TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 37

TELEGRAPHIC.

(press association.) Blenheim, May 5. At a sitting of tha R.M. Court to-day Mr Rogers, on behalf of the Bar, expressed the regret felt at the death of the Premier, and Mr Allan, R.M., endorsed the remarks, and said the Colony had suffered a great loss. Invercakgill, May 5. To-day, at the meeting of the Education Board, a resolution was adopted, on the motion of Mr Baldoy, seconded by Mr Mackintosh, M.H.R., * That this board place on record its regret at the death of the Hon John Ballance and its sense of the losb the Colony has sustained, and express its deep sympathy with Mrs Ballance in her bereavement.' All the members spoke in the highest terms of the deceased statesman's services to the Colony. <

Auckland, May 5. At the annual meeting of the Northern Steamship Company to-day a dividend of 6 per cent was declared, and £648 was oarried forward. The Chairman, Mr D. B. Cruickshank, aaid that the fleet was maintained in good working order, and the several trades of the company kept steady. The report and balanoe-sheet were adopted unanimously. A motion that the honorarium of the directors should be reduced was not sooonded. Auckland, May 6 The action of Rikihiua against John Lundon, in regard to the Kaitaia Block purchase, has concluded, and the Resident Magistrate, Dr Giles, has returned to Auck. and, where he will give his decision, Auckland, May 8. The Auckland branoh of the New Zealand Institute of Journalists have resolved to recommend the council of the institute to take steps to obtain a oharter, during the ensuing session of Parliament, similar to that granted to the Institute of Journalists in Great Britain. The Government is to be asked to make the Bill conferring the charter a Government measure. The Parnell Borough Couucil passed aresolution tonight, regretting the death of Mr Ballance. Auckland, May 9. At a public meeting to-night to consider the trades half-holiday, resolutions were passed in favour of compulsory closing at 1 o'clock on Saturdays. The Government have declined to grant the application of certain petitioners that the sentence of ten years' penal servitude passed upon Powell should be reduced. Feilding, May 5. At the Borough Council meeting last night a resolution was unanimously passed that the Mayor send a letter of oondolence and sympathy to Mrs Ballance, on-behalf of the inhabitants of f eliding, on the loss of her late husband. Dunedin, May 5. A Liberal League was formed at Caversham to-night, and a vote of confidence in the Government waa passed. The Colonial Treasurer arrivod this even' log and goes on to Inveroargill to-morrow. A man has been wrested on a charge of

obtaining £2 ftom a countryman by means of what is known as the ' confidence triok.' The second man is still at large. Dunedin, May 6. Williams, for the confidence trick, was committed for trial.

At a meeting of graduates of tho University, a motion was carried expressing approval of the proposal before tho University Council to oxtend the terms so as to make their duration practically the same as the sessions at Canterbury College. Dunedin, May 8.

About 100 unemployed assembled today at the Town Hall to meet the Mayor and the city members. Forfcv-eighfc married men and six single men, whoso aimai are not on the books of the Labour Bureau, gave in their namec, and the Mayor telegraphed to the Premier, pointing out that some of the families wero in distress, and asking if speedy means of giving relief could be adopted. George James Eden was oharged to-day with obtaining £2l by false pretences. A remand for a week waa granted. It waa stated that the accused arrived hero lately from Melbourne, and victimised people to the extent of hundreds of pounds. jr Dunedin, May 9.

• Word has been received of the death, at Edinburgh; of DrNeill, formerly Medical Superintendent of the Seaoliff Asylum. Ashburton, May 5.

The Ashburton County Council, on th? motion of the Hon W. C. Walker, M.L.C., seconded by Mr if. G. Wright, M.H.R., resolved unanimously—' That this council desires to place on record its appreciation of the public services of the late Mr Ballance, Premier of the Colony, and that a letter expressing the sympathy of the council be forwarded to Mrs Ballance.' The Borough Council and the Liberal Association passed similar resolutions. Palmerston North, May 5.

At tha close of the Rev L, M. Isitt's direct veto mission last night, the theatre was orowdod. A resolution in favour of prohibition without compensation was carried unanimously. Palmerston North, May 6, The Rev L. M. Isitt concluded a successful

Prohibition mission last night, and a large number of prominent citizens have joined tho movoment. The .receipts from collections, independent of other contributions, exceeded £4O. .. Napier, May 5. n~ A cable message received here to'day announces the death of Mrs Tollemache, widow of the late Hon E. Tollemache. It is believed that this means another large wind, fall in the shape of legacy duty. Christchurch, May 6. A number of the unemployed interviewed Mr Tregear, secretary to the Department of Labour, on Saturday morning, and represented that they were not bußhmen, and were consequently unable to accept the work provided by the Government at Chasland and Catlina River. Mr Tregear wired to Wellington to find out if there wbb a poseisibility of pick and shovel work being commenced at the Cheviot Estate at once, but received a reply that, though the surveys were being completed and the roads laid out by the engineers with all expedition, the work was not sufficiently advanced for road parties. Mr Tregear left for Wellington to endeavour to push on matters to provide for the most deserving cases. New Plymouth, May 6, The Railway Hotel, Inglewood, was broken into this morning and the safe in the bar taken outside and broken open. About £lO in notes and coin waa taken out, but two notes and a cheque, two watches, and two gold rings, which were in a separate drawer, were overlooked. The inmates heard no disturbance during the night. Marton, May 8. Murdooh McLean, the well-known jockey, has been arrested on a charge of cattlestealing, and remanded to Hatvcra, where the orlme is alleged to have been committed. Stratford, May 9. A well attended meeting of tha ratepayers of the New Plymouth harbour district "was held here fco-day to consider the question of defending a test case as to their liability to pay the harbour rate The chairman road the opinion of Mr Barleyman, solicitor, that a good defence existed. A resolution was carried to appoint a committee to take steps to teat the validity d the rate. Mr Bar. leyman has been retained to go to New

