LATEST TELEGRAMS [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1902, Page 6

LATEST TELEGRAMS [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Tho Piohidont of the executive of the Torrey - Alexander mission presented Dr. Torrey this morning prior to his dfpnrture with a purse ot sovereigns, which is to be devoted to the Chicago Bible Institute. Mr. Alexander was also pie°cnled with a purse of sovereigns, l'.oth received a hearty farewell on their departure by express for Dunedin. Owing to the increased price nf slock and the scarcity of sheep, the butchers in this city have decided to increase the price of mutton by one halfpenny per pound, and of beef by one penny per pound. DUNEDIN, This Day. A case of sly giujj-selling against the proprietor of the Cecil Cafe of selling potter together with oysters to constables dressed in khuki was dismissed, the evidence tending to show that the liquor might have been <-ent for, which was the line of defence adopted. A .second case is proceeding. HAWKRA, This Day. In the Magistrate** Court ye^teiday, Horace Lancelot Parker, aged 17, a probationer in the Bank of "Yew South' Wales, wiis eommitled for trial on a charge of sicnling moneys and wcniiiies sent by a bank client by umesiMered letter. Sydney Pinker, a ynunijer brother of Hon.cs, pleaded Guilty to a charge of stealing pail of the money from his brother, and was remanded for a repoit. by the Piobition. Officer. A youth named Hill w<is charged with the theft of £5, part of Ihe money stolen by Sydney Parker, but the case was dismissed, thp Bench being of opinion that there was no ciiminal intent.