TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1826, 8 December 1888, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

| Mokau Jones is now in Auckland with Wetere te Seneoga, He states that this land claim is likely to be satisfactorily settled. ; At Kawakaws, Auckland, Matthew leathers was fined £lO and costs for lellirg brandy without a license. The conviction was obtained by a police constable getting a iman to buy the brandy. Defendant said be bad only got two bottles, from Auckland to treat friends.

A private telegram states that the first ordinary general meeting of shareholders io the New Zealand Shipping Company, to be held in London under the new regulations, has been fixed for 17th December.

i At the Supreme Court, Nelson, yesterday, Annie Tatterssll pleaded guilty to forging a oheque. She was bound in her own reoogniianoa to oome np for sentence. George 'Freeman, for indecent assault on a girl seven years of age, was sentenced to two years, > The Mohikinui Coal Company’s property, Westport, has been sold by Mr O'Connor to a Sydney Syndicate with a capital of £80,00) subject to the approval of the shareholders of the present Company. w. Gregory, a farmer, was drowned on the way from Wyndham show to Fortress, Southland. The trap capsized in a ditch near Wainahaka stream. Deceased wav sober. He leaves:a widow and a large family. Ue lost a son by drowning last year. j;The Auckland Chamber of Commerce ask farmers to co-operate with them for the purpose of making a good display of Auckland produce at the Paris Exhibition next year. A meeting takes place on Monday. It is stated that a land agent in Auckland one day this week sold privately country land valued at £IO,OOO. The demand for farms for settlement is very great. The Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board have passed a resolution expressing the opinion that the system of providing relief work out of Parliamentary grants will never solve the unemployed difficulty, and only tends, to create and foster State pauperism. A deputation has been appointed to wait upon the Hon. Mr Richardson on his arrival in Auckland to press upon him the urgent necessity of the establishment of additional village settlements in the Auckland district, this being in their view the only practical solution of the question. A girl named Maude Dobie alias Martin was committed for trial at Wellington on Wednesday for passing spurious coins. She delivered a penny to represent a florin and successfully passed it on a tradesman. She had been previously convicted of the same offence.

A man named Happy has been arrested at Masterton, Wellington, charged with committing an unnatural offence. The steamer Bucephalus left We'lington for Calcutta on Monday evening with three hundred horses, of which number 230 were from the south, the remainder being shipped at Wellington. A man named John Doran was on Wednesday morning received inti the Dunedin hospital, suffering from an overdose of acetic acid. He was in great pain, and it is believed that an enormous amount of the fluid must have been taken by him to produce the symptoms noticed. He lingered until 6 p.m. when he died. Deceased was forty years of ago and married, his family residing on the Peninsula. Owing to the circumstances surrounding the case, an inquest has been deemed necessary. At the inquest a verof death through an accidental overdose acetic acid was returned.

A sample of stream tin from Stewarts Island was shown in Invercargill on Thursday. Professor Black is now on a visit to the island, and the discovery will probably be brought under his notice. The second strawberry crop in the Auckland district threatens to be a failure for want of rain. The first crop is now being secured, and is a very poor one. A grower who last year sent 400 quarts daily to the market is seeding only 60. The price has been raised. Porikapa, the celebrated chief, who has been ill for some time, died at Stoney Biyer, near New Plymouth, on Thursday. He; is said to have been over 90 years of age. The tangi to be held will beattended by natives from all parts of New Zealand. *

At the inquest on the body of Mrs T. King, found dead in her house at West Eyreton, North Canterbury, Dr Wold deposed that lie could find no signs of disease in the body. He attributed death to deceased’s working hard immediately after a heavy meal. A verdict was returned accordingly. At Dunedin, Mr Carew, R.M., on Thursday decided not to convict on a charge of selling beer on Sunday, against Mary Black, on the bare evidence of the constable. He said that he did not wish •to discredit police evidence, but it was dangerous to convict on it alone.

At- the Supreme Court, Nelson, on Thursday, Arthur Gibson,?for stealing a watch from the Palace Rink, was sentenced to two years’. A warrant arrived from Dunedin for his arrest on a charge of stealing a ring in that city. James Davy was sentenced to eighteen months’ for horse stealing. At the inquest on the body of Monzies, at Invercargill, a verdict was given that deceased met his death from a gun-shot wound, but there was no evidence to show how it was caused.