TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1859, 28 February 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. have,x§BQ}ved toJe.iGg/jt..a nurses' home, cost not to exceed £I2OO, which will give increased hospital accommodation. The sittings of the New Zealand University Senate openad at Auckland yesterday. Henry Smith, aged four years, was drowned at Kennedy Bay, Auckland. He fell into the river. The Orlando left Auckland for Sydney yesterday to bring over the relief crew for the Dart which have come from England, The present crew will probably be sent home by some of the trading* steamers. The Dart will almost be refitted at Auckland. No additional vessel is to be sent to Samba to reinforce the Calliope. Daniel Elkin, of Mount Eden, Auckland, was run over by his cart, and died from his injuries. John Ballington, of the Auckland Bowling Club, was taken suddenly ill on the green and died in two hours of heart disease. The Coptic arrived at Plymouth on Friday evening. The extensive prospecting operations of the last few months in the Marlborough district have now been rewarded by a succession of rich prospects indicating that the province is exceedingly auriferous. Kaituna Valley, the Sounds district, and Wairau Valley, are proving rich, and the Wakakahao reefs are turning out splendidly. Mr Murphy, secretary to the Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral Association, pronounces the grub found in the orchard at Rangiora to be a common apple grub, not that of the codlin moth. The First Church Bazaar at Dunedin netted £I6OO in six days. The lode of tin at Pegasus was traced seven miles by a party who came overland to Half Moon Bay. A good sample of gold was also found in one of the alluvial tin claims. Mr Ashcroft, who arrived at Invercargill on Tuesday night, brings convincing proof as to the existence of the metal, in the shape of a substantial smelting of ore from the lode. From a handful of stone as large as a crown piece and half an inch thick in the centre, the result is 60 per cent of tin to the weight of stuff treated. There are thousands of tons of loose blocks on the mountain, containing tin. Some doubts have been expressed as to the field because of the uncertainty whether the matrix was granite, with which successful tin mining is always associated. Granite is now believed to have been found. By the Zealandia, Mr Geo. Griffin, American Consul, Sydney, is a passenger for San Francisco ; also Professor Webster, of the Department of Agriculture, Washton. On the petition of the Dunedin City Corporation, A. H. Logan was on Monday adjudged a bankrupt. Logon was proirietor of the Fernhill Coal Mine, and when judgment was given againsthiminthe recent action for damages against the Corporation the writ was returned nulla hona. Mr Thomas Siniill wan on Monday evening ordained Presbyterian missionary to the New Hebrides. Captain Thomson, of the steamer Waitara, which ran ashore in Worsor Bay, WtHing'on, hue had his certificate suspendedforsix months, and been ordered to pay the costs of the inquiry, £4 4s. Two boys named Gilchrist, 14 and 10 years old, were committed for trial at Christchurch on Monday afternoon for wholesale larcenies, The elder one stole a saddle and two sets of harness, and with the younger stole 30 books and 30 dinner plates from an unoccupied house.