TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1995, 16 January 1890, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Rev. J. S. Hill, an old Auckland Anglican clergyman is about to leave for England. A Journeyman Bakers Union has been formed in Auckland, and will be affiliated to the Trades and Labor Council. Father O’Sullivan, of St. Benedict’s, Auckland, who is leaving on a visit to Ireland has been presented with a purse of sovereigns. Twelve fresh settlers have been landed on the Kermadecs. Chief Detective Brown, of Auckland, has been retired on a pension. A. six-roomed cottage, owned bv Wrigley and occupied by Houston, was destroyed by fire at Auckland on Monday Insurances £295.

The Californian Poxes just given to the Sydney Zoological gardens, as otherwise the Government would not have allowed them to be landed from the Zealandia, cost £6O.

<he Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Company lost £919 during she year. ihe directors say the existence of the company depends on the adoption of the electrical system. The estate of the late J, R. Danson, Dunedin, brought under the Bankruptcy Act, shows a deficiency of £1765. Creditors are secured to tho amount of £1869.

At New Plymouth, Mrs Fry, mother of the wife of Captain Cornwall, of Bell Block, an elderly lady, suddenly expired on Monday night while talking to her daughter.

t Woodville the weather has been most unseasonable, cold, and with continuous rain or showers. The hay and grass seed crops are largely destroyed.

The Salvation Army will take pan in the Jubilee Celebration at Wei lington.

At Ashburton on Saturday evening Mr Thos. Arthur, who has been stationed there for seven years, and lately promoted to Dunedin, was presented by his fellow railway employes at Ashburton with a handsome marble timepiece.