MEW ZEALAND TELEGERAMS.

1 (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ! .. Wejuucngioit, jiDjacember 11. .Th&caae againat ,TEflomaß for: perjary, on being retried fellvihrbtigh, las it was made'to appear that: the r>p^iaorier might not have known it wa3 i: a?promlßSory note he. ! was accused of signing. : . . . ! i . Kirk -got 12 months -for. !attemt)tlng' to abscond. . The obher charges . .we're abandoned. ... V ,]/ •• .':V>rO'' v ' ' \ Edward Howell,;-ffi,ho haa -ireoently aarl ved from Auckland^ was . .demanded., there, oa a warrant,' -charging rhlm / wlth v false .presences. .;. . ; : ...."• The corrected eheeprra tq rn£(. How pabliahed ahpw the total sheep la the colony In A,prll last to be 19,857^730, (being an increase of 786,978. The North Island contributes 561,064 of the increase, and the South Island 325.914. TWhpnthe Premier" was at Maskerton a deputation urged him to make an alteratlon~in"i "the" "charita'ble^ard" law, whioh Would enable looatibleaf' to devote their own money to thelr'dwn' 1 poori! In the oaße of Wairarapa it give much more to to the united boards 1 ' tlian. it'jreoeived. Mr Sedlon expreaieii ad['opinionunfavorable to the Act, but leglaiature was opposed to any decrea'ae in the aiza of^the dißtricts. : ';He •'promised to look, further into the : matter?" ' ' ■ „.,, Information has been l receiyed|:Jn town of the arrest at Otakl of ; alyotfng" t ;woman named Lizzie Price, barmaid, -at the F.ainily Hotel in that 1 . t^wnßhl^V on a charge of having miardered ! her ! infant child. The body^was' 'dlacoverecl In a ;boxi; „..■■ ... ,';,. '/"■,.■ " ■' ; The, .local subscription to the Hawke'a Bay relief f arid ainSnnW to about L 330. Mr Foster Goring, a very old resident, died at his residence, Hawkestone street.. ■ The decea s ed gentleman" was for a long time clerk to the Executive Council of the colony,-, but .resigned! that oflice four yeara ago. Deceased succumbed to an. attack of bronchitis at. the age of 83 years, ,He waa , a son of: the. late Sit Charles Foster Goring, of r ' Highden, 'Sussex. /£he deceased gentleman,,' yraa a • widower and leave* six children^ three of . whom are : married in'Eiisfland: "The 1 othera are Colonel Ooring, in charge of the Perman-. ent Artillery at Auckland, Mrs John»toa, wife of 'he Hon W W Johnston, and Mr Barry Yelverton GoringWanganui, December 11. By a bus accident on Saturday night Mrs Love and Mr Lundon, statlonmaster at Aramoho Junction, were seriously injured The latter lies in a praoarloua condition. Napier, December 11. The body of the Rev Douglas, drowned in the flood, has been recovered. .; ■; The collection in the city church s yesterday In aid of the relief f and realised a substantial sum. ■<