TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 131, 26 September 1896, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[Special to Standard.] Wellington, This day. The police have received word that 15 Bank of England five-pound notes have been stolen from a visitor at Randwick racecourse, Sydney. The thieves are supposed to be on their way to New Zealand, and the public are warned against cashing the notes. Feildixg, This Day. Between six and seven hundred persons were present at the Volunteer Hall last night to hear Mr Isitt's reply to Mr Bagnall. The meeting was a stormy one. A resolution was moved by Mr Bagnall, " That this meeting pledges itself to oppose Prohibition by every legal means, as it would detract from the liberty of the subject and the freedom of the individual, and because 4t would tend to intensify the very evils it sought to prevent." The voting was about equal, and the Chairman was unable to give a decision. Gisborne, This day. Mr C. A. Fitzßoy, Mayor of Hastings, is out for the Waiapu seat. Timaru, this day. A young man, a groom named Smithson, charged with attempting suicide by taking as a poison chloride of silver, was discharged, as he denied any intention of doing himself any harm. He merely wished to frighten a girl of whom he was jealous.