TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1870, 26 March 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the annua! meeting of the Canterbury Frozen Moat Company at Christchinch on Friday, a dividend of 7 p«r cant, was declare!, and £l5B carried forward to new account. Messrs John Grigg, J. T. Ford, and Jobs Deans were olocted directors.

Very heavy r*ius have fallen on the West Co-'iHt, and the rivers are flooded. No damage is reported, and tlie miners art) we'd supplied with water. The Mount d'Or Company, West Coast, wanlied up 321 ounces, of the valua of £1221. A dividend of 2i per share iias been dec'fved.

Application was made to the Resident Magistrate at Auckland to imprison a married woman vho had dec'ined to come up for px.imim-liou r«c;ardinij.i promissory fto!.e duo by her. His Worship said that hs must fellow lit* precedent of English law in tuich ease*. A woman cou.d not be pscHonaPy taken in execution, and he niiisit decline to make an ordrr. The def'-'ndant in litis case was the wife of Mr VV. J. Hunt., of Simoon fame. John Qarran, whose leas were cnißhed while lyiag in his hut at M«riua, Neluoo, by a faiiiojr tree, and who laid undiscovered for lire day a, rallied somewhat after beioaj admitted to the hospital, hut set in on Friday morning, and the stipulation of both limbs was resorted to. He died shortly aftor the operation.