SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1170, 1 August 1884, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM QUIT OWN COBRERPOKHENT).

Udnetun,- July 31

Tlie Committee in aid of the Benevolent Institution publish a final Balance sheet, the not total is L 1660. A man named John Boyce was jammed by a trolly at Auckland and killed. . The Government have received replies re the smallpox from Austialia, and are consulting Dr Hector as to the best course to pursue in the matter. Elsinore, of Grovetown, Blenheim, a blind organ grind sr, was charged to* -day with abusing his own daughter, a little over ten years old, he was committed for trial. By to-days San Francisco mail ins was received that the •qnestian of voting _ a subsidy to the. San Francisco mail .se-vice‘had been before Congress, but a hitch had "occurred, now the whole thing is ■practically shelved for 12 months. At Wellington yesterda-,. F. Boydbouse, proprietor of the E veiling Ptcss , •was charged by E. E. Collins, Reuter's lagent in New Eealand, with having illegally published several cablegrams witliin the time prohibited by the Press Telegram Copyright Act. The ■defendant was lined 20s, and will be appealed against. Regardin': Sir Julius Vogel's health, the Daily Times correspondent; say- ; Bather alarming rumours have been ■circulated dining the last day or two ■jij reference to the health ol Sir Julius Vogel, it being stated that he had suffered a dangerous relapse, and was not allowed to see anyone and so Torth. On inquiry I find tint these reports are quite without foundation, Sir Julius is still improving in hea'th, although slowly. The Jockey Club hold their Hunt Meeting on September 13 Mi.

In Ilie case of contempt of Court against tire Evening Star yesterday in the matter of the case Campbell v. Kennedy, the proprietor was ordered to pay ten guineas, the costs of the Court.

At a meeting of the Colonial shareholders yesterday the report and balance sheet were adopted, The statement of T, S, Sibbald’s insolvent estate shows a deficiency of •over L4OOO, A meeting of three of the medical profession today met Mr Milner Stephen and the lady he is said to Lave cured of cancer ; other gentlemen ■were also present. By statements published it does not yet appear in Mr Stephen’s favour. The San Francisco mail arrived tos night.