LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 126, 26 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(ONITSD PREBS ASSOCIATION.] Christchtjrch, 25th November. Charters was committed for trial to-day on a trial of forging a bill of exchange for JGI47 10s. Counsel applied for bail, saying several substantial securities could be obtained. Ihe Magistrate, though averse to granting i*-, consented to reserve kis final decision on the point till Monday. This Day. The Premier left this morning for Timaru, whence he proceeds on Monday to Oatnaru and Donedin. Dunedin, 25th November. At a meeting to-day it was decided to form a company for making jam and preserving fruit. Shares in the company are limited to 15 at £ 100 each. Thirteen were taken up As the applicants for the remainder were non- consumers, it wa3 agreed they should n»t be allotted to them. A suitable modern plant from a neighbouring colony ha 3 been offered to the colony. This Day. At the City Court, a charge agaiiißt Alfred Palmer of stabbing the boatswain of the Eio Grande was dismisssed, the Bench being of opinion that the injury was not wilfully inflicted. Gisborne, 25th November. On Wednesday Mr. M'Kay, editor of the Herald, was publicly horsewhipped in Glad-stone-road by Mr. John Gannon, brother of Mr. M. J. Gannon, a candidate for East Coast, for publishing a letter containing alleged libellous reflections on his family canneotions. Gannon was charged with the assault this morning, and the case was dismissed bj the Bench without remark. Auckland, 25th November. Captain Morris, master of the ill-fated barque Glimpse, was a passenger by the Hero. It is stated that the liability of the Government for cattle killed on unfenced sections of railway will be tested shortly in the law courts. The Wesleyan District meeting was opened to-day, the Keys. Joseph Lon? (Primitive Methodist), Hodgson, and Guy (Free Methodist), being present by invitation In the Waikato beer duty stamp cases, W. Camming (brewer) was fined ,£l2O in a'l; ?ield (publican), 203; Campbell (pnblican), Is, the casks being stamped when they left Brown and Campbell's brewery. Three prisoners made an attempt to escape from the Mount Eden Gaol, but were captured before they got clear of the premisea. This Dat. A man named Bartlett has been drowned in Fitzroy Harbour, Great Barrier. On Thursday, a lunatic being conveyed from Mercury Bay to the Auckland Lunatic ABylum, jumped overboard and wa3 drowned.

Patea, This Dat. i An agitation is afloat here for the purpose 1 of opening the back country throngh the i Whenuakara, Momohaka, and Kaitangi- ] whenua blocks by roads. i — 1