LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 993, 19 August 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Re in Timaru, —-An inquiry|will be Into the fire mMr Lyle's watchmaker’s [Timaru. ' ■ s ; l ;

>ther Levanier.— According to the raph a naan named Alfred ThornpIs levanted from Christchurch and lalcations amount to £20,000 and Ipeat j ho leaves behind to ~£SOOO. bated, however, that- one creditor B rat and.,managed to get ■Thompson left, Nearly half the ■ions'aro the product of embezzle* B3T rest ''Watie the ■s gone to is a mystery, as Thompof a quietYetiring dispoappeared to be striking steadily though it waa .no secret he Huake a heavy income. Bn for Defamation of Character.

that an action for deof character, in which damages ■ at £20,000, has been brought by ■k, late manager of the Colonial ■n Wellington, against Mr W, J. M. The case is to be heard in and evidence is being taken on Haaion in Wellingjon -by Messrs Siev■Land Chapman, .as commissioners Bs plaintiff and defendant repectiyely. nuk, after leaviag_here became mana* Rfta Bank in Australia, but was disftdun consequence, it is stated, of a lr addressed by Mr Larnach to his [her in Sydney, and which was shown Iherdirectors. It is this letter which ns the ground of the present action. laptain Barry on Hanging. —Captain ■ry in his lecture in Auckland on the iging of Winiata, said the Press Lmade far too much of-the affair ; still ■ wer# movements of the body (Bight ■es after the drop,and gurgling sound ■after Winiata fell. The hangman H>t an adept and the rope was,not fit Hg .a.cut, It was strong enough but ■able. The new thimjbl* arrangement Hi failure. The old identity knot B M ot bs hasten in execution. 1 In K| in old times, he had seen indicaHHI i£o twsnty minutes after the Hud the executioner tugging on the the victim, so he wits not sur■,at. >Viniata murmuring » little ■h. the thimble getting under his Hhe could, swear not that the execuHpKigged at ths heels of Winiata, as was boarded up, but after entered the enclosure the rope ceased. Qoubt. —At the sitting of in Timaru last Wednesthe New Zealand Mercantile Agency Company The facts showed that had been sued and judgment for the above amount of the Company while :he was acting as their manager counsel, for the defendants he was ready to adduce proof representations on the part to station hands. Mr vVhite for the plaintiff said as first he had heard of it he was to go on with tha case, and it was adjourned! A second A. Gamsck was . then taken, claimed being £2OO for wages sustained through wrongful The case lasted the whole day being that when Mr Gamack his lands to the New Zealand Mercantile Agency , Combecame manager of Newlands, of r £3OO a year. He absented Hby going to •, the Braernar Station, Country, to look after property . deemed bis own. In this action Bp an j considered he had acted in hostility io their interests, and him. The case had to bo adm till- Tlmrsday, whoa his Honor for the defendants on the that the agreement had been ■ by Mr Gamack absenting' h imself .duties without leave. ■Timaru Relief Fund .—A moetB the subscribers to the above was Timaru last Thursday evening. The

of the provisional trustees showtd total amount received to be 0s 9d of which sum £902 had been ibed in Tiiaaru., Of this sum £585 d had been paid in relief etc.,; and nee of £1529 3s 10s was still in Mr Wakefield then moved—“ That rinanent trustees b« instructed to

p funds at their disposals in the ing manner (1) To set apsrt a hot exceeding £l5O for the erection litable monument in Timaru, which srve to commemorate the events ef

4th, and the heroism of those who r, occaaaion gladly risked their lives s sake of others. (2) To invest the :o advantageously, and as far as le to use only the interest actherefrom in aid of the sufferers by be; disaster, reserving the capital for may be deemed most adrisible by jrmansnt trustees.” Mr W. Collins led the motion. As an amendment 1 Hamersley proposed—“ That the i part of the resolution read as /s:-,-“(2) To invest,the balance and ie principal and interest in aid of the ■h'rs by the late disaster ; in default on the fund the trustees ■avote the balance remaining for the ■of sufferers by other shipping ■ties Timaru.” This having been Bed by Air Ogilvie and fully disb was carried by a large majority, brigirial motion thus amended was agreed to. On the motion of Mr (ns, the Yen. Archdeacon Harper,

and Messrs Wakefield, Zesler, and Gran* ger , were elected permanent trustees. After some further business the meeting terminated* ,

Messrs R. Wilkin and Co., will sell to* day at Timaru, horses, drays, harness, etc. Mr W. Dormer, of the Rangitata Hotel, notifies that he will apply shortly for a transfer of his license to Mr Hubert Watkins. - .

Messrs Maclean and Stewart, Timartl t will sell at their Herse Bazaar today, horses, drays, harness, . pump, freehold sections at Pleasant Point, etc.