LATE TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 956, 27 June 1890, Page 17

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) Auckland, June 25. Watson and Murray, brewers, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Beer Duty Act, and were fined the minimum penalty, the total being £l2O, and costs £6 15s 6d. Christchurch, June 25. Last night at the St Augustine Masonic Lodge, N.Z.C., seven members were affiliated and seventeen brethren were proposed for affiliation. David Hastings Brown was to-day charged, on the information of James Embling, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, with having in January feloniously embezzled £124 6s, the moneys of the Bank. Mr Fisher appeared for the Bank, and Mr Stringer for accused. Mr Fisher said he was not prepared to go on, as the evidence would take some time to work up. He asked for a remand of eight days. Mr Stringer did not object, and the accused was remanded till 3rd July. Bail was allowed, the accused being bound over in his own recognisances of £SOO, with two sureties of £250 each. Dunedin, June 25. The death is announced of Mr Henry Dench, one of the earliest settlers of Fort Chalmers. The Weldon subscription amounted to £270. News has been received of the death in England of Mr Chetham Strode, an exDunedin magistrate. Feeny’a bigamy case was remanded till tomorrow. A slight altercation took place this morning between Mr Solomon, who appears for the informant, and one of the Justices. The former having suggested that he should not adjudicate, seeing that he had acted in a former hearing, the Justice charged counsel with being impertinent. Eventually it was agreed that Mr Carew, R.M., should hear the case. (from our own correspondent.) Westport, June 23. The bankrupt Lawrie, who was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on charges formulated by his Wellington creditors, was sent to Hokitika Gaol this morning. His solicitor sent warning to the gaoler that the warrant was bad. His solicitor proceeds to Wellington to-morrow in connection with the proceedings to obtain Lawrie’s release. The sum of £1095 has been paid in borough license fees, and an equal amount from the county, A Maori workman at Morris’ sawmill had his right arm almost cut off this morning by a circular saw. It is feared that he will lose his arm. Typhoid fever is prevalent in town.