NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6828, 5 October 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

' [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. Owing to Parliamentary and professional engagement?, Mr. Edward Shaw has declined an influential requisition to contest the Mayoralty. CHKISTCHURCH, Thursday. The third annual meeting of the Chrißtchurch Working Men's Club was held tonight. The report showed the year's receipts ' to be £2225 10s, expenses £2007 2s 7d, asssets £4476 13s Id, liabilities £3335 0s Id. The club has now over 400 members, and has just completed a commodious hall for entertainments. P. Bourdon, a clerk employed in the New Zealand Grain Agency Company's office, Timaru, waa arrested on board the Te Anau by Detective O'Connor to-day while going North, charged with embezzling money amounting to £61. There are supposed to be other defalcations to the amount of £250. TIMARU, Thursday. At a meeting of the Board of Education to-day twenty-four applications were received for the post of Secretary, and Major J. Bamfield was appointed. DUNEDIN, Thursday. It is stated here that the Governor and Lady Jervois and family are likely to spend the summer months in Dunedin. At the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of James Durston, charged with creating a nnisance at Kaikori by conducting soapboiling works, the jury foand a verdict of not* guilty. The case against the butchers for selling unwholesome sausages has been farther adjourned till Tuesday. 1 In dismissing a lad charged with a breach of the peace in connection with the Salvation Army, Mr. Watt, R.M., said the Army, by ! their processions and open-air meetings, t invited assault.