Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2071, 17 July 1896, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

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WHLLINQTON.'JuIy 16

Ocr fifty members of «.he b*r assembled to wplcttme Mr -E*dw<u<ls on his resumption of n seat on the ijiidical bench'this-morning. Mr Travers on thw behalf greeted the who replied britfly saying that ho cosild not iK'pe to fill Judge Richmond , s;place,'but would do his best to deserve the com-' mendations both of suiters and ihe bar. Ddni-'din, Joi,Y 16. ! There has 'been a heavy fall of show during the duy jNVKtVCAI'.GILL July 16.

W.-J Hyndtnnn. storeraan for W. S Raster, grocer, was fiaed Is end costß for supplying a customer with a bottle ofschnappe. The magistrate said that, ha imposed only a nominal penalty as the accused derived no profit from the transaction, and the case appeared to be an isolated one.

Mklbournh:, July 16

Blftck Fquall has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup, and Mahee for the Caulfield Cup.

London, July 15.

The Irish landlords are incensed at the concisions to the tenantry, and urge that the Irish' Land Bill should be abandoned

The weather is still tine nnd the wicket good for the third day of the match, but the attendance is again small. The Leicester team were all out in their first innings for 81 runs, Holland 41.

The Queen will treat Li Hung Chang as a state guest.

Berlin, July 15

The Kaiser has directed a warship to be fitted up experimentally to burn brown coal.