NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7392, 23 March 1886, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from OUR own CORRESPONDENT. Tk Aroha, Monday; A farewell tea-meeting is being held in the Public Hall thiß evening, on the occasion of tho departure from the district of the Rev. Mr. Wills, Wesleyan clergyman, who leaves here on Wednesday for bis new charge at Gisborne. Whangaroa, Monday. Mr. Hobbs, M.H.R., addressed the electors on Saturday evening. The meeting was largely attended, and Mr. Davison presided. A hearty vote of thanks to and confidence in Mr. Hobbs was carried unanimously. [press association.] Wangantji, Monday. At the regatta the four-oared outrigger race was won easily by Wakatu, Nelson. Christchurch, Monday. In reply to the Mayor, the Minister for Public Works telegraphs that he is making inquiries as to further provisions for the unemployed, and a petition is being circulated here praying the Government to grant employment for all married men. A labourer named Charles Lukey died suddenly in a fit on Sunday night at Amberly. For the Agricultural and Pastoral Association's coming ram and ewe fair the entries number approximately 2500 rams and 200 ewe Dunedin, Monday. The libel action, Stead v. Roydhouse and another, is to be heard here before Mr, Justice Williams next Wednesday. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes in the case of Jessie Carrick, a servant girl, who dropped down dead in the street on Saturday evening* Mr. Justice Williams, sitting in Banco today, annulled an order adjudicating Coleman Burke a bankrupt. The order waa made by the Registrar, and the petitioning creditor was G. W. Klliott, who has a suit with Burke pending in the Supreme Court. His Honor held that the Bankruptcy Court, being a court of equity, should, before making an adjudication, inquire into the truth of an assertion by a debtor that he has an equitable set off against his creditors. In the present case it seemed that the effect of making | an order of adjudication at onoe would be to embarrass, if not altogether put an end to, the proceeding in the (Supreme Court. A meeting of shareholders in the Keep-it-Dark Company was held to-day, at which the chairman stated he had telegraphed to the legal manager at Reefton requesting full particulars regarding certain alleged deficiencies, and the duplication of scrip. The only telegram he had received in reply bearing upon the matter was to the effect that the directors would make up all deficiencies. The meeting was adjourned until this morning. The Premier arrived here from the North this evening. After the address of Mr. Lee Smith at Milton last Friday night, the Bruce County Farmer's League was formed* A resolution was unanimously passed that the time had come for State intervention on behalf of mortgagors and tenants. A resolution was also carried affirming the advisability of establishing a State bank. Peter Silverston has been committed for trial on the charge of indecently assaulting his daughter. It is alleged that such conduct has been going on for three years. A witness expressed doubts as to prisoner's sanity.