NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Grey River Argus, Volume LVII, Issue 10264, 21 April 1899, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

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Invercargii/l, April 20.

A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held this afternoon to investigate the finances. They reported that there was a shortage of between L 3500 and L4OOO in the accounts of the secretary, J E Fox, had been discovered. The audit is not yet complete. The Board decided to institute criminal proceedings. James E Fox, secretary and treasurer to the Bluff harbor bonrd, wae arrested to-night on a charge of misappropriating the board's money, and will be brought before the Court to-morros<r. The actual sum involved has not transpired, but it is said to be several hundred pounds. The board holds a fidelity guarantee of LSOO. Auckland, April 20. The body of Miss Minnie Andrews, the only daughter of A Andrews, storekeeper, of Hokianga. missing since last Thursday, was found to-day in a lonely gully at the North Shore leading from the Calliope dock towards Sunnyside. A boy found it and informed the police. It was much decomposed and eaten by rats. The girl had said life was not worth living and had only returned from Dunedin. Dr Knight and Mrs Knight gave a harbor oxcursion to the southern delegates of the National Council of Women and their friends. Dunedin, April 20. At the inquest touching the death of John W M'lntosh, in the Allandale coal mine at Shagpoint, the evidence was taken of an expert appointed by the coroner's jury, the underground manager in the mine and the luspector of Mines, after which the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, no blame being attached to anyone. Wellington, April 20. Solomon Lewis was before the Court to-day and explained the non-delivery of tne notice of appeal was an oversight in his solic' tor's office. No objection being offered the case was reheard to enable him to go on with the appeal. In the iibel siefcion Higgins v the Post, Plaintiff did not give evidence and the Judge said according to the dictionary defination of the meaning, " loafer was a man who had been twice convicted of loitering," and he could noc very well complain of the term. The jury after five minutes retirement gave a verdict for defendants with costs. The case of Trommer v U S S Coy, claiming LIOOO damages for an accident at the Wellington Wharf when the Tarawera was being berthed some time ago is partly heard and will be resumed to-morrow. The Judges to-day made some caustic remarks on the inadequate court accommodation in Wellington.