Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3205, 15 May 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

SENSATIONAL REPORT,

Auckland, Wednesdaj

Some sensation was caused to-day by the publication in the Herald, of lyljaj'' if polli?'' secret court justice," A son of. a wealthy; citizen was arreßted for larceny, and the Herald asserts the police convened a secret sitting of the Court in . the afternoon,, when two ; Justices sat., A marked one pound ! note.,was found by the detective.'.,on' the boy, but the Herald says when, the case was-called the. Inspector of Police raid he believed the prosecution .did not wish to proceed, and the case was dismissed, matters.' bejng managed so well, that the ci(se did not appear.in the.papers., f lip Herald coijplud,es;by demanding air enquiry, and'paysif 'this is the way justice-is to be adminj6teredin Auckland, there, was .nothing to hinder most ; serious oriines.lrein|[ «»pouhded.!-.' ; ' ..'.'

Major Kemp inDanger f 1 Wakqa'itoi, May Is. oi Major Kjemp, the Maori chief ,of h Pntiki, is very ill from inflammation J l ' ot the lungs. Fears 'are entertained ut of his not recovering" ' n b The Price of Gas, J V Wanganbi, May H. P At the Borough Council meeting n to-night it wes resolved to meet the b Committee of the Gas Company and a hear their proposals as to a future '' reduction in the price of gas, but t without prejudice to the Council's ' proposed schema for the Corporation ' Gas Works. ; r £ Begging Alms. j Wanqanui, May U. 1 , A man named Johnston vas sent ' : to prison to-day for begging. alms, . He was sentenced to two months, 1 , . i , | ! Serious Accident; Wasoanui, May 14, ! An accident h»ppened to-day to Mr ! W. Russell, setter, of Goat Valley, who was thrown out of a cart, and - so badly injured that his recovery is • donbtful. t —————————— ( A Coal Find. j[ Dunedin, Wednesday. I A good find of caal is reported at' I Young's farm, Lovell's Flat. The B seam is oyer 20feet thiok. A ajndig catd'is being formed to work the" find. e ie . ir Fatal Accident at Football. Auckland, Wednesday. t. While a football match wbb being d played between the Mangapai and the v. Waikuku .teams, and only about five \ minutes'after th» beginning of the j' game, J. Pitman, a strongly built i halfcaste, and a good player, was e, killed by a kick just below the heart, i; or possibly by falling and thus meeting )i the blow, He ran a short distance "' and dropped in a stooping position, ? B , with his hands across the pit of his 1 stomach.' He, said, "I've been kicked or something," and fell back and was lie gone.

Napier Land Board.

Napieb, Wednesday. At the meeting of the Land Board the Commissioner said that the revenue for the past year amounted to LIG.OOO, One hundred and eleven thousand acres had been dis-posed-of, being forty thousand more than last year, Hardly a piece of Crown land in the district but what it is not enquired for..

Fast Skating. CiißisTcnußou, May 14. A meeting of creditors of Mr Donnolly, of the Palace Eink, was held to-day. Mr Donnelly's statement of unsecured creditors-were put down at £2046, and secured creditors £4505, thevalue of the secured being stated . as £4505. The assets were furniture to the extent allowed by the Act, and £4O worth of chairs in the rink. The Bank of Australasia was Becured, not by the bankrupt, but by Mr Benjamin, who had given a guarantee to the bank, taking as security the building ereoted in Christohurcli as a Palace Kink, The equity of redemption of this had been mortgaged to the Mercantile Finance Company for £500;" and had been transferred to them on condition of their release of the security. The property inoluded the leaseholds in Christohuroh, Dunedin, and Nelson on which skating ' rinks wer,e erected. The bankrupt stated that: a partnership existed between one Piper and himself, and there existed to him a liability of £BOO, for which he had been threatened with a writ, Messrs Benjamin and Jacobs had become guarantees for the advance of certain money by the Bank of Australasia, He had also, given a mortgage over the Christohuroh and Dunedin rinks to Mr Benjamin to secure certain promissory note 3. The mort- ', gagee had taken possession of the rinks. The statement.on the table showed tho amount received during the fifteen months immediately preceding filing to be L 7086 18s 6d, This included profit on the.Christchurch rink, L96818s lOd; Dunedin rink, L 820; Nelson rink, L 280; profit on skates, I*loß 8s Id. The amount paid in connection with the Christchurch rink was L508917s 4d. In his statement the bankrupt accounted for his losses by the cost'of Christchurch rink, whioh was as stated above, and was only taken into account at LB2OO, and other matters, whijh made a total deficiency, of L2OOO, after taking into consideration the profits on the rinks, on the skates, and the amount put in. The bankrupt stated when he camo here he had-L4OOO. The meeting adjourned to allow the books to be examined,

