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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 108, 31 July 1877, Page 3

[SPECIAL TO THE MAIL.]

Pkb Submarine Cable. Bombay, July 28. A serious riot took place in Chicago, the military killing and wounding one hundred and thirty persons. The Erie strike has ended. The mail steamer Tanjore arrived at Galle on July 26. The Russians have invested Silistria. Singapore, July 29. Suliman Bey was defeated at Karabunas.

Christchurch, July 30

A curious action was commenced this morning in the Supreme Court. Dr. Campbell, being the plaintiff, and the executors of the late J. Mackay, the defendants. The plaintiff's evidence shewed that he attended Mackay professionally at various times for three years prior to August 6th, 1876, when Mackay died from heart disease. The day before his death Mackay gave him (Campbell) a deposit note for £500, and a'promi'ssory'rcdte as a 1 parting v gjft, also a cheque forj£si#o; • •'-'■ Maekay 'knew 1 at: this time:that .lt&< was dying} -and-''made 1 his will the same day. - Thdre •wa's-nd witness present when Mackay gave him (Campbell) the gift. Plaintiff filled in the cheque at Mackay's request, who signed it, and also endorsed the deposit and promissory notes. After Mackay's

death, plaintiff presented the cheque at the Bank, but payments were refused, on the ground that the signature was unlike. The executors under Mackay's will refused to recognise the cheque, and Campbell now sues to recover the amount. The proprietress of the board-ing-house where Mackay had lived, gave evidence that she wag called into the sick room by Campbell, on the day the gift was made, to find Mackay's cheque book, At that time Mackay was sitting up in bed smoothing the bedclothes, in order to enable him to write on them, and Campbell.said, "you have.given me these papers, Mackay?" The latter replied, " I have, Campbell;" and then said, " but what about your mother and sisters ?" When Campbell answered, " Never,mind them, they are all right." During this time no sum of money was mentioned. . The case will be continued to-morrow. 13,226 letters were despatched from the Christchurck post-office last Saturday by the San Francisco mail. Australia, with London mails of 28th June, sailed from San Francisco for Auckland on the 28th,July. City of New York,.with New. Zealand mails left Auckland on the 14th July, and arrived at San Francisco on the 26th.