LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Dunedin, 18th August. At the City Police Court, Thomas Webster was committed for t ial for threatening to shoot Charles Martin with a loaded revolver. This Day. The half-yearly report of the Standard Insurance Company snows that after providing for losses there remains a balance of which the directors propose to carry forward. They hope to be able to resume paying dividends noxt half-year. The New Zealand Drug Company have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. Mr. Prince, with a string of horses, left for Melbourne to day. Christchurch, This Day. At a meeting of the Benevolent Association yesterday, the receipt of a subsidy from the Government amounting to .£BSO was announced. It was agreed to dispense with the soup kitchen in future, and the operations of the association are to be clearly defined at the adjourned meeting next week. Mr. A. T. Dunning, of Dunedin, is said to be negotiating for the purchase of the Theatre Royal and the adjoining hotel. A trotting match of 3 miles took place yesterday between Porter's Beach Boy and M'Carthy's chestnut mare, tho former giving 100 yards' start. The race was won by the latter. Auckland, 18th August. Several gentlemen connected with a company formed in Melbourne to work tho White Island sulphur deposits are now inspecting the Island for the benefit of shareholders. A man named William White is missing at Tairna, in the bush, and the police and settlers are searching for him. At a special meeting of the Presbytery, charges ot seduction were preferred against T. W. Dunn, a studpnt. now of Pukekohe, and formerly ot M;. David's, Auckland. Tho investigation of the case was held with closed doors. After hearing the evidence, the Presbytery found that there was no evidence to support the two charges, and admitted that no stigma rested on the character of the defendant, and he had their complete sympathy. Dunn intends to take legal proceedings over the published statement made recently concerning tha scandal. Adam Moore, aged 63, sued his three sons to support him. It transpired in evidence that they were all born prior to his marriage. The magistrate decided tho plaintiff had no right, as the law did not recognise illegitimate children. Kbw Plymouth, 18th Augu3t. John Thomas Shaw, one of the first settlera who came to New Plymouth, died yesterday at the age of 91 years. The harbour works at Motaroa are proceeding rapidly. A. concrete block, weighing 188 tons, containing 112 cubic yards, was commenced yesterday morning and finished this afternoon GISBORNE, 13th AugUßt. Mr. Benies and some directors and shareholders in the Southern Cross Oil Company have gone to verify the reports regarding the richness of tho paraffin finds. Oil shares here are up 200 par cent., and hard to get. Thames, 18th August. There is a great deal of litigation here in mining circles just now. The Warden has caused 1000 plaints to be laid against original peggers-out of claims not worked by them, so as to decide the question of titles. Workmen are still employed in all directions clearing away the dSbris czused by the recent flood. At Waitekauri vigorous operations in goldmines ara going on with encouraging results. At Waihi prospects are brightening. Scarlet tever has entirely disappeared from the Thames district. This Day. The extraordinary election for a County Councilor to fill the vacancy caused by the ousting of Grenville, for having voted in hia own interest, took place yesterday, when Bull, a battery owner, defeated ex-Oounoillor Grenville by a majority of 20.