! Plymouth on Monday next to conduct the oaae. Woodville, May 9. The Presbyterian Church here has given a unanimous call to the Rev Thomas Walls, M.A., D. 1!., a recent arrival from Home. DICE-THROWING. (FROM' OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Masterton, May 4. In a case brought before Mr Hutchison, R.M., in the Masterton Court this morn' ing, under an old Statute of Queen Anne, to recover £2O lost at dice, judgment was given for £l9, with costs. MASTERTON NEWS. Masterton, May 5. 'Evidence in mitigation of the penalty in tho rabbit conviction against the Rev J. C. Andrews, tcdav. resulted in the fine being reduced from £25 to £lO 10a. Notice of appeal was given. A charge of forcible entry, preferred against T. F. Brenohley by D. M. Brooks, both lime-burners, of Maurioovi'le, was dismissed, after occupying the Court a'l day. George Esmond, charged with horsestealing at Turakina, was remanded to Wanganui. WRECKAGE FOUND. (press association.) Auckland, May 8. News reoeived fromTauranga to-day states that the mast of a vessel, presumably a ketch, has been found on Pane Pane beach. The mast is about 25 feet long, perfectly clean, with a piece of canvas painted red nailed to the thickest end. The mast was broken off at the neck and crosstrees. This leads to the belief that it belonged to a vessel capsized in the Bay of Pleuty. No other wreckage has yet been found, but a search is to bo made. The Fane Pane beach is close to the en. trance of Tauranga Harbour. The mast is apparently from some vessel, but the authorities are not award of any Auokland or Southern coaster being missing. THE HARpiREAILURES. Christchurch, May 8. Further meetings of the creditors in the estate of George' and Leonard Harper and T. W. Maude were held to-day. Tho Offioial Assignee reported that he had received no information respecting the application made by him to the Supreme Court for an order consolidating the estates. In the meeting in Maude's estate Mr Wilding, the solicitor for the Offioial Assignee, submitted a long report detailing the results of the investigation which the Assignee had instructed him to make into tho circumstances attending the alteration of the articles of association of the Lyttelton Times Company, Limited, and into the dealing of the bankrupt in connection with the shares held by Harper and Co. and himself in that company. With regard to the mortgage by Maude of his shares to Mrs Maude's trustees, who had made a claim On the estate for' £1407 6a lOd, Mr Wilding reported that, after a conference with the supervisors, although a doubt existed as to the validity of the mortgage as a whole upon various grounds, It was resolved to admit the claim of the trustees after deducting the items which were considered clearly in contravention of the bankruptcy law, and for which no equivalent was received by the estate ; and he was therefore authorised to pay over to the trustees the sum of £B4O 15a Id upon the mortgage being released. Tha option olaimed by Malet to purchase 100 of the shares had been relinquished. The assets thus recovered amounted to £567. Tho report stated that it waa hardly likely that the Lyttelton Times Com« pany would raise any serious obstacle to the Assignee being registered as holder of the shares owned by the bankrupts, but it was anticipated that, by reason of the altera, tions effected in the articlea of association some time ago, difficulties would arise on the attempt to register persons buying shares from the Assignee by auotion or public tender in accordance with the Bank* ruptoy Act. The motion to allow the bank, rupt his furniture waa not seconded ; and another, to defer tho matter till the English creditors bad been communicated with, was withdrawn. In the eatata of Geo. Harper and Leonard Harper no motion was pro. posed. UNEXPECTED REAPPEAR. ANCE. Dunedin, May 9, It was recently announced that William Freeman Kitchen, at one time editor here of the Globe, had died in Launceston, and more lately a death notice appeared, giving acute inflammation as the cause of his death. F. Temple Vane, a theatrical agent who arrived here last week, bore resemblauoe in many respects to tho reported dead man. His features were a good deal altered, the ohange being made really by shaving the beard and moustache, and leaving only short side whiskers, dyed black; but the voice and handwriting were unmistakable. Though taxed with being Kitchen, Vane repeatedly denied this until oornered this afternoon. SUICIDE. Christchurch, May 9, Charles Cook, 23, day porter at the Metropolitan Hotel, was found dead in Hagley Park this evening with two bullet wounds in his head. In a letter found on his body Cook stated that it was in consc» quence of drink that he had determined to take his life.