TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1847, 31 January 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

In the Maori Gorge claim, near Blenheim, the prospects wonderfully improve as the bottom i 3 approached. The walls are found to bo wider than was believed, and the gold yield is anticipated to be very large. The owners of the Wakamarina Gorge claims are watching the operations with great interest. They expect to bottom in a fortnight. A l-28th share last week quoted at £6O, is now obtainable at £9O.

Joseph Childs, a blacksmith at LytU-lton, aged 75, one of the " pilgrims " died rather suddenly on Sunday morning. He left work apparently wall on Saturday afternoon, was seized with a fit in the evening, and died at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, after a second fit..

At the inquest on tha body of Chapman, who died at Christchurch on Saturday from an overdose of chlorodyne, the verdict was that deceased died from poisoning by chlorodyne taken while under tho influence of liquor. The Auckland Railway League have passed a resolution "expressing dissatisfaction with the appointment of Mr Maxwell as a Railway Commissioner.

At tho Auckland Police Court on Tuesday John Coleman, charged with being unlawfully at Urge iu the colony, having been senteuced in Victoria to two years imprisonment with hard labour for having housebreaking implements in his possession, was ordered to be sent to Victoria. At a meeting at Wellington of the council of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, the balance-sheet showed £75 cash in hand after defraying all preliminary expenses. The colony wns divided into ten survey districts, five in each island, for the purpose of forming local committees and electing delegates to the council.

A pecutiar caae, in which was heard some hard swearing, was tukeu at the Donedin Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. One Evans, sued the father of his daughters illegitimate child for expenses of burying it. The girl when called by her father as a witness gave a direct denial to his statements. Plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited with costs. Tn chambers at Wellington on Tuesday the terms on which an appeal to the Privy Council in the Kenata Kawopo will case inny bo made wero settled. The appellant (Donnelly) is to give security for the due prosecution of the appeal ami all costs. The security is to be approved of by the Registrar of the Court cf Appeul at Wellington,

Charles Eiby, who was injured by a descending; tauck on the Westporfc Coal Company's incline, died on Monday night. The Greyniouth Harbour Board have resolved to give the captain, mate, engineer, and crew of the tug Westland notice (hat their services will be dispensed with at the end of February next. The caretaker of the Harbour Board offices is also to receive a month's notice that his services will be dispensed with. At Chrietchurch on Tuesday morning a fire broke out in the crockery store belonging to Percy Nind Ward. No cause is given for the Are. The insurance on the stock is £SOO, in the Loodon, Liverpool and Lancashire. Tha stock is said to be worth £2500. The damage is equal to the insnrance.