TELEGRAPHIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9823, 24 July 1900, Page 7

TELEGRAPHIC.

[per press association.]

Dunedix, Last mVht,

The Council of Churches evidently contemplate taking up the question of trafficking in dredging and other shares, which is considered to be as bad as any gambling matter. The question was brought up to-night, but was blocked as it wa3 new business. Auckland, Last night.

Two Italian seamen from the barque Guiseppe D. Abundo pleaded guilty in tlie police Court to-day to charges of having possession of uncustomed rum and gin. Fines amounting to about £20, or three times the value of the goods, were imposed, with costs. For 31 sections of King Country land were no fewer than 641 applications. Many applications came from the southern districts, and over 20 southern applicants were succesafiil at the ballot. At the Supreme Court in the afternoon counsel intimated that the Ehrman bond warrants case had been settled, and the case was struck out. The basia of settlement is understood to be that defendants hand over all the body warrants to the Official Assignee, who pays the Mosgiel Company £500, equal to 10s in the £1 on the debt due them by Ehrman, and the £500 to be deducted from Ehrman's claim on the Daley estate. Christchurch, Last night. At a meeting of the building committee of the cathedral the financial reports submitted were considered, and a warrant issued for going on with the work of completion of the structure, with a view to the inauguration of the work in jubilee week. At Kaiapoi to-day a man who had supplied a prohibited person with liquor was fined £10 and costs. Accused had previously been convicted of a similar offence. At a meeting of the council of the League of New Zealand Wheelmen tonight, application was received from Hokitika to allow two riders to take part in a private match. It was decided to reply that the council was opposed to the holding of private matches, but had no objection to a local club putting up a prize for the two men to race for under its supervision. A lad named Percy Webb died suddenty to-day on the premises of Messrs VVilkins and Field, in whose office he was employed. Tne inquest showed he had fallen forward in a fit, with his head doubled under him, and had broken his neck. A number of persons were summoned to-day for not keeping rabbits down on their properties near Wellington. Two were fined £1, and one, whose area ia large, £20. At a public meeting to-night resolutions were passed strongly opposing the grau'eing of licenses in the King Country, and a committee was appointed to cooperate with other bodies in raising a protest. A special Oazttle to-night notifies that possession has been taken of the Midland Railway by the Government.