LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 27, Issue 1376, 14 March 1896, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

o (By Electric TELEnRAPir.) BY CUE SPECIAL CORRESI 0 .'OKNT DrNEnrs*, M iroh 13. CASK OF POISONING. Four pptvons in N"l.snn worn poisoned through eating tinned sardines, but all of tliem are now out of danger. r.TIAIX THIEVING The Timaru Herald say? the grain thief is now busy in South Canterbury. THE AGENT-GENERAL'S FAMILY. Mrs W. P. Reeves and family pro ceed to England by the Rimutaka. FIRE BRIGADE DEMONSTRATION. J. Salmon, a member of the Dunedin City Fire .Brigade team, at Christchurch, was attacked by pleurisy and returned to his home last evening. SPURIOUS MONEY. A number of spurious half crowns ire said to be in circulation in Wellington at present. A SALUTARY LESSON. John Brodie and Thomas Farrell, the two men who obtain >d liquor on a recent Sunday by representing to the licensee of the Terminus Hotel that they were travellers, were hauled before the S.M. yesterday, and lined £3 and costs. SERIOUS CHARGE. The afternoon was occupiel in hearing a charge against Andrew SJ Wedderspoon, up till lately a traveller in the employ of Arthur Briscoe and Co., of stealing a cheque for .£]o. belonging to that firm, on December 20th, 1895. The case was not finished last night, but will probably be concluded this afternoon. I ARDGOWAN ESTATE.

The subdivision of Ardgowan Estate is almost completed, .and a ballot for sections will probably take place in May, and possession will be given on June Ist. SUICIDE INQUIRY. District Judge Ward' has been appointed by Government to conduct in inquiry into the circumstances connected with the suicide of Macalister' at Ashburn Hall. POLITICAL. The. Hon W. 0. Walker is gazetted Minister fur Immisrarion. the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, Hon. T. Thompson, Minister for Justice, and Minister for Industries and Cnnmerce, and the Hon. J. Carroll, Commissioner of Stamp Duties. The Premier has been ask'd to speak at Nelson on his way back from the Coast, and if he. agrees to do so will reply there to Captain Russell's recent a Idress.

In their comments upon tlie reconstruction of the Ministry, it has been taken for granted by a number of papers that Mr Carroll's admission to the Cabinet carried with it full pay and that both vacancies have therefore been tilled up. This, however, is not the case, as though receiving full Cabinet rank, In is still paid as a Native member of the Executive only. The Hon. W. Jenning, M.L.C, was rather seriously injured yeserday by a fall from a horse. BURGLARIES. The post office at llotorua was entered by burglars, and £230 was stolen from the safe; Messrs Ehrenfriend Bros.' premises at Auckland were entered by burglars and 2500 cigars stolen, also a quantity of champagne. During the past two years over 500 robberies of tobacco and cigars hive occurred, in connection with which no arrest has been made. NOTICIC TO SIKARF.MS. The following telegram has been received by Inspector Pardv from the Secretary of the Commissioner of Police at "Wellington : -•" Inspector general of police at Sydney wires that advertisement in Otago papers, sinned William Bruce, Box 1445, G.P.0., Sydney, ofiering to secure engagements for shearers in New South "Wales is a fraud. Please notify newspapers." MR ZltiAX. An Auckland telegram states that Ziman, who was in the colony a few months ago and arranged for the purchase of several preperties at lleefton, is due in New Zealand shortly. Mr Zimon has engaged the services of an American engineer who will superintend operations in the mines he has acquired at Beefton ; also an expert analyst, and also an assayer, whose business will be chieily the treatment of refractory ores. LokdoS", March 11; OPKNIVG MUSKUMS OS SUNDAYS.

The House of Commons, by 178 to 93 carried a resolution in favour of opening the museums and art galleries in London on Sundays. r>n jameson's trial. Dr Jameson at his trial rear! it letter he had received by a trooper from the* Reform Committee. He stated that his sole object was to resciie women and children, and that he had no intention of molesting the Boers. OIKTS KHOM .AFOIIANtSTAN. The Ameer of Afghanistan is sending the Royal Family {.resents of the value of £120,000, in recognition of the kindness shown to his son Nasuuddah Khan during his recent visit to England. wool, SAT.KS Wool is extremely linn and merino* are hardening. llrsEUiv, March 14. (R.-CMvod at. 7.1(1 p.m.) THE WKUHEIISI'OON CARE. The charge agiinst A. S. Wudderspion was ■:<> 'tinned to-day. but llic two justices wlm pre«i<lcd were unable to agree, so a fresh charge will he laid, uuri the case tried over again. TAILOUESSBS 1 t'NION. It is stated that Miss Harriet Morrison ims been relieved of her dntiei as secretary ] of the Duncdin Tuiloressus' Union on account of certain irregularities in her books, which have lieen placed in Wio hands of auditor.". Curious rumours are current with regard to the matter, but it is inadvisable, pcrhopa, to publish them. THE HiFI-fc -MKKTISC The Federal Rifle meeting was commenced at Oumaru to-day, the weather being splendid. There are '2!i-i entries, and competitors aro well pleased with the range. The town is full of visitors. ACCIDENTAL liEATIt. Mr R. IT. Wane, a visitor from England, who was ataying with relatives at New Plymouth, was choked by a plum stone. i:ENKItAI_ According to the Star, a fracas which took place in one of I he lending hotels in the city this week is likely to lead to police court iir..c<'fdingn. A well-known inusicun is coucrnvd. In the previously heard ca*e of .John Sidey v. JO wen Cumcrnn, of .-I.iin') i'.'ift .'!• Id, for pirl cost of dividing

fit-ice, His Worship g.ivo judgment fir tie am .niit cluimeil, and coats. Execution Whs st.it I'd fur a wvi'k pending consideration aS t > whether defendant should appeal. Sydney, M Mi \x THE NEWCASTLE CO AI, THAI E.

A 'l(>|iui)iiioii, rejneseiitini; Socialistic and J) :»iouralic Associations presented the I'ra'ii'er with resolutions ptsrl *' a recnt meeting in favour of interference in connec* tion wit i th-j diitieuliy in the Newcastle cial trade and State ownership <>f mine?. .Wr R-id sitid that a Governinent inonoply nndf.r most favourable circuni.-tanees could only control local consumption. As a subject of pmcMcal politics he would Hot take the

matter up because it would only bd waste of time. The.idja was Utopian and not pracncable. We might in future get a better ■>tate of society and Government when such questions might bo considered;