LATEST TELEGRAMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN 20th July.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN 20th July.

The Mayer has received a letter from the Board of Health at Melbourne, stating that some Bpurious tea has recently been landed there by the steamer Ocean, from China, and and had been forwarded to Dunedin. The Collector of Customs is trying to trace where it haa gone. The case of Mercer and wife y. The Queen concluded to-day in a verdict of .£750 damages for injuries sustained by plaintiffs being capsized out of a buggy through a telegraph wire being left across the road by workmen engaged in repairing it. GIBBOBNB, 20th July. The Poverty Bay Herald had a long leading article on Monday, arguing that the scheme on which the East Coast hind and special settlement proposal is based is altogether impracticable. Auckland, 20th July. A man named Thomas Gibbons had his hand smashed in working a railway crane. Harry Whitaker Duval, from Wellington, has been remanded on a charge of false protonoes till tho 28th. This Day. £ v the civil sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday Jane Crawford, a servant, sued Charles E. Johnson, her employer, for defamation of character, the damages being laid at J3IOO. The jury found the defamatory statement was false, but had not been uttered maliciously. A verdict was entered for the defendant. The new North Shore Ferry Company haa awarded a prize of i 320 to Mr. Bailey, of the North Shore, for the best design of a ferry steamer built on the American principle. The speed is to be 11 knots per hour, and the trip to the North Shore will be performed in six minutes. Timabu, 20fch July. The express train from the north was five hours late arriving here to-day, owing to floods. Rain is still falling heavily here, but no serious damage is reported. A heavy sea is running in, but all the vessels are riding safely. A company is beingf formed to establish a paper manufactory at Temnka. Christctturch, 20th Jnly. It continued raining all last night and today, and the consequence is that tho country ia flooded north and south. The railway line at several points is two or three feet under water. This is the ca-e south of Ashburton, in the Ellesinero district, and on the Oxford branch line, and trains are delayed a good deal in oonsequence.