TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5791, 21 October 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Masterton, Monday. In consequence of the river encroachment on the racecourse, the Wairarapa Jockey Club abandons the 'i’auherenikau course, and will probably hold the annual meeting at Waihenga. AUCKLAND, Monday. The Licensed Victuallers to-day considered Mr. Acton Adams’ Licensing Bill, and were much pleased with it, except the bottle license clause. The meeting adjourned till another day, when it will be further considered. At a public meeting to-night (the Mayor in the chair), a resolution was passed censuring the grand jury for throwing out the bill in the case of alleged cruelty against Captain Murphy, of the Minister of Marine, and Itobsrtson, the mate of the vessel. A resolution was also adopted, asking for a commission of enquiry into the whole circumstances. The meeting was very disorderly, and the speakers on the unpopular side were refused the right of being heard, and were hissed off the platform. Geahamstown, Monday.

Councillor Thornburn’s sou William, who was pouring some molten Babbett’s metal into the journals of the machine at the Queen of Beauty battery yesterday, met with a severe accident, the metal from some damp mould spirting over his forehead and face. The medical examination to-day proved, however, that the ball of the eye was uninjured. Christchurch, Monday.

At the Drainage Board meeting to-day, a statement of the accounts showed that £106,853 17a. 6d. had been realised on the drainage loan debentures. The chairman stated he had deposited £90,000 at interest in banks approved of by the board. Only one case of typhoid fever has been recorded within the last fortnight, and that is distinctly traceable to a dirty drain. A fire occurred at half-past six o’clock this evening and burnt a wooden store on the Pa-panui-road. The building, which contained second-hand furniture and crookeryware, was burnt to the ground ; a small part of the stock was saved.

At the Christchurch Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day Albert Gr. Saunders was charged with aiding and counselling one Edward James to forge a deed of conveyance in Christchurch on March 28, 1579. Mr. R. D. Thomas appeared for the accused, who had been arrested on a warrant issued at Timaru, and a remand was necessary, in order that another party implicated might be brought to Christchurch to answer the charge. Mr. Inspector Hickson admitted it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Christchurch bench to deal with the charge. The accused was remanded until Wednesday, bail being allowed, himself in £SOO and two sureties of £250 each. This charge has reference to the conveyance of rural section 1070, in Timaru. The real owner, Edward James, is said to have been drowned on the West Coast, and another person of the same name is alleged to have been induced to execute a deed of conveyance. Tdiabu, Monday.

Edward Jeffreys, on remand, was committed for trial to-day for wilfully attempting to upset a train at Normanby on Wednesday last. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, D. H. Manning, a publican at Pleasant Point, was charged with aiding and abetting Edward James (now under arrest at Wellington! to forge the name of another person named Edward James, believed to be dead, to a transfer of a certain 100 acres of land near Timaru. The case was remanded till Monday next, bail being allowed. It is likely to turn out one of the most extraordinary cases on record, as the real Edward James has not been heard of for many years. Dunedin, Monday.

Mr. Justice Williams sat in Chambers this ru ■ r the purpose of enabling a return to t;i;.-hi to them of the writ of Habeas Corpus made absolute on Saturday for the production by William Waters, of the son of Charles Woodlock. No answer having been made to the writ, his Honor ordered a writ of attachment to issue.

A couple of medical “ Spiritualists” in Dun-

edin have this day entered an action for hbel against the Mount Ida Chronic’c for £2so**, for comments which appeared in that journal connected with the dea'-h of a man named Scholtz, whom they had operated upon, for deafness. Mr. Hall, Associate of the Chief Justice, and at present acting in Dunedin, and who has been appointed Ih-putv Registrar to the Suoreine Court at is no relation whatever to the Premier. 3a the Supreme C-uirt to-day. before Judge Williams and a special jury. xhe case of Logan v. McKay was heard. 'Mb w,i' nu action to recover the suincf nllejed to have been Ivor, by pl.-iutin to d Aeadanr. who pleaded a simple denial that it was so lent. Mr. Stout appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Macasscj, with him Mr Haggett, for the defendant. Plaintiff is a minor, and the dispute in connection with the Kartigi contract. A verdict for the plaintiff was returned.