TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 67, 21 March 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

* I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunbdin. 20th March. At tho Police Court to-day, Mr. Crombie, the Deputy Property Tax Commissioner, prosecuted James Hume, John Waldie, and A. D. Rutherford, for neglecting to furnish statements of their property. Mr. Carow, K,M.. decided from the ovidence that the neglect was not wilful, and therefore oauit undor Bootion 116. He fined eaoh defendant £5 and 7s costs. The Caversham Borough Council are qneS' tioning the Benevolent Trustees regarding the caso of the Portuguese lepor, deceased and wish to know on whose authority thf payment of 153 por week for the man's keej for two years was made, and tho tota amount paid, tho Council having never beet coußultod in the matter. Auckland. 20th March. The annunl balance-sheet of tho Auckland Rifle Association shows a small sum tc orodit. It was rosolvod at, aspooial mooting of (he Civil Servants' Supply Association to-daj to wind up the company. At a largely attended meeting of the Ohinemuri agricultural leaseholders a petition tc tho Government was drawn up praying thai the sottlers might bo granted the freehold); of their sections, larga Bums having been paid in rent. An antimony mine is now continually worked at the G^eat Barrier, a block of land of about 840 acres having been purchased bj Mr. F. W. Bucklstnd and others. A protraoted meeting of the creditors oi D. P. Evan3. auotionoer, was held to-day, when tho debtor was examined by several creditors. The meeting was then adjourned to enable Evans to furnish a statement of hie income and expenditure Binca June, 1888.