TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 129, 15 October 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦ ftJNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, 14th October. A man named William Hapson, who had obtained quarters from several hotel-keepers by representing himself as a traveller for a wholesale firm, was sentenced to two months. Wherever he stayed, goods had disappeared. William Stables, tho man who was landed from the Sierra Colonna, suffering from hernia, died in the Hospital to-day. The police in the Dunedin district have subscribed and presented a purse of sovereigns to Inspector Weldon, who goes Home on leave of absence. Auckland, 14th October. A man named George P. Waller was arrested on board the Rotomahana, prior to her departure for tho South, charged with embezzling £18 of money belonging to the Episcopalian Church. The barqiie Rapido, wrecked at Cambridge Gulf, was insured for £000 in the Union office. This was re-insuved for .£2OO in the New Zealand, and 4200 in the Thames and Mersey offices. In tho case of slander, in which James Hay was charged with slandering William Green, on English solicitor, the Judge inflicted the nominal penalty of £1 and costs.