NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2058, 15 September 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

VVKU.IN'UTON, Saturday. Jiih K\ccuti\c Committee of the Exhibition have decided to accept the Oder of Mi 'le \o, MH.R.to provide twenty M.lOll gnls tioni O:aki. who will give thiee untu taimncnU, conflating of dancing, singing, &o. Hon. .Messrs Buckley and Tolo, the Biyet Xiii len uoinmis>H)iiei-', met this •noiuinn foi tin* piupo-.o ot taking further e\iileiiLe. hut adjourned until the aftcriiuuu, v hen the c\ idonce ot Sir George Whitmote will be taken. Messrs Izard ai.d Bull, counsel for Mr Fubden, have cabled Home asking foi an extension of the commission on the giounds of fuithcr lin pot tan t tudui'-e. It is known that tin's Htjue^t h.is been gi anted, although no otlicial intimation has yet been received.

CHRISTCHURCH, A professional swindler named Mary Belinda Todd, w lth many aliases, was sentenced to twelve months'haul labour for imposing on the landloid of the Templeton Hotel by reptcsciiting herself to be a lady of means, and getting board and lodging on the cheap. A charge of uttering a forged cheque for £111 is pending igainst her. Mr H .). Matthias, chairman of the County Council died of brain tever. He anived here in 1S">1.