LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 24, Issue 1227, 1 June 1893, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(By Electric Telegraph.) (BY OUR SPECIALCORRESPONDENT.)

Dunedin, June 1. John and Murdoch M'Lean and Albert Young were committed for trial at Hawera yesterday on a charge of horsestealing. A six-legged sheep was to be sold at Addington Saleyards yesterday. In connection with certain correspondence which recently appeared in the Globe newspaper bearing upon the management of the Seaehff Lunatic Asylum, a summons has been issued at the instance of Dr Truby Kini? against a farm hand at Mataura, named Sydney Maxwell, to appear at the Police Court, on Friday next, to answer a charge of writing a defamatory libel. Mr James Mills, M.H.R., in addressing his constituents at Port Chalmers lasD evening, announced that he would probably not be a candidate at the next general election. At the Christchureh Supreme Court, Bridget Chalk was found guilty of performing an illegal operation, aud sentenced to four years' penal servitude. At thelnvorcurgill District Court, Brookes sued I>. M'Furhuic for £2OO damages for injiuies sustained by his sun from an attack by a monkey belonging to defendant, which got loose and worried the child. The child sustained a scalp wound, which had to be sewn, and was bitten about the arms, and was alleged to be still suffering from a nervous shock. The defend nt (til's present mayor) paid £5 into Court, and pleaded in mitigation that children had entered the yard and irritated the monkey till it broke its chain. The jury gave judgment for £2O, and costs (£lO 9s).

Sir R. Stout addressed a crowded meeting of liiuiiguh.ua electors at Cape Foulwind last night, and received a unanimous vote of confidence.