TELEGRAPHIC.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 149, 18 May 1877, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

•- —■ * .— [Per Press Agency.] .'.';'•• *— -.. »— -■ , .-.■•■•■ •'"" ■-' Dunedin; At the Police Court this morning two Clerks of Boad Boards were fined in a nominal penalty for not forwarding to the Registration-Office a list of ratepayers for the year eliding March 30. ... ...'Y - , .- Chbistchuroh. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, George Robertson, a half-caste, the great wrestler, was brought.up charged, with having abducted a half-caste, girl, Olivia Robertson j under 15 years of age,'from the Maori Kaik, Otago Heads. He was remanded until receipt of. warrant from Dunedin. The Christchurch milkmen are.ooiubini ■- ■ • . • ing to raise the price of milk from _d to ,5d per quart. " .. _ .', ' [What do we care for tlie price of milk in Christchurch? Surely it is; the height of absurdity to telegraph this all over the. country. —Ed. C. Ll]:' After a trial of two, days,, Margaret Henderson and Ellen Adams, who, in a recent civil case at Akaroa, denied on oath having obtained certain goods' from Watkihs, storekeeper there, when strong cvi- - dence had been given to she contrary, admitted the*-}--, had . purchased , them, ahd were committed for trial for perjury./' Turner/the man who had part of his face'torn away by a bull some days ago, is now but of all' danger. : It. is pronounced the most extraordinary case that ever came under the notice of the medical men here. --.■•-. ■ ■ Wellington. .- The principal insurances on the Ocean Mail 'are as follows,: — South British, £7000 ; New Zealand^' £20,000, £10,000 reinsured -: National, £16,000, £12,000 reinsured; Batayia, £4000; Victoria, £1000; .five other insurances in Foreign Companies but the particulars are hot obtainable. The vessel was wrecked three days after leaving Wellington. A meeting of the creditors of Mr O'Shea was' held this afternoon; The - liabilities amount to £29,000, ' and the deficiency £18,000. .The proposed dividend is4s6d. His accounts showed profits, £1100 in 1875 ; loss in 1877, £7000. Auckland. The barque Alacia, at Russell, reports the loss of the Ocean Mail on the Chatham Islands,'bound from Wellington to London with wool. The vessel is a total wreck, and has been sold for- £900 to Ritchie and Co. All hands were saved. The wreck occurred on March 19. Bluff. V The Tararua brings no later news of interest than that received per Wakatipu.