TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1825, 6 December 1888, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Twoboys about 9 years of age were fa B canoe on the Mangawuere creek, Taupiri, .Auckland, on Sunday, when their bo it npset. One named Stubbin swam ashore, but the other lad, Andrew Eluddon, son of a settler at Taupiri, was drowned.

Advices by the Zealandia state that the Melbourne land boom has ignominiously Collapsed. A private letter says '.hat supposed colossi fortunes now only appear aoY paper, and that bank* are seizing Tictims iu all directions. One leader t.f the bodru has forfeited £62,000 in deposits ■ooner than go on with pay meats. While steaming to her berth at Wellington on Monday morning the Zealandia run into Ihe end of the wharf for a distance of 12 feet. TNe vessel received no damage. Three boyß went out with a gun at Blenheim on Sunday. One playfully pretented it at another named Weblingf, believing it to be unloaded. Th« shot entered the groin, and there is hardly any hope of the boy's recovery. Some cases of wanton destruction of cattle have occurred in tho vicinity of PapaDni, between three and four miles from Christchurch. During the pant few weeks, a bull belonging to a farmer named McDonnell, and another belonging to oneTriggs/have been shot deid and mutilated. The outrages are believed to be the work of one man.

On Monday Messrs Malson and Co. sold the carcases of the sheep saved from the fire at Belfast. Fully 4000 were really prime mutton,only a few being disoolouied by the smoke. The sale was dull, 2000 weie ■old at from 4s to 5s per carcase averaging 751 be, 600 going to Timara, Oamaru, Danedin, and the remainder to ChriHtchurch buyers. All tint are damaged will bo boiled down at Christchurch. The Otago Cattle Board have carried a resolution urging the Government immediately to impose five monthsquarantine on all cattle imported from Australia. The co-operation cf other cattle boards is Invited. An hotel keeper at West Olive named Kadiick was fined £lO at the Napier B.M. Court on Monday morning for allowing dice to bo used iu his licensed premises. A cash box from the office of the Club Hotel, Palmecatoa North, confining £ls in silver, was stolen at three oM'ick on Saturday afternoon during the absence of the landlord for a few minuies. No clue lo the culprit has been discovered. On Mondny afternoon n man named Thomas H. Teroperley was arrested at Wellington upon a cliaija of threatening to commit suicide, Temperley went into tbechemisl'd shop and enquired for poinon, which he announced Ida intention of taking to rid himself of the cares of this world. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at Auckland open on Monday next. There are fourteen cases set down, mending'attempted murder by a womao, two of horse »ten'ing, others of burglary, larceny, and embtzzh men'.

Mr P. Lanigan haH offered to accept £U,tiOQ instead of £18,769 15* 8J in • aettlement of his c'aim for ex'n work entni'ed in the construction of ihaCMiopi: dock at Auckland. The Harbour Boa'd, however, have resolved to adhere to thii r ... decision to appoint Mr Ware as arbiter of the account, a step which is objected to by Mr Lanigan. J The Auckland Presbytery hare resolved to overture the Presbyterian General Assembly lo take into consideration the Westminster Confession of Faith, hr there is great diversity of opinion with regird to some of its teachings. A curious case came before the Resident Magistrate at Napier on Tuesday. Among the applicants for relief out of the bush fire relief fund raised some time ago was one Brescke, but the committee refused, to . entertain Lis claim, and put nil opposite his name on the list, and put £lO opposite the next name. In making out Ihe cheques Brescke's name was inserted instead of that of the next man, and Ihe. cashed it. Mr Knowles, the treasurer] of the fond, now brought an action to recover the £lO. The Bendeot Magistrate deferred judgment. ; j Mr i. Sclanders, of Nelson, a member of the Ohrislchnrch committeeof adviceofjthe : Midland Railway Company, who arrived per xlimutaka, states that when he left England the directors were confident of completing the arrangements for further capital by the end of November, Thoy feH it a duty to protect the interests of shareholders by obtaining the best possible terms even at the cost of some delay. Mr Merchant addressed his Stratford constituents en Monday. He said that though the Treasurer estimated to receive increased revenue this year to the amount of £378,000, the first six months hod on'y yielded £27,oooadditional. He considered the financial position serious*, »nd that further retrenchingt was possiblo and necessary. He weu'd give general support to Ministers, but would not give them strict party allegiance. At the inquest on the body of fanny Alice Parker, a married woman, who died auddeoly in Barrett's Hotel, Christchurch, on Monday, the evidence showed that she was addicted to drink, and went to the hotel complaining of feeling ill. She had a glass of brandy, and remained for four hcurs in a room. She fell off her chair, and was sitting on the floor for a considerable time. No one attended to her, it being supposed that she was drunk, till Mr Btrrett saw thnt she was dying, »nd sent for a doctor, who came after she had died. A verdict was returned that deceased died fronr> heart disease. The jury and coroner expr-BBed surprise that in a large hotel w ere *«-ven»l. women are employed, such •ant of humanity had been shown.