TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1964, 2 November 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ihe Auckland schooner Terea has been sold to a native chief at Earatonga for 10,000dola. Intimation has been received by the Kauri Timber Company that a cargo of timber sent to Glasgow has bean sold at 27s 6d per 100 feet, and this is accompanied by an order for another shipment. John Kaye, of Auckland, was arrested at Wellington on Thursday afternoon os a charge of embezzling, money from J. Mcßride, also of Auckland. Accused had hooked for London in theEuapehu, which was to leave that evening, under the name of John Tates. . . T .. The shop closing difficulty at Blenheim has been got over, mainly through the good offices of the Eev. Father Lewis. All drapers and grocers now close at six o’clock. At Lawrence, Simpson and Start, brewers at Weathers tones, were fined £IOO and costs for breach ef the Beer Duty Act. The Eev. Mr Sutherland, in an interview with Mr Fergus brought under his notice the sudden discharge of eleven married men on the Wingatui section of the Otago Central Eailway. He said that no sooner had the Commissioners taken over the first section of the railway than the men were dismissed, and young unmarried men substituted for them. Mr Fergus promised that full inquiry will bo made into the circumstances of the case.