TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1929, 13 August 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A suggestion has been made by the Auckland Burns Club that a monument be erected to the memory of the late Mr Justice Gillies. The report of the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce states that the value of the exports from Napier for the year ended June 30th was £1,095,252, as against £738,652 last year. This is equal to 7s 5d per acre for the whole province. There will be nearly 2000 candidates for the first grade of the Art examination at Wellington. In the primary schools in the Wfillington district last year there were 1250. Mr Solomon Abraham’s pawnshop, Wellington, was burglariously entered om Thursday night, and a quantity of jewellery, valued at £SO, extracted. An Arrowtown telegram to the Dunedin Star says that splendid dredging prospects have been obtained on the beach fiats of the Kawarau between Morven Ferry and the mouth of the Shotover. The gold lies on the surface. Severe frosts so dried up the river that an enormous area of goldbearing drift hitherto hidden is now exposed.

The Wellington libel action H. D. Bell, Crown Prosecutor, v. Jellicne, solicitor, arising out of the Ohemis case, will be held on the 23rd before a special jury of twelve. In Shand’i estate at Dunedin there was a stormy meeting of creditors. It was resolved to exclude the National Bank proof, ihe bank’s solicitor intimated that the case would bo carried to the Privy Council if necessary. £5500 is involved. At the Champion Coursing Meeting at Dunedin, which concluded on Saturday, the Chaulpioh Stake# was won by Mr Blaney’s Kiwi, with Mr Gardner’s Flora runner-up. The Maiden Stakes was won by Messrs Mills’ Presto, with Mr Bianey’s Kaprolani runner-up. A man named John Waters, m crossing the Molyneux at Roxburgh, in a chair suspended by a wire rope, lost his life. Part of the chair in which he was being accompanied by one of his mates, gave way and Waters was thrown into the river. His mate had the presence of mind to stick to the portion of the chair hanging to the wire and escaped. , Small bircjs ha,ye.increased to such an extent that the Southland County Council have offered a subsidy of pound, for pound on all amounts collected; for, their destruction, farmers in all parts of the district have subscribed, and at a recent meeting no less than twelve subsidies were granted. Poisoning is becoming general and large numbers of sparrows are now found dead in the fields. At Dunedin on Saturday George McGavin was fined £IOO and costs for evasions, of i;h© Beep Duty Act, on five separate informations, and James Wilson was fined £4O and costs in respect of two informations. Both pleaded guilty. Robert Knox, contractor, Gisborne, was on Saturday convicted of cruelty to animals. He put forty sheep in a half-acre paddock, which had been eaten bare by horses, and kept them there ten days. He was fined £l. Mrs George Tait accidentally poisoned herself at Masterton on Friday night. She partook of some pancakes for tea which she had mixed with arsenic instead of baking powder. She died at midnight in great agony. Her husband is away working up country. He kept arsenic in the house for dressing bird skins, which he stuffs. The bottles were somewhat alike containing the arsenic and baking powder, hence the fatal mistake.