GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11535, 21 November 1900, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH. association.? Wellington, Tuesday. The Stipendiary Magistrate gave judgment to-day in a case in which a firm of mineral water manufacturers claimed the return of bottles which had come into the possession of a marine storekeeper. The Court held that the bottles were the property of the issuers, and could not honestly be acquired by other persons except with the consent of the owners. Judgment was given accordThe Maori, which soiled for England this morning, took '146 tons butter and 82 tons cheese, besides £7049 worth of gold, shipped by the National Bank. . . A young man named Weeks died at Levin this morning from injuries received while bushfelling. At the Magistrate's Court to-day a Chinese, who had given evidence for the police in the recent charges of illegal gaming brought against his countrymen, was charged by the defendants in these cases with having committed perjury. The evidence was very contradictory and the Bench dismissed the information. Mr. W. Crow, for some years on& of the Premier's secretaries, has 'been appointed private secretary to the Hon. C. H. Mills. Napier, Tuesday. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at twenty minutes past eight last night. Dttnedin, Tuesday.

" Banjo" Paterson was met this afternoon by the members of the local Journalists' Institute, and cordially welcomed to the colony CirniSTOireßCH, Tuesday. The severe weather of Saturday and Sunday has caused considerable losses of newlyshorn sheep on the Peninsula. At the Magistrate's Court toiday 12 men, who were captured during the police raid last week, were charged with having been found without lawful excuse in a gaminghouse oft* Gloucester-street. Mr. Russell for the defence submitted that the conviction of the owner must precede the conviction of any persons frequenting a gaming-house. Mr. Beetham upheld the contention, and accordingly the case collapsed. Invkrcargili, Tuesday. Yesterday's mail from Dunedin and the North arrived in a state of pulp. The cart in which it was being conveyed by road, between the stuck-up trains in the Taieri, being capsized at the place where the road was covered by sft of water. Some Christmas numbers of Northern papers suffered badly. This afternoon the dedication of a flagstaff and bunting took place at the Park school, on the border of the town. The staff was provided by the ex-pupils, and the flags by friends of the school. His Excellency the Governor, who is in the town, willingly consented to take part in the ceremony, and delivered an interesting address, being followed by the Hons. Ward, Feldwick, and Dr. Smyth.