TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1040, 5 September 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

•' i! . [pKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] r Fraudulent Bankruptcy. •' • Wanganui, To-day. The 1 preliminary examination in connection with the alleged charges of fraudulent bankruptcy against William Lingard concluded this morning. The defendant now stands committed for trial 'at the Supreme Court on five distinct charges; ' Three.other charges were with- . drawn and the defendant admitted to bail. , ‘ Political. Wellington, To-day. ' ,In the* House to-day Majdr Atkinson announcedthat the Government will in- ‘ troduceand pass through to-day a short Bill to give effect to the dummyism clauses in the Land Bill rejected by the Legislative Council; also that the Russell Land Bill will not be proceeded with this session,*' attd the reorganisation of the civil Service will be undertaken by the . <Jovernment during the recess on their rwponsibility. ; ' Sudden Death. ;. .CaEiSTCHUKCH, To-day. u : MrMames Walk, a farmer and a well- • known ; breeder of Clydesdale stock, died £:-dat)y - this morning. The decased left •: iEaiapoi for home about six o’clock yesterlv r day evening in his usual health, but a ■ short time afterwards he was found lying ;j;Cn - the .road, about a mile out of town in , unconscious state. The medical (exi camination showed that the deceased was ..-suffering from apoplexy, and the case was pronounced hopeless from the first.