TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1984, 19 December 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

A fish weighing 181 b, was found in the Waikato River on Tuesday, It is supposed to be a salmon. ’ The Waipapa Creek Company (Otago) received ll7ozs of amalgam for last week’s work. A man named Samuel Vivian while working at the United Service Hotel, Auckland, on Tuesday fell from the top of that building to the pavement below, a distance of 35ft, and was dangerously injured, his right arm and lower jaw being fractured, whilst his leg was crushed at (he knee, It is feared he has also received internal injuries. A deputation of ministers waited upon the Auckland Charitable Aid Board on Monday, and asked them to assist in the establishment of a reformatory for young girls beginning a vicious life. It was stated that £3OO would be required, and that there was such a reformatory for boys, and none for girls. The Board asked the deputation to put their proposal in writing, and resolved that when it was received it would be submitted to the House Committee of the Board, with a view of communicating with the Government.

The body of a man was seen floating off Taylor’s Mistake on Tuesday. It was evidently that of Samuel Buckett, who was drowned while fishing ten days ago. The police went out in the steam launch, but owing to the heavy sea could not recover the body. Mr Chapman, reporting on Mr Bathgate’s complaint against the management at the Seacliffe Asylum, fully exonerates Dr King from all charges, Mr Wilson, Mining Inspector tor the Thames district, who was commissioned by the Q-overnment to report upon the Puhipuhi silver discovery, returned to Auckland on Tuesday from Whangarei. When at Puhipuhi Mr Wilson went over the prospectors’ claim and inspected a great number of reefs. He selected six cwt. of stone, which he brought to Auckland, and has since sent to the Thames for treatment at the School of Mines. Considerable importance will attach to this test, as being from stone selected by an independent expert. Mr J. Duthie, the retiring Mayor of Wellington, was on Tuesday presented with a library of 500 books which had been carefully selected at Home. Mr W. H. Levin, in making the presentation, eulogised the manner in which the mayor bad performed the duties while holding the civic chair. Seven Salvationists were charged at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Westport, on Tuesday, with obstructing thoroughfares by holding meetings in the middle of the streets. The magistrate expressed surprise at the ratepayers in the neighborhood of Salvation Army meetings enduring the nuisance, The defendants were each fined one shilling and costs. Only one paid the fine. The others went to gaol for twenty-four hours, declining to allow their fines to be paid, A runholder who lives 35 miles from Christchurch has found that it costs him less to have his clip of over two hundred bales carted by road direct to store in Christchurch than it would by rail to the Christchurch railway station. His wool is going by road. Nelson Railway Employes have protested against the proposed Government Insurance scheme as unjust and arbitrary, and decided to form a branch of the amalgamated society of Railway Servants. the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Tuesday Robert McCracken, for cattle stealing, was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour.