TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 180, 25 November 1896, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, This day. Soloman, alias Saul, pleaded guilty to four charges of overselling mining shares. His counsel undertook to return the money so obtained. Accused was admitted to probation for 12 months. Feilding, This day. At the inquest on Lacey Fowler a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. Ciiristchurch, This day. The weather is chill and threatening. The representatives of the New Zealand cricket team from other parts of the colony arrived this morning and practise at Lancaster Park this afternoon for the match which commences at noon to-morrow. The Australians arrive by express to-night. The Mayoral election for the city is proceeding quietly, but supporters of both candidates, Messrs W. W. Cooper and J. T. Smith are working hard. The general opinion is that Mr Cooper will be returned by a good majority. At the open-air Prohibition meeting last night the speakers were subjected to interruption and pelted with eggs, stones, and rubbish. Wellington, This day. The Mayoralty election is proceeding quietly, but there has been a steady stream of voters all day. Gishorxe, This day. At an inquest held at Matawera into a fire at the residence of Charles Macfarlane in August last, the jury returned a verdict that the house was burned down by some persons unknown, and that there was not the value of property in the house at tho time of the fire as applied by Mac-far-lane to the Insurance company. The police subsequently arrested Macfarlane and charged him with arson and making a false declaration. He was remanded for a week. John Sheen, licensee of the Taranganui Hotel, formerly a well-known commercial traveller, fell from the balcony whilst extinguishing the hotel lamp this morning, and sustained a compound fracture of the log, which had to be amputated. He is in a critical condition. Arrived —11.M.5. Lizard.