TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2046, 15 May 1890, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

N& official intimation has been received of the cause of the sudden movement in New Zealand harbour board debentures, but it is surmised the decline has been caused by the inability of the New Plymouth board to find the full amount of interest for the instalment falling due on May Ist. It is understood they could not provide more than four per cent., instead of six, and it is their steck which, has suffered moßt.

It is stated that Alfred Bremble, recently committed for trial at f Wellington for a criminal offence, has i absconded from his bail, and that the police have telegraphed to San Francisco to have him arrested, it being supposed that he left for there by the last mail steamer. The E.M.S. Mariposa, with the English mails of the 19th April, left San Francisco for Auckland, on the Brd instant, contract date. The - R.M.W. Zealandia, with Colonial mails of the 23rd April, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 10th instant, contract date. Cook's store at Kaiwarra, which is also a post office, was burglariously entered on Sunday night, and an I attempt made to open the post office j safe but without success. I The Te Kooti case has been heard before the Court of Appeal and judgment reserved. This is the case in which Judge Connolly found the Government wrong in arresting Te Kooti. The Government appealed against the decision. Mr L. C. Richards, an old settler, was found ,dead in bed at the Railway Hotel, Marton. A bottle of bird poison, partly emptied, was on a table near him. It is supposed he drank the poison during the night by mistake. Last Tuesday night a man named Bobert Gross, a resident of Motueka, Nelson, passing the post-office there, fell, and before he could be carried jhome expired. The cause of death was heart disease. The inquest on the body of the man i Maloney, who was murdered in the I New Plymouth recreation ground some time ago, still continues but no evidence as to who the murderer is has so far been produced. The theory of the prosecution is that the man was murdered between 11 and 12 a.m., but witnesses have proved that they saw him alive between 1 and 2 p.m. The Maori can, it appears, prove that he could not have committed the crime at the latter hour, as he was elsewhere. The woodware factory of Messrs Findlay and Co., Dunedin, was burned down last Tuesday evening. The value of the stock and machinery was £25,000 and the insurance was only £SOOO. At 630 on Tuesday morning a fire broke out in the bath room of the Hibernian Hotel, Invercargill, a two storeyed brick building in Dee street. A portion of the building was completely gutted, and but for the splendid municipal water supply the whole block must have gone. The origin of the fire is unknown. A. Mclnerney, the lessee, is uninsured, and estimates his loss on furniture at £3OO. The damage to the building is estimated roughly at £250. It, together with three shops under the same roof, was insured i'or £2500 in the National, but reinsurd in the New Zfaland, North German, and two cjtuer offices, for £SOO each. A portion of the furniture, over which there is a mortgage, was insured in the Colonial for £2OO.