TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Temuka Leader, Issue 1959, 22 October 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

A. fire yesterday morning destroyed Farrell'a boarding-house/ Carlyle street, Napier, bettor known as Bhlt'e Cottage, The inmates barely t escaped with their lives. The building was uninsured, but the furniture was covered by £3OO in the New Zealand Office.— The house of Mr McKinaon, manager of Mount Linton Station, Southland, was destroyed by fire on Saturday; ! Only a piano was saved. The insurance on the house was £BOO and on the furniture £4OO, both in the National, half the total being reinsured in the New Zealand.

It was supposed that a great mine containing some six hundred pounds of gun cotton would be exploded at Wellington when General Edwards inspects the forts, but the operation , will be postponed until he returns from A uckland. The mine has been laid six weeks. , . ( # , The concert hall at the Exhibition was tested with satisfactory results on Saturday. It will seat 3000 persons. At Cromwell races Don Jose received severe injuries, necessitating his being shot. In Banco at Dundin Judge Williams gave judgment for defendant in Regina (moved by the Clutha County Council) v. Brooks, dealing with a Crown grant issued a quarter of a century ago, which was attacked on the ground of mistake. The judgment waß of special interest to the County Councils and Local Bodies;

A two-year-old child named Charles Wilfred Breach was drowned in a tub of pig wash at Rakaia on Friday. He was quite dead when found. At a meeting called by the Masonic Union at Dunedin to receive the report of a committee, it was resolved by 25 to 9 to adopt the report; several not voting. The report which has already been telegraphed was in substance that no real union will be consummated until there is greater harmony on the question of a Grand Lodge which cannot be obtained without further consideration and negotiation. The report is to be sent to the various district grand lodges and subordinate lodges, and pending consideration the grand lodge formed in Wellington is not to be countenanced. Joseph Ward, a piano tuner, of Wellington, has been committed for trial at Carterton on a charge of indecently assaulting a child of tender i years.

A little girl named Parrett, seven and a-half years old, was drowned at Tai-Tapu on Monday afternoon in the Halswell. She went to the river to fill a basm with water, and fell in.

Sheep worrying has become so prevalent at West Oxford that, the farmers have formed an aaßociation, and subscribed liberally, for the purpose of taking steps to secure the detection of the offending dogs, and the prosecution of their owners. At a meeting of the Wellington City Council it was decided to obtain judgment, against the Athen»um for the amount (£80) of rates owing, and then to defer the question for twelve months. It was resolved to inspect the town belt for a site for the new cemetery. The Mayor announced that he intended to devote his honorarium as follows: —To pay the sum of £3O owing by the Friendly Societies for rates, and to divide the remainder between the Art Gallery and the Newton Public Library.