TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1978, 5 December 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Sluicing has been stopped at Kumara for want of water. It is the same all over the Grey district, The return from the Waipapa Dredging Company,Otago, for the past week is 1360zs of amalgam. It is stated that the pastoral district along the Manawatu railway, from Plummerton to Otaki is threatened by an invasion of rabbits. The wife of a New Plymouth settler named Griffiths died suddenly on Sunday. She had been confined about a fortnight and was in apparently good health but on getting up on Sunday said she felt faint and immediately expired. The cause of death was embolism of the heart. The Minerva Quartz Mining Company, Blackball, West Coast, who have been carrying on prospecting operations for some time, haya struck a reef containing a very good show of gold. The reef has been driven through eleven feet without any sign of the hanging wall. A body, supposed to be that of the late Major Jackson, M.H.E. for Waipa has been found in a cave between Mokau and Kawhia, near White Cliffs. The Government have chartered the steamer Mobaka to take the body to Waitara, where a short formal inquest will be held, and then if it is found to be Jackson’s body it will be sent on to Auckland.

The steamer pent to get the dead body said to have been seen north of Mohan returned to New Plymouth on Wednesday The body had been washed out of the cave, and was not to be seen. It was evidently the body of the late Major Jackson. The Government have received a telegram to the effect that an assay of ore from the Puhipuhi silver mine made at Waiorongomai, Te Aroha, gave at the rate of 2ooz to the ton. The Minister of Lands considers it probable that this return is more correct than any other that has been submitted.

The dead body of a child was discovered in a water-closet attached to premises occupied by a Mr and Mrs Jackson, in Ingestre street, Wellington. Inquiries by the police show that a report was current recently that Mrs Jackson, who was on Monday committed to the asylum, had suffered premature confinement. The child had apparently been born about a week and was not fully developed. Mr Dillon and Sir T. Esmonde addressed a crowded meeting at the Theatre Eoyal, Christchurch, on Monday evening, Mr W. D. Perceval, M.H.E., presiding. Both speakers were listened to attentively and enthusiastically applauded. On the motion of Mr W. P. Eeeves, M.H.E., seconded by Mr J. Gammack, it was unanimously resolved That this meeting considers Home Eule necessary for the welfare ®f Ireland and the best means of securing true union between the different parts of the British Empire.” A collection was made realising £350.