TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1439, 23 December 1886, Page 3

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

More Juveni e Offenders. Auckland, Di cumber 23 At the Police Cou t to-day, two other boys were ordered a birching for petty tbift, A and P. Aff DelationThe Agricm ur«l and Peroral Association has a to'al debt of £3350 and it h«s been found necessary to solicit subscrlp tions to partlv c’e»r it - ff. False Pretense?Edward Neal has been lined £2 and coats for faiselv representing himself as a traveller to a publicm on Sunday. A Bankrupt in Trouble. Wellington, D ..comber 23. A meeting of creditors of W K Waters this morning was fully attended The debtor had not prepared any state roent as to what caused his present condition, but during a severe examination to which be was subjected it was elicited he had made heavy lossea in trade. The creditors considered he did not deserve consideration, and refused to grant him any assistance frem the estate, tut awarded Mrs Waters £SO and her wet# ing apparel The Official Assignee wi-a requested to investigate the estate and the creditors decided the debtor should l e publicly examined before the Court SS Hall to be Tr’ed at Dunedin Ohristcbukoh, Dec.-m' er 23 This morn'ng Mr Justlc“ J lir-s'OD, on th» applica’ion o r Mr Joynt, changed the venue In the Hall case from Ohrietohnrch to Dunedin, MrStringe- appended for the Crown and opposed a change t • Oatnarn as vhe sessloi s, will not be he d there till March. Child Killed. I unepiv, December 23. A five-year-old child named, MoE wen, was billed to-day by a coal dray pass ng over it.