TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1652, 8 March 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

'/■ (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION'): I ■ : , DuNEDirii Saturday. i In a case heard m the Resident Magistrate's Cbur,t' ' ; a Hussar was sued £<ji contri£u't'ions ' toward the ex- : pjenses bit the catering' at the receititfencamptnent, but th'e-Eesiderit Magistrate decided that 1 asdefendant was not present at thearieeting which appointed the Committee Ije was: nqt. liable. It was attempted to .recoyer, Is for a broken, cup, ( which was^h'anded £6 the.- defendant on.' horseback and was : broken by his horsie bolting, but the Magistrate decided that, 1 as the cup was given as bailment, defendant,-, m of negligence, was not I . liable;. . . .The difficulty f ths funeral ployed has been settled, and the men will be. put to work --of place o;£ residence. " ■■ ; *"' *•■■*-*: l ! i J im Aftir, Saturday. .In jthe District Court yesterday Judge Ward sentenced a^man named- Stanyer to three months' Kird labor for fraudulent bankruptcy. ,_ r . . ? .Chris;tchu|MsH, .Saturday.. , Only ten oi the unemployed applied for" work s at the terms offered, 4s a day. -The others stand out for five. They held three 'meetings m: the Cathedral Square yesterday. The first, at 10 o'clock, was attended by iSO men. ' " "'" " irtgufest is to be held at Southbridge fjjp a woman.named McMillan, who, die.d fin childbirth on 22nd February. No doctor ; w^ present; . but malpractice by the nurse' is suspected. • Mr ; M. Mur phyj ; seor&tary of the Agri..cultural and' Pastoral Assribiation, has [forwarded to the : Indian and Colonial r E^hlsiti6n two cases containing samples :af gra'eses ■ and grain straw^ many, of wbScH are of extraordinary growth. The Ainuri County Council have obi jeeted to;pay the quota demanded from j-them' by the. United Charitable, Aid j .Board for North* Canterbury, their contention, being that the hasjs of the assessment 'should be pppulatioh and not area. Mp Caleb WhiteftJbrd, who is appointed with t\yo .other commissioners to hear the appeal, sat this evening, -but the argument was postponed- to . Tuesdayy to- enable the counsel'for tbj appeUajit to ob tain statistics upon wh ; cH to ground his \argument. ' • # :^ 4?^ Hokitika,; Saturday. . i"ThO Barjfc of New /Zealand shipped "yesterday '2s2o ounces of gold* valued at i;lo,oßo^;beipg .their month's purchases.. The yield U ' low/ bmng to the dry' jseSTsoh. . ... '• , ; ■; . : . ; .". . iV: -.- _ ... . '.} manager of the Ross United Company reports; ; yesterday . that , ; the; yield >showß an improvement oni the. results of "previous f washings. ; JBpth faces -;pf ;.th« prospectinc drive are Jooking well, > I ;\ .'; ' : </f f Kos% Saturday. ; The Hospital, Committee meet. tib-night to investigate certain charges brought' against Pr.McLead,. the Surgeon Super-, intendeht'jof the institution, for his, treat-. • ment of 'a late inDatient. ' ,' . ".-.', ■ . v • ;■■ i Auckland, Saturday. , .> . iSeveral publicanß m (Xty NorthhaSdn^ private bars, inspiteof th% .decision of '[ > the Licensing Committee, the police are to prose'cute'them, and th'e a cases willipe heard before the m'aJgistrate'as test case's. i " The Resident Magistrate f 4 Hiwpri6t jftft fixed the'da'tefpr the scrutiny into the; City South Kcensiiig electioni' m ? whifeh J three members are petitibried against, and will probably be. unseated through a number of voting- papers being informal! ; .' - : : *-