TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1498, 27 April 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

On Tuesday, H. H, Lusk and W. L, Rees, solicitors, proceed by the outward mail to Samoa, in conned ion with th« land troubles between Cornwall an i McArthur. Damages are laid at £IO,OOO, but the real fight is over 200,000 acres of land. A number of curious legal points are likely to crop up in the case, and it will probably be carried on appeal first (o t|.e Supn-me Court in Fiji, and lastly to tire Pi ivy Council. The further appointment of con my chairmen as conservators of state forests, <3 gazetted. The H. Battery of Artillery (Nelson) has been transferred from the South Island brigade to the North Island brigade. Mr R. Beetham, R.M., on Thursday, at Christchurch fined a publican £lO and costs for supplying a drunken man with liquor. The case was brought forward by two well known advocates of total abstinence, who followed the man into the hotel to see whether the barman would serve him.

At the Supreme Court Christchurch on Thursday, a case in which a barman named George Ritchie claimed £750 damages for slander, against Tom Green, licensee of the Sydenham Hotel, resulted in a verdict for one farthing, without costs.

Mr David Manson, farmer of Coalgate, died at the Christchurch Hospital on Friday morning from concussion of the brain, the result of a fall from his horse on Tuesday last. Agues Graham, a young girl ten years of age, dropped down dead at Dunedin on Thursday whilst on her way to school. A Dunedin baker was on Thursday fined £2 10s and coats for selling fight bread, the magistrate characterising it as a fraud which affected the poor materially. The judge has reserved his decision in the case where Mrs D’Albedyhl seeks to recover £IOOO from her husband. John McCormick, a miner, working in the Otago claim at the Bine Spur, was knocked off a ledge twenty feet high by a fall of earth. He sustained severe internal injuries. The Chairman of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce has wired to the Colonial Treasurer asking him to bring the merits of Foveaux Straits, Stewart Island, as a fishing ground before Messrs Hendry and Henderson, the Scottish fishermen, who are inspecting the waters of the colony for a site for fishcuring purposes.