TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 23rd September.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 24 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 23rd September.

The consignment of 199 boxes of applos from San Francisco by tho mail steamer has caueod another oodlin moth scare The apples were placed on board the steamer, whioh left this evening for Sydney, where they oan be disposed of. MaßTerton, 23rd September. In the District Court, the aotion Official Aseigfuoo v. Hawkins (Kaiirarra) tvrs heard. Plaintiff claimed possession of a horse and cart and 200 sheep, or their value, alleged to have been wrongfully handed over by G. Bowles within three months of his bankruptcy. Tho jury gavo a verdict for defendant, on the ground that the disposal arose out of a legitimate tiansaction, dating book to November last. Christchurch, 23rd September. Mr. Justice Johnston and a jury of four were occupied all day with the civil oase of Turner v. Babot, an aotion brought by a ship's steward against the Marine Superintendent for the North Island of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, to recover .£2OO for losses alleged to have been caused by the non-fulfilment of arrangement to appoint plaintiff second steward of the Tainui. Tho trial resulted in a verdict for defendant. The plaintiff had twioe previously brought his aotion in the District Court, in different forms, and failed. Three charges preferred against a printer and two booksellers, for breaches of tho Printers and Newspapers Registration Aot in oonnention with the publication in Christohnroh of the Pall Mall Gazette disclosures, come on for hearing, before Mr. Beftham, KM., to-morrow. Dunedin, 23rd September. At the Land Board, it was resolved to 'reduce the rentals- of 18 rnns owned by the Crown and 19 by the School Commissioners. Nearly all tho runs had beon offered more than once at the former rentals. The reductions in Bflme cascß are fully one-half. A license to prospect for minerals over 3480 aores at Big Bay, West Coast, was granted. Thib D*y. At the half-yearly M.U. 1.0.0. F. district meeting, tho receipts were given for the Otago distriot as being .£3826, and the expenditure .£2748. The valne of the lodge funds Btands at .£33 707. The nnmber joining was stated to be smaller and the number leaving larger than in previous years, whioh vras attributed to the depressed times. * ' • Timaru, Thib Dat. Mathow Burner, the teetotal lecturer, las been very sncoes&ful here, over 4fiO cersous in Timaru and the surrounding districts have taken the pledge. .