LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 201, 27 August 1888, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

GISBOKKE, AngUßt 26. Flora Baldwin, proprie'ms of the Independent, haa be j n committed for ttial ut the Supreme Court criminal sittings, bul in £25 being allowed. She is charged with libel.

Dunedin, August 24. The Secretary cf the Labor Exchange reports to the Board r[ Advioe that in the whole history of the Provincial district there never such a scarcity of work for all classes of workmen as during the last four months, and there is no appearance of any change for the better. Farmers, public bodies, and other employers of labor are doing with as few hands as possible. There are no works of a public or private nature going on in the city or suburbs excepting relief workß, which are now nearly fnllhanded. Many respectable families in the community are suffering in silence, being unwilling to parade their necessities before the public, because of the inability of the breadwinners to find employment. It was deoided to telegraph to the Government tho urgent necessity fdr putting the Middlemarch section of the Otago Central railway in hand at once, c

Napibb, August 26. The E. M. Court was occupied till after 10 o'olock last night in hearing the charge of perjury brought against F. D. Luokie. oommissioa agent, of Hastings, by B. Ware, his clerk in the Eenata will case, and subsequently in bankruptcy cases. Luokie Bwore that he was in financial difficulties through Ware embezzling over £400. the property of Mr Tanner, M.H.R., and that he had a letter from Ware admitting the embezzlement. Ware laid the present information. He admitted writing the letter, but said it was dona under pressure to save Luokie, and on promise that it should be destroyed after being shown to Mr Tanner, He also admitted taking certain moneys as wages, and having paid aorna to Luokie. He could not account for £346 outside the payments made to Luckie, but he denied having taken so muck as that, though he alene had the keys of ths cash box and safe, also the charge of the books, which ■wer* correctly kept. Ultimately the case was adjourned till Monday. After that is disposed of, Ware will be prosecuted for embezzlement on the information of Luckie. Wellington, August 26. Lieut. Andrews of the Devonshire regiment, and formerly of the Ist battalion of the r anterbury Volunteers, has sent to his old Volunteer Captain an interesting letter of

his success in India. He is now desirous o:

joining a cavalry regiment, but being over age the advice of the New Zealand Government is invoked. Mr Fergus, the Defence Minister, has been most anxious to assist Lieutenant Andrews, and the officials of the Defence Office have had the papers laid before his Excellency the Governor, and yesterday Mr Joyce was asked to attend at Government House, when bis Excellenoy who took conoiderable trouble some two years Ago in getting the Canterbury Volunteer into an Indian regiment, miuwtely detailed the course which must be taken, and stated that it would afford him great pleasure to be of any farther service to Lieut Andrews.