NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 93, 13 August 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL ITEMS. Auckland, August 12. Mrs Wa.lis, of Papapura, has made a sworn statement before the official assignee in bankruptcy. In 1889 her father presented her with 69 shares in the Bank of New Zealand which were then valued at £1156. The bank has since made a demand upon her for calls amounting to £226185, but as she had no means wherewith to meet the demand she was compelled to file. Her assets were £5 15s 6d. Mr M'Kerrow, chief officer of the Lands for Settlement Department, will visit Waikato shortly to inspect the properties of the Estates Company and also the Monawate estate near Cambridge, which is under offer to the Government, in order to report as to their suitability for close settlement. A number of valueless bank notes which have been in circulation in Melbourne and some of the other large cities for some time, according to the

papers, appear to have reached Auckland. In appearance they are exactly similar to other bank notes, but are not signed or dated. At the Police Court to-day a young man, a recent arrival, was charged with having attempted to pass one at the City Hotel, and remanded. The note was for £5 and in the name of the Provincial and Suburban Bank, Limited, Melbourne. It is apparently not a counterfeit, but a genuine note of that bank,' and any tradesman in a hurry would be liable to accept it as good. Haweea, August 12. A lad named Boyle, who was injured by a fall of gravel yesterday morning, died yesterday afternoon. Wanganui, August 12. Two sudden deaths of elderly men occurred last night. One, an old resident of Wanganui, James Edward Wright, aged 70, complained of cold on Sunday and went to bed. Thomas Tucker, lately arrived from Nelson, an old Crimean veteran, aged 64, fell ill last night and was found dead in bed this morning. Wellington, August 12. A Gazette has been issued containing the alterations in the North Island electoral boundaries. CIIHISTCHUBCH, August 12. The Criminal sittings of the Supreme Court open on Monday next. The calendar includes 18 charges, all of an ordinary character. Timaeu, August 12. Andrew M'Eae, a single man, farm laborer, accompanied by a man named M'Ponald, went shooting on a Otaio river bed. In crossing a fence M'Donald's gun went off and shot M'Eae in the back. The injured man was put on the express train for Timam, but died before reaching town. Dunedin, August 12. The Government has purchased Mr Thompson's estate near Allanton for settlement purposes. It will be subdivided into five and ten-acre blocks.