TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1268, 31 May 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[ntS FKIB9 ASSOCIATION, j The Anckland’Tramwaya. Auolland, To-day. Satisfactory experiments were made with the tramway car* on the first section of the city tramway system, which is now being completed. A Native Bow. At Cambridge yesterday several natives forcibly rescued a horse from Major Green, the sheriff. It is (said that Major Green intends to prosecute one woman for biting and indecent!} assaulting him. He will also lay an information against Mr Hay, a solicitor, for inciting the natives. a Land Purchase. New Plymouth, To-day. Sir Norman Campbell, of Kaikonra, has been on a visit to this district with respect to the purchase of several blocks of land lying six miles east of >• tratford, ef 70,000 to 80,000 acres, for a syndicate of English farmers, who are looking out for a district to settle in. Housebreaking. Ohbistchuboh, To-day. The Springaton Hotel, sixteen miles from Christchurch, was broken into last ' night and a cashbox' containing L2OO stolen. The cashbox was subsequently found empty, in a paddock near the hotel.' The Member for Hokonul. D-’NEinif, To-day. Ur Driver intimates that he will not seek re-election forHokonui. A Newspaper in Difficulties. - The Star is to be proceeded against for contempt fer publishing an important equity case on Wednesday. Tie Unemployed. A deputation oi the unemployed interviewed the Mayor this morning. The Mayor said he had received a telegram from the Premier, stating he was making enquiries in refsrence to finding employ, ment, snd that he would telegraph during the day. The Mayor recommended the men to remain quiescent in the meantime. Outside the Town Hall folly two hundred unemployed had assembled, and the} claimed a hearing as the Mayor left the bnUding. When questioned as to whether they would take employment if found for them up country, several men replied

emphatically in the negative. Co-operation. The Prospectus of the Co-operative Farmers Society, with 6,000 LI shares, is issued. The Campbell-Xennady Case. In OaiQpbell| v| Kennedy and Siev F Wright and others, the defendant Pied has filed his defence, in which he says he - acted to the bept of hia judgment in order to save what be. ooald of the plaintiffs means; that he perfectly understood the transaction, end signed the deed after mature consideration, and that the L9OOO was paid to her by order on Kennedy. Offer of Employment. The Government offer the unemployed irork, near Mosgiel, on the railway works.