NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8061, 23 September 1887, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦— — • [OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ! Thame?, Thursday. A cricket club, to be called the United, has been formed, and. thirty members joined last night. Arthur Kirk was sentenced to seven days , imprisonment for begging. The prisoner had refused meals when offered. J PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Westpoet, Thursday. Mr. R. Napier Bell, Harbour Board engineer, having demanded from the publishers o> the Buller News the name of the writer of certain alleged libellous letters, published anonymously, they have given up the name, viz., Joseph Eugene O'Connor, and an action at law is probable, Christchuece, Thursday. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Club, it was decided to hold a champion tournament in Christ;church this season, the date to be fixed by the committee. The club has now 150 members. Invercargill, Thursday. R. Bradnor and party, who left Dunedin some months ago to join Sutherland in working » ground which he alleged to be auriferous between Mi , .ford and Big Bays, have broken up and Bradner i> at Eig Bay much the poorer for the venture. The faot that Mr- Hatch's schooner A warn rescued the Derry Castle survivors from Auckland Islands has been the main topic of conversation here to-day. Mr Hatch it the late member for the town, and is again a candidate. He has been questioned at meetings as to the destination of the vessel, which left here about six weeks ago, and replied that the schooner had gone to the islands in Bass' Straits to bant seals, and had not to hie knowledge gone to the A lauds for the same purpose, seats being at present protected. The newe from Melbourne haj* therefore, been made nolitioal oaDitai of. . ~ >