NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9013, 28 March 1888, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] Wellington, Tuesday. M. Dumas, who has been running the " Restaurant Frangaise," is believed to have left town. He left a note that the books should be handed to his creditors, and stated that he could no longer carry on business. He is believed to have gone to Auckland.

A nautical enquiry into the wreck of the ship Pleione will be held on Thursday. At the inquest on the body of an infant found in Oriental Bay on the 17th instant, a verdict of found dead was returned.

Greymouth, Tuesday. Thomas McClasky and William Bradley, iockeys, were sentenced by the Resident Magistrate to two months' imprisonment in Hokitika gaol, for using obscene language in a public place. Christchurch, Tuesday. Detective R. Neill has arrested a man named Robert Cooper, on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of £40 from the Dunedin Coffee Palace, on March 21. , To-day Alexandar Dunbar was committed for trial on a charge of unlawfully offering £50 to T. Brydon, manager at Dunedin for the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, to abstain from bidding for a section of Crown lands at auction on February 29. The charge was based on certain letters written to Brydon by Dunbar, who pleaded ignorance of the law on the subject).