TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1856, 21 February 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A horse ridden by a boy named Griffen, frightened by an engine crossing the railway bridge at Wellington on Monday morning, threw his rider, who in the fall struck a post which dashed his brains out. The steamer Australia, which struck on the rocks at Waihou Bay on her passage along the East Coast, N. 1., was placed on the Wellington slip. iShe received several dents lo liar bottom, principally along the keel, but it is improbable that any plates will require replacing. At the licensing election for Dunedin on Monday, the ques'inn of prohibition was the battle ground, and the voting appears to havo been conducted almost entirety on that principle. The result is that the moderate party defeated the prohibitionists by 800 to 500, the whole of the moderates being elected. At the Arnberley Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, Julian James, a small fanner, was fined £IOO for unlawfully putting his‘brand and ear marks on three sheep belonging to Messrs Mullock and Lunco. Ho paid the tine

A telegram from Dunedin says the Fifoahire arrived Home on Saturday, in 46 days. By the new arrangements of Mr Maxwell the Bailway Commissioner, the Waikato passenger train service will accomplish the run from Auckland to Hamilton in 4£ hours instead of 6 hours. The cattle trains are to be doubled, and run specially. The Crown Law officers have advised the Government that the most comprehensive way of dealing with the prevalence of tuberculosis among cittle would be to proceed under the Diseased Cattle Act, 1881, and instructions have accordingly been sent to the various boards of health in Wellington and the country districts effected, to take advantage of the powers vested in them to stamp out the disease.