GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 41, 16 August 1895, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

f PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 Christchurcs, 15th August. At a meeting of the Exhibition Committee to-day, a letter was read from tbe Governor's A.D.C. stating that His bxcellenoy wonld ba unablo to open the Exhibition on the 29th August, as he bad mado it a rule not to absent himself from Wellington during the session. Ib was resolved to request the Mayor to op*n the Exhibition. Gisbornk. 15tb August. At lho Supreme Conrt, in the civil case Kirk and others v. the Phoenix Insurance Company, the jury, after four hours' deliberation, found for the plaintiff s for the fnll amount claimed, .£SOO, amount of a policy on the stcck in a store at Karai, burned down last September. In tbe case Charles Johnson v. the Union Steam Ship Company, for .£3OO for damages sustained while working on the Moa, plaintiff was nonsuited. " (Our Own Correspondent*.) PAtMKRSTON North, This Dat. At a meeting of creditors in the estate of W. Hart, of fllanukau, it was decided by Wellington creditors present that proceedings in the estate should bb transferred from the Wanganui to tho Wellington Bankruptcy Court. Pahiatua. This Dat. Tho Defence Department hus agreed to the request that a constable be stationed at Mangataiuoka. He will take up his abode in a few days.