TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1540, 15 January 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The new police regulations appeared on Wednesday night as a supplement to the Qanettsi, At a special meeting of the Wellington Gas Company a resolution to increase the capital to £200,000, by the creation of 10,000 new shares at £lO each, was carried. The Chairman stated it was the intention of the Company to greatly increase their business. Mr Jellicoe, solicitor, Wellington, on Wednesday swore an information against John Peate (representing himself as a Scottish solicitor), for having threatened to take bis (Jellicoe’s) life, saying he would. “ knife ” him. During a recent case, in which Peate was defendant, be was subjected to a severe cross-ezamina-tion by Mr Jellicoe. He is now undergoing,imprisonment for debt, but will bo brought before the Magistrate when released. At Duaedin on Wednesday a young man named Egby was fined 5r for disturbing a person on New Year's Day by knocking at his door for a lark. At a meeting of the Presbyterian Synod, Dunedin, the report on the state of religion stated that while the number of communicants on the rolls showed an increase of 600, there was really a decrease of about 100. It stated that either the rolls were badly kept, or there was an alarming process of lapsing from membership, At the evening sitting a motion was carried that a loyal address be presented to the Queen on the occasion of her jubilee, and to the Governor on his present vis t. Two applications ware received for Hie position of Theological Professor,- and the Rev. John Dunlop, M.A., Dundee, was appointed. The. other candidate was the Rev. Mr Finlaysod, of Blueskio. At the Dunedin Supreme Court on Wednesday, in the case John Kelso v. Peters anti Mcßrearty, a claim for £2OO damages, the statement of claim set forth that plaintiff, a ploughman at East Taieri, on November ' 6th, 3885, employed defendants (Peters, a chemist, and Mcßrearty, a medical practitioner) to extract from him a decayed tooth. That defendants so negligently and unskilfully went to work that they extracted a sound toeth and broke the plaintiff’s lower jaw, whereby be had suffered, and will suffer, great pain, and incurred medical and other expenses, and was unable to work for a long time, to his serious loss and damage. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for £5. The balance of Sir George Grey’s, library and curios for the Free Library have arrived at Auckland. A bailiff named Walah arrested a jockey or horse trainer named Luiog, at the North Shore (Auckland), for debt, when the latter suddenly jumped overboard from the ferry steamer to escape. The bailiff recaptured him.

The great midiummer pigear* match of £IQ& shot at Qishorne oij Thursday, whb wpo by R. dcolt, M&Phael 2, Wyllie 3.

W. R. Waters was re»arrested at Wellington on Thursday. The Magistrate’s Court, Hokitika, was occupied op Wednesday and Thursday by three Justices, hearing the perjury informations arising out of the recent Hokitika affiliation case. The result so far is one dismissed and one withdrawn, and one committed. It » Wobtk A Tmal,—"l was troubled lor many years with kidney complaint, gravel, 4e., my blood became thin, I was dull and inactive, could hardly crawl about, and was an old worn-out man all over, and could get nothing to help me until I got American Oo’a Hop Bitters, and now my blood and kidneys are all right, and I am as active ae a man of thirty although I am seventy-two, and I have no doubt it will do as well for others of my age. It is worth the trill.”--(Father). Notice Advt. The nautical enquiry into the collision between the Dunedin dredge and the Omapere has been adjourned till Tuesday. Not a fiivmai, u They are not a beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drags. They do not tsar down an already debilitated system, but build it up. One bottle contains more real hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer, Physicians prescribe them. Rochester, U.8.A., Evening Bxprese, on American Hop Bitters. The Government has refused to con* tioue to find work for the Christchurch unemployed.

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