a great deal of alarm, to the effect that the Eotomahana, from the Bluff to Melbourne, had met with a disaster and had become a total wreck. Some people went so far as to state that all hands and all the passengers had been, drowned. A couple of very old wooden buildings in Maclaggau street, Dunedin, almost opposite the Police Station, were destroyed by fire on Sunday evening. They were occupied by Chinamen and owned by Mrs A. Pavleticb, who bad no insurance upon them. One Chinaman ran out the front way and some others escaped at the rear, while some of the usual occupants were luckily out at the time. Within a few seconds only from the fire first being noticed the whole place was in a blaze, the material burning like tinder. Of the two destroyed, one was occupied by Ah Fow, who had a policy of £6O in the Equitable office upon his stock of greengroceries, lollies, Chinese crackers, and such like miscellaneous goods. The adjoining premises were occupied by Ah Bing, who had no insurance on his stock.