NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6997, 21 April 1884, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from odb own correspondent.] TE AROHA, Saturday, A change of tenants is to-day taking place in the Hot Springs Hotel. Mr. O'Halloran, late of the Thermal Boarding House, is to take possession on Monday. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , WELLINGTON, Saturday. Dr. Key worth, a former praofcitioner here,' who visited England ou account of ill-health and returned by the Tongariro, will take charge of the Wellington ilospital as senior surgeon. Mr. Sargent, chief officer of the Haloione, at present in Wellington, ha 3 received the appointment of master' of the Glenlora, which recently arrived at Lyttelton in oharge. of the first mate, the captain having died oh the voyage oat from London. ■

CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. - The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met the Colonial Secretary thiß morning with reference to drainage at the Hospital. During the interview. Mr, Dick said there was no probability of a Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill being introduced next session. At Ashley last night Nathaniel Boyce was kicked on the head by' a horse,' and died in four hours. :;

At the Supreme Court Samuel, Robert Hansen,, accused of detaining a letter, was acquitted. William Stewart McConnell, for attempted arson, and Edward Clarkson, for indecent assault, were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.' Mr. Dick goes North by the Wanaka this evening.

Major Atkinson will speak in Cbristohnrch on Friday next.

DTJNEDIN, Sunday. ' An action for defamation of oharaoter will be heard at the District Court on Wednesday. The parties are rival bootmakers, and the plaint note alleges that on or abont Aprifc last - the defendant faleely and maliciously spoke or published : concerning the plaintiff the following words:—" Yon are a thief anrit a robbar and a swindler. No wonder yotr were boycotted in the Arcade, being such a' swindler, yon dirty low soampmeaning that by reason of the dishonest and swindling practica of the plaintiff in the-course of his trade when keeping a shop in the Arcade, and' his general bad character, persons refused to deal with him, and by sach refusal the plaintiff was forced to leave the Arcade. Damages are laid at £200. . On Friday, a man named-Peter McCor«miok was jerked off the platform of a. railway carriage, as the train was Bearing Port Chalmers from the North. • He landed on x his head, but was only slightly cut, and a policeman who went in-search of him, met him walking in. He was perfectly- sober, and states that he was jerked off whilst: looking at the shipping. News has reached town of the death by drowning of Mr. William Tennent, who has been a commercial traveller in the country, districts of Otago for a very long .time. He was thrown oat of his buggy into the Manuherikei river, near Ophir, in the Vincent county.. He leaves a grown up family. : A meeting has been convened for next Wednesday to form an Historical Society of New Zealand, to gather documents and records pertaining to the early history of the colony.