NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6824, 1 October 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

« WANGANUI, Saturday. J. R, SoMMKRViIiE was charged to-day with failing to take reasonable precautions to clean a flock of infected sheep after receiving notice from the Inspector to do so. Defendant was fined 3d each on. 120 eheep Mid costs.

WELLINGTON, Saturday.

The City Council has decided to appoint i a solicitor as -Town Clerk aS a salary of ' £600. A committee was formed to inquire 1 into the working of the Engineer's Depart- 1 ment. j In the Supreme Courtto-day judgment was ' given in the case of Johnston r. Simeon, a, ' dispute about native reserves leases, which ' has bean pending over for years. Judgment ' wss given for thu plaintiff on ail the issues. ; The following additional bonuses on colouial industrie-i are offered by Govern- ' ment:—£soo for the production of ma- ' permanently established in New ' Zealand of the first 10,000 gallons of linseed / < oil of good marketable quality from linsee'l grown,in the colony ; £500 for the first 25 tons butter, or 50 tons of cheese (produced in one factory), which shall be exported from New ZeaUnd, and sold at sucli price in'the foivign market as shall show articles of fair quality; £300 for the firs!. 50 tons of starch manufactured in the colony, which shall be shipped to the English market, and for which a satisfactory certificate shall be given that the starch is of good quality ; £500 for the production of the first 50 tons of printing paper made by machinery permanently established and working in the colony, the bonus to be paid on the first hona fide sale of paper. The conditions are that intimation of intention to claim the bonus must be made before 31st December, 1883, and' the claim must be made before 30th June; 1884. GREYMOUTH, Sunday. Mr. Redmond lectured to a large audience on Saturday evening, on "The Personal Recollections of Mr. Forster's Coercion Act." He shortly joins his brother in Australia. CHRISTCBURCH, Saturday. Yesterday Detective Neal arrested a passenger by the steamer Doric for haviug in his possession a quantity of smuggled jewellery. The criminal sittings open on Monday. The calendar is very short, comprising 11 charges again3t 6 prisoners. 5 charges of forging against Robert Hiller and a charge of arson against Maria and Fanny Simatti are most important. Sunday, The chess match, Wellington v. Christchurch, was continued last night, wh«n a second Christchurch man, Mr. Scott, resigned. The match is to ba concluded next Saturday. TIMART7, Sunday. Tho annual horse parade of the Agricultural aud Pastoral Associatioa yesterday showed a great falling off; there being barely half the number entered that there was last year. The quality of horses was, however, good. Captain Smith (leaderof the Salvationists), and Graham (of the Skeleton Army), were arrested this (Sunday) afternoon, for committing a breach of the peace in Market Square. The Customs' revenue for September amounted to £1753 8s sd. For tho corresponding mouth of last year it was £2537 15s 2d. The total for the September quarter was £5369 15s 6d, or £560 less thau the thiid quarter of ISB2. Vital statistics for September-.—Births, 34; marriages, 4 ; deaths, 17. Of the deaths five are those of young children from whooping cough, and three others from other lung diseases, DUNEDiN, Saturday. The Customs revenue for the September quarter is £101,743 against £119,077 for the corresponding period of last year. Five inches of snow fell at Naseby yesterday." Sunday. Warder Flannery, having applied for an enquiry into the cause of his dismissal, has been informsd that he has been dismissed without compensation. Out of forty trout transferred from Lake Wakatipu to a creek only five remain. The rest are eupposed to have been taken by poaching. About noon on Saturday an altercation took place which has caused some excitement. Mr. Ashcroft, journalist, when coming out of the Post Office deemed a remark made by Mr. Smith, solicitor, standing there with a friend, to be insulting. Asheroft asked Smith to repeat the remark, arid on doiug so the former struck him with a stick he carriud, but the. friend succeeded in-preventing further hostilities ■" " .