LATE WIRES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9939, 10 December 1900, Page 8

LATE WIRES.

, + [PES PRESS ASSOCTA-JON.] Wellington, This day. The Government have decided to send a rifle team to Sydney for the Commonwealth shooting competition. The team will be in charge of Lie_tenant-Colonel Oollir.s, but is being selected by Lieuten-ant-Colonel Sommerville. Kirk, of Petane, and three other Wellington district men will be among the competitors. Louis Edmonds was killed at Stirling, Eketahuna, through a log rolling on him. Mr John Cameron, one of Wellington's pioneers, died near Masterton on Saturday. News from Mangaweka says that a raid was made on two premises at Taihape by Constables Jackson and Bree on Saturday, and that a quantity of liquor, including two barrels of beer, was seized. The following cable has been received from the Agent-General, dated London, ' December Bth:—"The Whakatane's butter arrived in good condition. Price.-: Butter, 110s ; market firm. Cheese, 555; no immediate change expected. Hemp: Market dull; good fair Wellington on the spot £23 10s, fair current Manila on the spot £31." At a private conference of New Zealand iron founders and master engineers here last week io was decided to form an association. The retrial of Brother Wybertus on the charge of indecent assault on Wm. Grickert, as to which the jury failed to agree last week, was begun at the Supreme Court to-day. The Conciliation Board, in regard to the saddlers' dispute, decided that they could not recommend the three dissenting employers to sign the agreement drawn up by the union until the country employers are attached. For this purpose it is proposed to keep the matter open till the 16: h February. Nominations for the Northern Maori Electorate close on December 19th at Kororareka, aud the polling is fixed for , January 9 th. Gisborne, This day. Mr J. W. Cargill, manager of the ; Union Steamship Company here, has been appointed manager at Greymouth. The eight-roomed dwelling of Mr ! Jumes Erskene, baker, was destroyed by fire last night. Nothing was saved. The ] building was insured for £250 in the Commercial Union and the furniture and effects and bakers' requisites for £400 in the Law Union and Crown. Auckland, This day. Obituary—Mr G. S. Graham, aged 65. He w«s a prominent Mason. A young man named F. Dryland, while driving a dray loaded with furniture on Saturday afternoon, fell off, a wheel passing overhis abdomen. He died in half an hour. His parents reside in Auckland. Eltham, This day. Mr Hall-Jones visited Eltham on Saturday and received a number of deputations. In the evening he was entertained at a banquet. He said in connection with the main trunk line that it depended on the report of the engineer. On Sunday the Minister was driven out, and left for Hawera en roue for Wellington. Westport, This day. The Mokoia dredge(which was stranded in the big flood) has now been completely caulked, and raised four feet. She is now resting on skids, and is expected to be afloat in about ten days. The barque Helen Denny sailed for Sydney yesterday with a cargo of coal for the Admiralty. Christchurch, This day. In the case of Jakins v. the Union S.S. Company, a claim for damage to onions caused by the deviation of the passage of the Talune in connection with the disablement of the Perthshire, Mr Justice Martin gave judgment to-day for plaintiffs for £160 lis 4d and costs. Dunedin, This day. The Otago Trades and Labor Council have appointed Mr R. Slater, a member of the Arbitration Court, to represent them at the CommonweHJth inauguration. In bankruptcy, the Judge granted an order for discharge to Archibald Henry Crawford, merchant, subject to judgment being entered against him for £300. In a case in which a man named Napier, a bootmaker, had spent £60 in gambling and drink, an unconditional order was refused, although the creditors had passed a resolution in that direction. The Judge said the order would be made on the bankrupt consenting to have judgment entered against him for the £60 which ought to have gone to his creditors. In the case of Charles William Anderson, of London, merchant, an order for his discharge was granted, his Honor remarking that he always hud serious doubts whether the Court had jurisdiction to make bankrupt a man domiciled in London who was carrying on business here by an agent. An- , derson, it should be explained, was de- | clared bankrupt while Judge Williams ( was on leave in 1898. _ { Invercargill, This day. , A picnic party on Longwood range yes- £ terday d scovered a human skeleton. It t is supposed to be the remains of an old E man named Sims, who was missed in , November last year.