TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3116, 30 January 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

The. Stewart Island Tin Mines,

Wellington, Wednesday.' Mr Ward, member for Invercargill, has promised the Miiiister of Mines to obtain 1 .owt of Stewart Island tin to send to the Pans Exhibition. Thirty-eight :appiicatims. for: leases have : been received,, eaoh for sixty; acres. Tlio • tin vein covers the greater portion - of - the -Valley in PegaSus Bay.

Preparing for the Russians. . ; Wellington, Wednesday;Another lime inch gun has been mounted at PointJHalswell., - - Cook's Tounsts Company. Wellington,. Wednesday. Cook's Company have taken 15,000! copies of the tourists'.,Guido issued 1 by the Survey department; and have specially printed 8000 move in Pencil. The French Consul 'is'translating thorn and: thny. will be ovor the world. s

< Dangerous Ford. Greymoutu, January 29. Kum : Sing, a- Chinaman, was drowned while endeavoring to ford tli« Aliuura Sivor. He very.nearly dragged his companion with hira,- " . Thrown from His Horse- .

Auoksand, January 29. Baker, head groom in the employ of the New Zealand Stud Company,' was found yesterday on the roadside at'Panmure, lying in a pool of blood with his face and head severely cut, It is supposed that he was thrown from his horse. He was brought to the hospital, but has not yet recovered consciousness. • '

Distnot Court. Invercarqill, January 29, The District Court was occupied all day with the action H. McLeod v. Hawson, for damages for nonfulfilment of agreement. The plaintiff is father of MoLeod Bros., drapers, who lately filed here, and entered into negotiations with the defendant to purchase the stock-in-trade for his sons. He paid to Hawson the £2OO required as a deposit with the Oflicial Assignee, and contended that Hawson was to finance the rest of the money, receiving 1175 for his -trouble and risk. A further sum of £2OO was to be deposited in the bank to cover the deficiencies, if any, on bills, given by McLeod Bros, to Hawson for the stock. The defendant .paid -the deposit to the Assignee, but'did not complete the transaction, on the. ground that liis understanding was that plaintiff was the financier for him, and not vice versa; that tho bills were to bo approved; and that the second £2OO had n'ot been placed in the banlt as stipulated. The plaintiff lost his £2OO, and no<v sought to recover, The stock having been sold to another .tenderer, the jury of four gave a verdict- for the plaintiff. McLeod is the defendant in the action by the Assignee for tlie value ofthe goods sent by his sons to him in Tapanui shortly before -filing.

House-Breaking Implements. Auckland, January 29. At the Police Court to-day John Coleman, charged with being unlawfully at large in the Colony, having beeu sentenced in Victoria to - two years' imprisonment, with hard labour, for having house-breaking implements in his possession, was ordered to ,be sent to Viotoria. "'flrgpant Lavie, a member of the Victorian Police force, gave evidence that when the conviot Coleman appealed, and was released on bail, he absconded, and did not put in an appearance when the case came up for hearing. The Court dismissed the appeal, and upheld the conviction?

The Mayor and the Judge. New Plymouth, January 29,: - A largely attended meeting numbering between 800 and 300 persons was held to-night when the following resolution was passed:—"That intho opinion of this meeting Mr Bailey, the late Mayor, acted in the true interests of the people in requesting the Minister of Justice ', to ohatige Mr Rawaon, the District Judge and Besident Magistrate from this district."

Fatal Accident. Dunedin, Wednesday. Mary Gray, 46 years, married, was killed by the upsetting of a cart on Greeu Island road. Her daughter escaped uninjured. Maharahara Copper Mine.

■ Naner, Wednesday. The Maharahara copper mine is placed on the market in 60,000 £1 shares, but only 24,000 will -be offered at present. The promoters, including Captain Russell, Ormond, McLean, and others, have taken 17)000 shares on the same terms its, the general public. -