TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1819, 22 November 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cook and Sons’ Tourist Agency office, Victoria Arcade, Auckland, was formally onaned at noon on Tuesday, when Mr E. E. Bilhrough, manager for New Zealand, invited an assemblage of leading citizens to cake and wine in the office, which is handsomely furnished.

George Allen, a youth of seventeen years of age, ha® baen treated at the Auckland hospital for injuries sustained while out shooting with aome companions in the neighborhood of Onehunga on Monday. One of his comrades accidentally discharged in Allens face a rifle loaded with blank cartridge. His face and eyes were injured, but not seriously.

The final revision of the new Volunteer Regulations is now taking place, and it is expected that they will be gazetted this week. It is not intended that they sh 11 be brought into operation until the corameneement of the next Volunteer year.

At the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company the report, recommending a dividend of 8 per cent., was adopted. Referring to the Melbourne Exhibition the chairman said that the exhibits of the Company’s goods had not only h m. appreciated by every New Zealander who visited the exhibition, but had been a universal object of attraction to all who attended, and bad induced increased trade. - It was decided to authorise the directors to subscribe £250 towards the guarantee fund of the Duoedin exhibition. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, Christchurch, have recently started a tailoring department in connection with their concern, but it is stated that the Wellington, Kaiapoi, end other southern factories, have determined for some reason not to supply them with cletb, and, in consequence, the association are compelled to send their wool to Auckland to be manufactured into tweeds, blankets, etc. A portion of the Christchurch gas works has been fitted up as a glass factory by Mr E. Smethnrsl, formerly of Eaiapoi. On Monday several articles were made from glass sand procured from various parts of Canterbury, most of it being from Mount Somers. The glass is free from green or purple tint, but looks very slightly dull or milky. Tar is used in firing instead of coal, and it is claimed that a considerable saving in cost is effected thereby. Alexander Watson, painter, of Rsngiora, and his son had a narrow escape in the Ashley on Monday morning. The river was high and they were crossing at the upper ford in a trap when the horse gob into a quicksand and in its struggles overturned the vehicle. The occupants were swept down and the boy managed to grasp Watson, who with great difficulty swam with him to a spot from which they reached the bank. The horse was drowned.