TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1048, 12 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.]

Gross Cruelty to a Horse.' Wanganui, To-day.

At the sittings of the Police Court this morning, a settler named Thomas Hollywood was fined LIO for cruelly ill-treating a horse by over-riding. The evidence went to show thit the defendant was drunk, and rode his horse (an old racer named Astronomer), to such an extent that it fell down in the road' from pure ex* haustion. The legs were the suse; o£. a man’s thigh, and one of the back tendons had burst right through the sides or the poor brute, which was lacerated with* stirrups, and the man was seen bitting him over the head with a riding whip to make g 6 when he could hardly move. - ■ A Coming Ceremony. ; j New Plymouth, To-day*. -

Bishop Redwood arrived by the Rotorua this morning to lay the foundation atone of a large convent on Sunday. : He was escorted through the town by the brass band. A Native Claim, 1! ‘ The Native Land Court at Waitara this morning decided a claim in the Mokan district in favor of To Whetero. There was a large gathering of influential chiefs. The Revenue. Wellington, To-day. The public accounts for the quarter ending December 31st, show the, ordinary revenue total to be L 1.197.337 16s 7d, and the expenditure L 865,481 3s 3d, leaving a b dance of L 331,856 13s 4dThe land fund receipts were L 153,359 Is 4i, and the expenditure L 65.830 16* fid, leaving a balance of L 87,528 4s lid.