NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6116, 24 June 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

fUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. At the Supreme Court in banco to-day Mr. Chapman, solicitor, appeared in support of a rule in re C. E. Madden, solicitor, o£ Marton, which was argued at a sitting of the Court sometime ago. On that occasion a rule nisi was obtained by the Wellington Law Society, calling upon C. E. Madden to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt for having practised as a. solicitor at Marton without taking out the necessary certificates, and the matter was allowed to stand over till to-day to enable him to make an explanation. Mr. Gullyappeared on his behalf, and failing to show the required cause, Mr. Madden was adjudged guilty of contempt, and fined the full penalty of £50 and costs. KELSON, Thursday. The match between J. Bolton's Half-caste and B. Blower's Septimus, for £100 a-sidc, was run at Wakapnaka to-day. The distance was two miles, the weights the same as last meeting. A great deal of interest was taken in the event. Septimus won by half a head. Besides the stakes, £1000 changed hands on it. CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The Chamber of Commerce, to-day, decided to borrow a sum of £500 to erect a permanent building. There are four candidates for the Agricultural College scholarships. Mrs. Walter Hill, a well-known actress, is about to leave New Zealand, aid a benefit is being got up on her behalf. Mr. Towle was offered £300 to take to Dunedin his "Cloches de Corneville" Company, who have just played that opera for nine nights, for a week, and also £200 a-week to travel in the colony. Ploughing matches, which had been dis«continued in most districts, are this year being generally revived. A new Public Hall is to- be erected by a Company in Christchurch capable of hold* ing 1100 persons. On Monday, the beach was- searched carefully for bodies from the wreck of the Pakeha, without success. It is presumed they have been buried in the sand. DUNEDIN, Thursday. Mr. T. S. Weston, member for the Grey Valley, goes to Wellington by the s.a. Wanaka, on Sunday. George Walsh, aged three, an inmate of the Industrial School, has been poisoned by drinking carbolic acid. A number of unemployed waited on the Government Engineer to-day, seeking employment. They have represented that 200 men in Dunedin were willing to work, but were unable to get it. Mr. Harvey, Clerk of the Court at Naseby, has been appointed Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court here. The volunteers hero are dissatisfied with, the Garrison Hall being let for other than volunteer purposes, and talk of referring the matter to the Government. Mr. Henry Driver has bought the Cltrenestate, Waihou, from Mr. Clarke, of Victoria, paying £10 per acre. The total is £20,000. Anderson and Hughes were committed to trial for the robbery of jewellery at church. The New Zealand Agricultural Company during the past six months have sold over 12,000 acres at an average of over £10 per acre,, and 123 town sections at an average of. over £36 each. INVERCARGILL, Thursday. Mr. Waterston, a local shipowner, i making arrangements to run a fleet o£ sehooners from Melbourne to Irivercargill jetty, direct.