TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2153, 24 November 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(united press association.) _.. Inveuoargih, this day. . According to a cable message in the Melbourne papers Mr Stead was only sentenced to three months, and Mr Jaques to ono month.for the Armstrong abduction ease, and not three years and one year respectively, as Reuter's cable reports,

Wellington, November 23, In connection with the New Zealand Rifle Association it is understood that the Government will pay the liabilities of the old Association, and will deal liberally with a new ono if placed under now management, as was proposed at the last annual meeting in Wellington, Mr G. S. Cooper, Under-Secretary for the Colony, who 'has returned from a visit to Marlbourough and Nelson- districts in connection with the administration of the Sheep and Rabbit Acts, reports that within a year he expects that clean certificates will be granted as far as sheep ,aro concerned. With regard to rabbit extermination, strong efforts are being made by settlers, and he considers that the back of the nuisance has been broken,

In the Court of Appeal the case of the Queen v Dockery was called on. This was a very complicated case, involving questions of alleged sales of trust estates. Alter argument-judgment was reserved,