TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1987, 28 December 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

The donations to the Auckland jubilee celebration fund are coming in freely, and now amounts to about £750. Green's bacon factory at Christchurch was burned early on Tusday morning. The insurances are £6009 on the stock and £2OOO on the building in the New Zealand. A laborer named Edward McFall was found dead in bed at Sydenham, Uhristcburch, on Tuesday evening. A Journeymen Bakers' Union has been formed at Auckland. An attempt will be made to shorten the hours worked by the men. A man named Robert Smith, a passenger on the Eotomahana, was found dead on board that vessel on Tuesday. The cause is thought to have been heart disease.

On Monday night, at Wellington, a tourist was relieved of 25 sovs. by two spielers, whose acquaintance he made on board ship. The detectives say the township is overrun with lightfingered gentry. Mr J. Hickson, Eesident Magistrate at the Lakes, Otago, has been suffering from weak eyesight, and is now quite blind.

The Croesus Company, Nenthorn, washed up on Saturday, the yield being 112 oz lldwts from 100 tons of stone. The Gallant Tip mine, Skippers, washed up 190ozs of amalgam from the plates from only 124 tons. Two hundred and fifty railway employes have joined the Amalgamated Society of Eailway Servants at Invercargill. The "Wanganui Harmonic Society, which has been in existence for over twenty-five years, has been dissolved, and liquidators appointed to realise the valuable assets. It is rumored that another Society will be formed.

A girl, eleven years old, employed at; Blackburn, got her left arm in a flax scutching machine at Mount Erin, Havelock, on Friday afternoon, The machine tore off her arm at the elbow. Medical aid was obtained, and the arm amputated at the elbow. Mrs Hooper, who was seriously burned at Upper Hutt, Wellington, by her clothes catching fire while papering her room, died on Friday. She had been burned severely about the legs and lower part of the body, eventually dying from exhaustion. At the City Oourfc, Dunedin, John Wilson Yesey was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, without the option of a fine, for a most unprovoked assault on a Chinese fish hawker, whom he beat witb a stick, and struck while on the ground.