TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 118, 23 April 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.") Kaikoura., April 21. The Sheep Department sued Henry Inglis for not herding. After a lengthy hearing of the case for the prosecution, and an address by Mr McLean for the defence, a verdict was given for Mr Inglis without calling upon him for any evidence. The decision evoked- considerable applause m Court, the expression of feeling being with difficulty suppressed. In two cases for dealing m ferrets without a permit, fines of £5 were imposed. Mr Whitefoord, 8.M., presided. Dtjnkdin, April 21. An insurance case of some interest was heard at the District Court. A Southland farmer insured a house on his farm with the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand for .£IOO. At the time the proposal was made a tenant was m occupation, and it was mentioned to the agent that the tenant was about to leave. When he left it was used occasionally by servants and swaggers, but was not kept m good repair. The house was burnt down, and the Company contested the claim, mainly because the house had been unoccupied without notice, and because it was of less value than i-100. A verdict was given for i-50, as that amount was shown to be the value. Chbistchurch, April 21. Five stacks ef wheat at Alford Forest, belonging to Mr Benjamin Eade, were destroyed by fire to-day. They were insured m the New Zealand office for .£•200. Mr B. T. Booth, temperance lecturer, concluded his mission here to-night. He was presented with a piece of plate, and Mrs Booth was the recipient of a jewelcase filled with sovereigns. The total value of the gifts is about £100. 5286 persons have donned the blue ribbon during the mission, 3072 of whom have signed the pledge. Invehcarqill, Apiil 21. At the Supreme Court to-day, Ah Sun a Chinaman, was sentenced to three months* hard labor for stealing a watch and chain trom a miner's hut at Round Hill. Patrick Burke was put on trial for concealing property from the Official Assignee m bankruptcy. This is the man who asserts that he lav down to sleop by the road side with .-£265 m gold on him, which he had not been able to find since. The jury were locked up for the night, being unable to agree. These were the only criminal cases, but the civil list is heavy and important. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to.day. There are only two criminal cases for trial. The Crown Prosecutor intimated that he would enter a nolle prosequi m the case of Garrie and Meikle, who were arraigned at the last session on a charge of perjury, and m whose case the jury disagreed. K"apieh, April 21. At the Education Board meeting today there was a full meeting, Mr Orraond alone being absent. Owing to the Government having only supplied the Board with one-third of the amount required for urgent wants, the meeting adjourned to this day week to consider the advisability of resigning, and throwing the onus of administering the education of the district on the Government. Auckland, April 21. A section of 700 acres on the Taupiri Coal Reserve, adjacent to the Taupiri coalmine, was put up by the Crown Lands Board for lease at 25s per annum. It was run up to-day to per annum, the purchaser being Mr W. H. Clarke, who outbid the Coal company, A young man, named William Hacken has been drowned while rafting timber at Whangaroa. I