TELEGRAMS.
UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, lGth September. Mr. A. Porter has received a letter from Mr. T. Melville, London, respecting the prospect of floating several mines on the London market. A number of capitalists have subscribed some hundreds to test the Mammoth claim at Karangahake, and if they are satisfied with tho results they will float a company. Mr. Melville is sanguine of disposing of the Crown mines. A number of suggestions for provision against fire in public building, theatres, &0., drawn up by t^o Town Clerk, came before the City Council last nighjt, and'wor? referred to the By-law's Committee. ' 1 A young man named B. S. Wilson was charged to-day at the Police Court with utteriDg obeques bearing the forged signatures of Bishop Stuart,' of Waipu, and the ! Bey. J. S. Hill for .£2O arid 47 respectively. He was opmmitted for trial on both charges. 1?Hi8 Day. A syndicate has engaged an experienced I miner to go u> Fij| to prospeot for goloT and i other minerals. Dtjnbdin, This Day. Peter Will iatnson was charged with forging a Bank of New Zealand note and uttering the same. The eyidenco Browed that the note had been photographed, and prisoner said—" There is np übo \n going further ; I am the guilty perspn, and don't want to put you to further trp^blo. 1 ' The aoousod was committed for trial. The charge of uttering agafpßJ; accused's fathep was dismissed-
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 2
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237TELEGRAMS. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 2
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