LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 118, 17 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.") Nbw Pltsiotith, 16th November. The Count/ Connoil has deoidcd to abolish toll-gates at the end of the year. Auckland, 17th November. Thirty-two Anokland residents and firms, have eubsoribe d for 70,000 shares of £ I each in the Thames Valley and Kotorua .Railway project. This Dat. Over 700 name 3 have been added to the city and suburban electoral rolls daring the past few week?. The house of the ]£cv. Air. "Williams was burglariously entered yesterday, aud J823 in money, besides jiwellery and silver, Btolen. CHBisrcHORCH, This I>at. A case was heard yesterday in which a man sued another for .£42, the purchase* money paid for two sections of land and intere3t on same, the land never having been handed over. Plaintiff, who paid the pur-chase-money in instalments, had never troubled himself muoh about getting th» land transferred to him, and the defendant executed a transfer of the two Bectiona to the Church of England, being under the impression that they were other sections which had been sold. He then became bankrupt, but offered plaintiff two* different sections in lieji of the. ones im que*.

lion. This offer was refused. It was contended that tho bankruptcy covered the case, but tho Magistrate would not allow this at all, and gave judgment for the actual Ijurchase-mouey without interest. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, Lottie Wilmot, for having used abusive language to Mr. G. W. Moon, secretary of the Papanui Town Hall Company, waß fined one shilling, and for a*Baulting him with a stick was fined £5. She was also ordered to pay costß in both cases, amounting to £5 ¦ 10s. Steps ar£ being taken by the Friecdly Societies in Christchnrch to establish a cooperative dispensary.