Collision at Sea. Auckland, May 14. At about 7 o'clock to-night the Union S,S. Company's steamer Australia, bound for East Coast ports and Wellington, when in the Rangi. toto Channel, six miles outside the harbour, (collided with the American barque Essex and the tug Awahina, which were lashed together, and coming to port, The; Essex was coming into the%rbour7rom'Tsris; bane, and had been picked up by the tug outside Tiri two hours previously. The cause of the accidentia not yet known, but lights were seen bofore the collision occurred. The Australiastruck the other boats about the bows, but she received little injury, her after port quarter being slightly dented and the deok planks somewhat started. The bowsprit of the Essex was carried away, and slight injury was done to tho rigging, The most serious damage - was received by the tug. It is thought her stem has been twisted.out of place and the planking strained, and as she was making water, she was beached at Rangitoto; The Australia, which had a number of passengers onboardi returned to port, but; leaves again at 2 o'clock to-morrow. The Essex sailed to an anchorage in the stream, The s.s. Kototoi has gone to render assistance to tho Awahina and her crew. There was a good deal of shouting but no confusion on board tho vessels when they collided. " ' I

More Bank Frauds in Aw .'.>' tralia-

- During the Chmtmas holidays last year, a clerk named Charles Rivers AJlpress, took, advantage of the temporary, oipsipg tQ disappear rpm tbo] Cpllingwood branch of the 'Oo'mmerciai : Bank of Victoria, where employed as teller, with

|7#worth of the; Bank's'lineyi' lrid;in spite of the jhandspine,regard offered ; by .the hisiarrest, notbing.fi'as heard/of him. During we;recent liolidays a fraud of atf exaoijy similar nature has been/perpetrated,'' the bank, in this instance being the Prahran branch ! of the; Bank: of; Victoria, and the amount; misappropriated. ;£2200...„.A named Artber Edward Bold Hornbuckle; held the; position of accountant and teller at this branch. He has been in the employ of the Bank between four and five years, and was transferred; from Heathcote to the Prahran branoh about eight or nine months ago. He itas an excellent servant, and bore an unimpeachable character. He attended at the bank on Thursday, and at the closing hour placed the teller's box in the safe in accordance with his usual custom. It was, of course, taken for granted that his cash was all 1 correct. 'Yestefday morning, when . the Easter holidays ended he failed to put in an appearance,- and as no explanation was received from; him suspicions were aroused. The duplicators of the safe were obtained, and it was opened His casli was counted and found to 10£2200 short,/It has since transtired thatVdn Good Friday morning ie went down to Sobnapper Point ill a racht with some friends, but left them ie same evening on- the pretext mt he had received a telegram,

informing him that his father was seriously ill. Nothing has since been heard of him. The Bank offers a reward' \of LSOO for his arrest. It is a strange oiroumstancethat Allpress, referred to above, and Hornbuckle I were schoolfellows together.in Sandhurst.

George Alexander Shaw, teller in the National Bank, Quorn, South Australia, aged twenty-six, early in March obtained a fortnight's leave of

absence, but just prior to the expiration of his leave he asked for a week's extension, When his extra leave

was terminated, the books were examined, and a warrant issued for jhis arrest on a charge of embezzling

while teller of the Quorn branch £2 10s on November 19th, 1888. The dsficienoy is between £7OO and £BOO. It was supposed that Shaw took his passage by the B.M.S, Austral to Western Australia, as on March J9th there appeared the name of G, A. Shaw in the saloon passenger list for Albany, but it is since thought that he went by the Frenoh steamer to Mauritius, the place from which he came, He had suppressed customers' payments, and falsified his returns skilfully, defying detection at (be time,