TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1913, 6 July 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At Weedons, North Canterbury, on Wednesday, a lad named Samuel Harris got one of his arms so badly broken in the spoke# of a dray wheel that it had to be amputated. At the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Thursday, Patrick Dunn was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for robbery from the person. At Wellington on the same day Peter Mickelson got two years for breaking and entering. The Boseville (Otago) Dairy Factory made a loss of £I2BB during the season. Losses had been made on consignments, and the condensed milk turned out early in the season went bad.

Dr Macgregor lectured to 2000 persons in Knox Church; Dunedin, on Thursday evening, on " The Resurrection,”

In the bankrupt estate ofT. Morrin, Auckland, the liabilities are set down at £17,384 and assets at £3718. A young man named William Taylor poisoned himself with strychnine on Wednesday at Taupiri, Auckland. The cause is said to be disappointment in love.

Several cases of drapery belonging to a large wholesale firm were seised at Auckland on Wednesday.

At Dunedin Adam Frank, a seaman on board the Doric, was fined in the mitigated penalty of £1 17s fid, for taking ashore a box of cigars and a bottle of Florida water.

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, Allandale was sentenced to ten years penal servitude for breaking into the Feilding Postoffice and stealing therefrom. Two hundred of the Auckland unemployed have sent a petition to the Government asking for relief work. A bootshop belonging to J. A. Cooper, at Gisborne, was destroyed by fire. Insurances, £450.

Barclough’s butcher’s shop, Sutton’s drapery store,and Pritchard’s chemist’s shop, were destroyed by fire at Hawera on Thursday. Loss £SOOO, insurance £5050. It is stated that payable gold has been discovered at the end of Puhipuhi forest, nearest to Kawakawa. Ten experienced miners are already on the ground.