GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 110, 10 May 1895, Page 2

GENERAL TELE GRAMS

I PRESS ASSOCIATION. I ■ Chri.-tchukch. 9th Nay. The owners of the Asliloy Bank cpiate have accepted the offer of tho Government Land Purchase Board for the purchase of their property of 1158 aorrs. Two exoellent i»mples of wheat grown at Cheviot were shown in town to-day. They ate of the pearl and Tuscan varieties, and represent; the produce of 100 sores cultivated by Stevenson Brothers ; and they were grown after only ploughing, and averaged 39 bushels to the aore. This is considered by experts a splondid result. An old resident, James R. Selfe, who is partially paralysed, was to-day committed for trial on a oharge of wounding & man named Partridge by biting off a piece of his nosa. The sub-committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association dealing with the footrot question considers it undesirable to request the Government to specially legislate for this disease. This Dat. In the Magistrate's Court, John Nixon, a prohibited person, was fined .£lO, with the option of three months' imprisonment, for buying a glass of beer. The landlord of the hotel where the beer was procured, was oharged with selling the same, but the oase was dismissed on the ground of want of identification. Florence Irene Komplarman, charged with stonling a far boa, valued at £7, from the steamer Takafrana, was remanded to appear in Wellington on Wednesday. At the inquest on tho fire by which a store was burned down at Sefton last week, the jury returned a vsrdiot that the place was wilfully set on fire by some person unknown. Auckland, 9th May. A man named Charles Barley baa been committed for trial on a charge heard at Paeroa of attempting to dissuade Watson, an,-employ<, from giving evidenoe in a certain assault case by threatening to dismiss him and three others if they appeared as witnesses. This Dat. The contingent of unemployed has arrived at Te Whaiti, and is in camp 12 miles, to the Uriwera side of Galatea. The Pataheuheu people have promised to supply 60 natives to assist in laying off the road. Mr. A. H. Waddle, late diamond drill expert at the Grand Jnnotion Mine, Waihi, has discovered a well-defined reef in the Uriwera Country, between Knatoki and Galatea, in good sandstone country. Specimons have been Bent to the Government for assay. The City Council last night received a letter asking for an extension of, the Tramway Company's lease. A company would probably take over the lines and establish electric traotion and eleotrio lighting, and extend tbe tram system to Paraell and Onehunga. The oost of electric traotion alone would be .£90.000. By the arrival of the Taupo from Fiji, news cornea that a report is current at Pnva that a company, with "a capital of .£50,000, has been formed at Sydney for extracting oil from copra at Vuna Point. Dunrdin, 9th May. At a meeting of the Harbour Board to-day, the Acting-Chairman and the Chairman of the Finance Committee reported that the Bale of £14,000 of the Board's 5 per cent, consolidated debentures had been effected locally in two linep, at a price which yielded a margin over * the London prices on the Stock jjxohange, and a price which must prove a profitable investment to the purchasers. The low price to which the bonds had fallen in London was qnite inexplicable, and_ it was gratifying to find that local oapitalißtß were turning their attention to a olass of securities whioh had been too long negleoted. The charges of breaches of the Beer Duty Aot against C. F. Greenslade (of Speight and Co.) and Allan Davis, have been dis. missed. Inveecaeoill, 9th May. At Winton to-day, Minnie Dean, wite of Charles Dean, was arrested on a charge of having on or about the 3rd inst. murdered an infant named Eva Hornaby.