GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9491, 21 April 1894, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[uy tklkgraph.—press association.] Opotiki, Friday. Mr. Mueller, Commissioner of Crow# Lands, leaves for Auckland by the steamii night. He has been hard at work ifc specting Crown lands in the neighbourhood of Opotiki, Waiofcahi, and Ohiwa, much oi which only requires roads to make ib well adapted for settlement. . Haweba, Friday. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of James Bailey, cattle dealer, on the charge' of being an absconding bankrupt. Wkstpobt, Friday. The District Court was again occupied all day hearing the action Ferguson v. Wright, claim for £500 damages for allowed unskilful treatment The case will probably concludo to-morrow evening, Wellington, Friday. The Victorian Government send three representatives to the Ottawa Conference, namely, Sir H. Wrixon, Messrs. Fraser and Fitzgerald. Dunedin, Friday. Frederick Marryatt, a clerk in the Customs here, was charged at the Police Court to-day with the embezzlement of £12 8s Bd, anil was remanded till Tuesday on bail. The directors of the Mutual Agency Company have declared an interim dividend at fcho rate of 8 per cent, per annum for the half-year. - At a meeting of the Kaitangata Relief Fund Committee it was decided to grant £1 per week to a woman whose husband was killed while working in the coal mine at ICurou, !North Otago. , CiibiBTCHDRC«, Fridav. At the Police Court Frederick Marfand Hadfield was committed for trial on two charges of forgery. > '