GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 18 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

BANK TELLER ARRESTED. By Telegraph.— fteaa Associativa. Wellington, Friday. The young man named John Aloysius Campbell, teller of the Bank of Australasia, who was arrested yesterday in connection with the alleged defalcatio»s at Dunedin, was brought before the court to-day and remanded till March 20. Bail was fixed at £ 4OO, also two sureties of £2OO each. NATIVE LAND CASE. Wellington, Friday. Judgment was given, by the Chief Justice to-day in the case Pateena Kerelii and others v. Taituma Karangatana and others concerning the subdivision of a block of 82,760 acres in Taupo district. Court was asked to order a rehearing of an investigation made in 1887. The application was refused on the grounds that the chief judge ol the Native Land Court had no jurisdiction. Notice of appeal was given. THE WANGANUI BAR. Wanganui, Friday, boundmgs taken on the bar this morning by the engineer and harbor-master show 18ft at high water spring tides and reveal the fact that the water is deepening between the moles, owing to the lowering of the bar and the concentration of the ebb tide by the making up of the moles now in course of con° sfcruction. The engineer expects 20ft shortly, and says that the increased depth is due entirely to the influence of the works in progress.