THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 142, 16 June 1886, Page 2

THIS DA Y'S TELEGRAMS.

Christchurcii. Tin's morning Mr Beetham, R.M., granted the application to withdraw the charge of wifo desertion against Messenger, who was fetched from Melbourne recently. He held that Mrs Messenger could not give evidence against her husband. The difficulty between Suckling Bros., boot manufacturers, and their mon, who struck some week-3 ago, is now virtually settled. Most of tho strikers have obtained work elsewhere, and Mr-ears Suckling have got tuflicient men to carry on. Auckland. Arrived this morning — Waihora from Sydney. Saloon pisseugcrs, Mr and Mrs Wood, Mr aud. Mrs Baiubridge, Mr iiud Mrs Mif-B Button, Misses Bell, Bagott, Loivs (2), Alessrs Grace, BirJ, Bright, Moon, Rickncy, Waters, Hunter, Jackson, Morrow, Ilungeri'ord, Griffith?, Hean, and Cameron. For Napier : Mr and Mrs Henderson, aud Mr Lang. For Wellington : Mr and Mrs Richardson, Messrs Cumberland, Johnston, und two steerage. For Dunedin : Messrs Kennody, Mursro, Hazard, and Chivppell, ansl two s'eerage passengers. The Petrel enso was concluded to-day. The CapLniu and o'-here accusoJ will probably bci arrested and sen!, to America for trial. iNVERCAIiGILI,, A krgc meeting of settlers at Thornbury passed resoluiions emphatically protesting against tho importation of stoats and we.ißels as a moans of suppressing the rabbi', peet. A man n;imed John Crilly was found dead close to Kiugßton railway hridgo, nci\r Winton. His skull wns fractured, and tho hone he had been tiding was so badly injure that it had to be shot. The engine driver on the late train noticed nothing unusual, and il ig supposed that the deceased's horse shied and threw him on the culvert, which it afterwards tried to cross.