TELEPHONE SPECIALS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 313, 23 December 1884, Page 2

TELEPHONE SPECIALS.

Napier Nq ais. [Own COiIItIMPONDKNT.J Napier, December 22, The case of W.irdrop v. Hinum irsh and others, for failure to carry out an agreement to purcaase tue business oi vVardrop and Co., wmen was postponed <u uie last silling oi the Supreme Coan at Napier, nas been heard in Wellington, and resulted in favor ot the defendants. A p r.naneiit Buiidiug bucieiy has been started at Hastings. ine Government nave accepted the services of me opit Naval Coips. i'ne movement tor me esiablishment of a woollen lactory, wincn was on tool some time since, u acquiring a definite shape. Among iho.»e who have given taeir names to the project are inc.uued .dr. unn mJ, Captain Russell, 1\ tanner, J. N. vViiiidaiu, d. S. 1 Lien, and]. G. Kinross. A meeting is io be called

sauii.y after Curist.iias tu ta.tc tiie necessary steps lur uie lormajon oi a company. At the Police Court to-diy, Jaine. But.cr, aged aoo.it .ix.y, w.i> charged witn cu.fi Hiding rape at Hading, on UccemjLr Ist., on one Mary Ann Saunders, aged lourteen. Ihe case lasted o.ei six iiuurs, ana was ultimately dismissed. In ihe course oi tue medical evidence it came out mat what w.is aiiegea to be a braise on the shoulder was made cither with b.ue ink, or bme’ pencil, and was easily washed oifi