AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3485, 7 September 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

September 7. William Black, book-keeper in Messr. Mitehelson and Co.'s office, died suddenly yesterday. A tallow and manure company has been formed with a capital of £5000. The Rotomahana brought £10,000 specie for the Bank of Australasia. A strange case came on in Chambers yesterday before Mr Justice Gillies, that ofDunnett v. Lynch. Mr George appeared for the defendant, and moved for an order for leave to appear and defend an action which is of a peculiar character. It is brought on a promissory note alleged to have been made by the defendant for £1000, and held by the plaintiff; but Lynch disavows all knowledge of the bill, which has already been the subject of a good deal of mysterious speculation. It purported to be made and signed by the defendant in favor of one Pierce Crosbie, and came into the hands of the plaintiff, who alleged that he gave for it valuable consideration and special services. It appeared in evidence that there are two actions for iibel pending in the Supreme Court in connection with the affair. The defamatory matter complained of by the plaintiff (Crosbie) in those actions ia that Lynch and another person named Patrick Gleeson accused him of forging Lynch's name to a bill for £1000. Pierce Crosbie was a clerk in the service of the Bank of New Zealand at Dargaville. He claimed damages on account of the loss of bis situation in tbe bank. It appeared also that plaintiff, as holder of the bill, presented it to John Abbott for discount, but Abbott detained it two or three days, and returned it to plaintiff (Dunnett) and refused to discount it. Plaintiff claims as holder for a consideration of £2 advanced to Crosbie, and further for services as a broker in endeavoring to get the bill discounted. It is in his capacity as holder of the bill that the present action was brought. It was also prayed by the defendant that his Honor would direct that the bill should be deposited in the custody of the Registrar of the Court. His Honor said that this was an action in which it was clear an order should be made in the terms of the application. He therefore directed that leave to plead should be given, and that the bill should be deposited in the hands of the Registrar of the Court.

inhabitants of Waipawa County, to consider the advisability or otherwise of the construction of a breakwater or harbor suitable to the requirements of Hawke's Bay, will be held in tho Oddfellows' Hall, Waipawa, afc 8 o'clock to-night. The Scinde Lodge of Freemasons holds its monthly meeting in the Masonic Hall, Tennyson-street, this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Nominations for the Grand Handicap Sweepstakes Pigeon Match, to be contested afc Taradale on Tuesday next, will be received up to 9 o'clock to-night, by Mr Hooper, Napier, or by Mr M'Cartney, Taradale. The quarterly meeting of the Napier North, South, and Central Licensing Committees will take place in the Court-house, Napier, to-morrow at noon. Mr Lyndon holds an auction sale of fancy goods and silver jewellery at his mart tomorrow at 11 a.m. Tenders for additions to the Hastings sale yards, and for metalling the old yards, must be sent in not later than to-morrow. Messrs Banner and Liddle sell a consignment of stove furniture by auction afc their rooms to-morrow afc 11 a.m. The annual meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Cricket Club takes place afc Beecrofb's Hotel, Hastings/on Saturday evening. The re-opening of tho Napier Commercial Academy has been postponed from the 3rd to the 10th October next. An ordinary meeting of the members of the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute will be held at the Athenteum, Napier, on Monday evening nexfc. A vocal and instrumental entertainment, under the auspices of the Pride of Hawke's Bay Lodge, 1.0. G.T., will be given in the district school - room, Port Ahuriri, on Wednesday evening nexfc. A teacher for the Heretaunga school, Seventy-mile Bush, is wanted. The finder of a carriage lamp, which is lost, will be rewarded on returning same to H. Start, cab driver. Messrs Blythe and Co. are selling ladies summer fcweed and Persian cord costumes afc reduced prices. Every description of furniture can be supplied afc the shortest notice at Mr R. Rush's furniture warehouse, opposite the Town Hall, Hastings. Mr McCartney, Taradale, will give Is each for pigeons brought to his place up to 10 a.m.. on Tuesday nexfc. Mr P. Gillespie, Emerson-street, has two 600-gallon tanks for sale cheap. The Weekly Mercury, a journal eminently adapted as a medium for forwarding colonial news to friends afc home, will be published to-morrow morning, and can be / obtained afc the office of this paper and from 1 all agents. ' The time of the departure of the steamer Kiwi for Wellington is still further postponed till 2 p.m. to-morrow. Woods' trico saron fluid is a valuable preparation for increasing the growth of the hair. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.

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