TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2021, 18 March 1890, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The balance-sheet of the New Zealand Eifie Association for the last meeting shows a credit of £l7O, reducing the debt to £248. At Blenheim the case of Stewart v. the Equitable Assurance Company, U.S.A., claim £5Ol for malicious prosecution by an agent of the company concluded on Saturday, and a verdict for £l5O for the plaintiff with costs _ was given. Points of law involving the question of authorised agency were reserved. W. P. Brook, Secretary to the Addington Saleyards Company, was arrested on Saturday on a charge of embezzlement of the funds of the company. The total defalcations, which have been going on since July, amount to £IOO9. His salary was £SO, and his only security is a bond for £IOO. Adam MeMorran, a jockey, charged with a criminal assault on a nurse girl at the Empire Hotel, Wanganui, was discharged, the evidence not being considered sufficient. In the Supreme Court. Dunedin, on Friday Mr Justice Williams gave judgment in a case in which W. Wilkinson sought to recover £IOOO damages from his late partner, Petit, for entering into business before the time fixed in the partnership deed had expired. Ilia Honor gave judgment for ‘ £4OO, costs as per scale, and £ls 15s costs for arguing the law points.H At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Friday, Edmund and Thomas Chamberlain, farmers, Masterton, obtained a verdict for one farthing damages, without costs, against Smith and Hogg, the proprietors of the Wairarapa Star for libel. The libel was contained in a leading article published by them after the last mayoral electoral at Masterton, in which the plaintiffs were’ accused of attempting to carry the election by making use of deliberate untruths. The Star also suggested that it was the duty of the mayor-elect to purge himself of being promoted to his position by deliberate lying on the part of plaintiffs and their co-workers. Jane Lee and F. Jones, charged last week with cruelty to Lee’s tw o young children at Southbridge, were sentenced to one month’s hard labor on Friday, Duncan Martin, who was three weeks’ ago committed for trial on several charges ot stealing goods from his employers, Mason, Struthers, and Company, Christchurch, was on Friday committed on three additional charges of stealing goods, to the value of £ 12, from the same firm,