GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1904, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[B? TELEGRAPH — rRBSS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, This Day. At the Magistrate's Court- Thomas Henry Gibson, an employee of the olothing luctory, was charged with stealing sundry articles of the value of £4, and James Percy Holroyd with receiving certain articles from Gibson, knowing the same to have been dishonestly obtained. The accused were remanded for a week. The police opposed the application for bail, but the Magistrate granted the application, making bail £200 in each case. INVERCARGILL,, This Day. , The Supreme Court Sittings opened to-day before- Mr. Justice Denniston, .who congratulated- the district on the lightness of the calendar, there being no serious cases. The Court is engaged hearing a charge of perjury against Farquliar M'Kenzie in connection with a mining WESTPORT," This Day. The erection of the Carnegie Free Public Library in W-estport is completed. It is a handsome brick building. No trace has been found of the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith, who is reported missing. OAMARU, This Day. There was a large attendance at tyie sale of Station Peak and Hurstlea proCerties. Bidding was slow for both locks. The latter property was passed in without a bid. Of the twenty lots of the Station Peak property six were sold at upsets varying from 32s 6d to £12, only one eliciting competition. Of the 40,000 acres offered 9000 were sold.

A few days ago the Timaru Herald published a list of the votes put on the Estimates for South Canterbury — a list of 26 items totalling about £6000,. The Greymouth Star publishes the list of the votes for the counties of Grey -and Westland. They number 148, and amount to £48,000. About 50 bridges, between 70 and 80 pieces of road, and 14 or 15 public buildings are mentioned on the list A small swing bridge over the Mangatera Stream, Dannevirke. built to sustain the weight of five people, collapsed on Sunday afternoon, and precipitated about thirty people into the water below. The crowd on the bridge were listening to the music of the baud, when the concert was brought to an abrupt ending. Some women suffered through shock, and had to be conveyed home, but there was no serious accident j.