TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1923, 30 July 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Alfred Julier, an A.B. on board the brigantine Enterprise, was lost overboard when off Banks Peninsula on July 19th. The lad's parents reside in Port Chalmers. The case Bing, Harris and Company v. the Commissioner of Customs concluded at Christchurch on Friday, when the jury returned a verdict for the Government as to the white shirts and lustres and for plaintiffs as to the fur trimmings and belts and bags. The question of costs stands over for argument. Mr A. Darling's fellmongery at Mill Road, Invercargill, was destroyed by fire on Friday moraing. The building is insured for £l4O in the New Zealand, and the contents for £250 in the South British. The loss is £I2OO above the insurance. His fellmongery was burnt twelve months ago, and had not long been rebuilt when the present misfortune overtook him. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Dunedin, have sold 10 stud Hampshire Down sheep, bred by Mr Max Friedlander to Mr F. G. Docker, Wangaratta, Victoria. One champion ram, 2-tooth, realised 35 guineas, and the nine others 20 guineas each. The sheep-were shipped by the Manapouri to Melbourne. By the Hauroto on Friday Mr K. B.* Ferguson sent away to oydney 26 Aryßhire cows all young, two bulls and the Clydesdale entire Black Prince. Daring the last two or three years Mr Ferguson has. sent to Sydney by the Hauroto and Wakatipu 600 head of cattle witho«t the loss of a single animal.

About 150 gentlemen were present at the convocation of the Provincial Grand Lodge of New Zealand, S.C., at Wellington on Friday night for the installation of Bro. E. T. Gillon, as Deputy-Provincial Grand Master of the North Island. Bro. Gillon was presented for installation by Bro. Warren, Past Master of the Otago Kilwinning Lodge, as master of which, some 25 years ago, he initiated Bro. Gillon,

A settler, writing from the Herekino special settlement (Auckland), denies that there is any starvation there, and says that the reports that the settlers are starviag are spread by people who do not want work. The Waikato County Council have decided to invite local bodies of the district to iend representatives to a meeting which is to be held to cor aider the question of railwa]r freights. A demand is to be made for a reduction of 50 per cent on the freight for produce sent from the district, and that all manures be brought hy the railway free.