TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2042, 6 May 1890, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

The Colonial Insurance Company directors recommend that the sum o"f £SOOO be appropriated for payment of a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, The balance of £3113 0s 9d will be carried forward to next year's account. In Blenheim Thomas Hustwick, aged 21, a fine athletic youth, was drowned in the Opawa riyer while duck shooting on Friday. Great sympathy is felt for the father, a chemist, and a respected citizen. A cutter has arrived at Stewart Island from the goldfield at Preservation Inlet. She reports that a watchmaker named Ciarfc, from Dunedin, was drowned while attempting to land at Coal Island. The boat capsized, but the four other occupants were rescued. There are seventy men on the field. The weather is bad, interfering with prospecting on the mainland. The capital of the proposed cooperative butchery at Wellington is fixed at £IO,OOO in 20,000 shares of 19s each. The number of shares each person can take up is limited. Mr Twopeny has resigned the editorship of the Otago Daily Times, owing to a disagreement with the board of directors on matters of public policy. Whilst a butcher's cart was decending an incline near St. Clair on Saturday afternoon, the horse bolted, and two boys who were on the driver's seat were thrown violently out. One named Benjamin Martain was killed instantaneously, and the other named Michael King was found on removal to the hospital to have sustained such severe injuries that his recovery is doubtful. The dead body of a man named Robert Watson, who had been missing since April 19th. was found on Saturday afternoon in some scrub near the Dunedin Botanical Gardens. It bore no marks of violence, but was much emaciated. J

| Disgraceful Conduct. —ln elson not | long ago two ladies, named Mrs arid Miss McGiiffin, .werj caught led-.handed stealing newspapers from the public reading room of tho place. They we'e arrested, brought before tho Court, nnd bound over in their own recognisances lo come up for sentence when called upon. They ought to have, been seut to gaol, but they were very penitent and promised donations to the institute.