TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1524, 26 June 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A man named Wm. Cameron was sentenced on Wednesday.at the R.M. Court, Napier, to six months' imprisonment for endeavoring to obtain £lO from the Post Office Savings Bank by false pretences. He arrived with bis brother's pass-book, on which he had substituted his own name. He clumsily tried to draw out the roonay and was given in charge. Shocks of earthquake were felt at DunediD at 6.17 on Wednesday morning. The first was rather sharp but the ascood was of slight duration, from three to ten seconds. The direction was from north to eouth. A slight shock of enrthquake was felt at Livercargill at 6.21 a.m. It was also felt at Dipton, 36 miles away, and very severely at the Bluff. A tremendous sea running in Foveaux •traits compe'led the Stewart Island steamer to run buck to the Bluff.

A novel point was raised in the Magistrate's Court, Chrißtchurch, on Thursday, by Mr Stringer, the solicitor, in defending a case for sale of liquor after hours. He called attention to fact that, though the amending Licensing Act of 1882 provides that committees may issue extended licenses for 11 o'clock, there is no amendment made of section 184 of the Act of 1881 which names midnight as closing time for those hotels to which extended licenses have been granted. Therefore, he contended, that it was no offence if an hotel which was granted at 11 o'clock license wae kept open to midnight. The Residout Magistrate was inclined to consider the point fatal to the information, but reserved his decision.