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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9185, 6 January 1891, Page 2

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(fmm ouk owx correspondents.) Otaki, January 5. John Retter, a settler of Levin, who failed to appear, was charged this day on two informations of sly grog selling at Horowhenua, before Messrs Simcox and Small, J’s.P. He was fined £lO and £4 Is coats on tho first charge ; the second was withdrawn. Mastekton, January 5, A man named Edward MoKanna, who was arrested at Sketahnna yesterday on a charge of forging and uttering a cheque for £lO, has been drinking heavily. He was taken to Pahiatua. At the Masterton Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day Colonel Roberts dismissed an information against Edward Elliaton, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Eketahuna, against whom a writ of certiorari to briag license into Supreme Court was issued a fortnight ago. The charge was selling liquor without a license. Westport, January 5. The plans for the loading basin at the eastern breakwater are expected to be returned by Sir John Goode by the present Inward mail. Charles Brown, engineer for the Westport Wallsend Company, writes from Wellington to the Westport Star to - night making strong complaint, in the interests of the coal leaseholders at Mokihinui, against the terms of the agreement

between the Mokihinui Coal Company and the Railway Commissioners, Mr Brown says the agreement enables the Mokihinui Coal Company to levy a charge of 2s 2Ad per ton for haulage of all coal over the Com* pany’s two miles of railway line. He pro. tests against this as giving prohibitive monopoly to one company, rendering the the whole of the coal leases valueless to every body but the Mokihinui Company. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, January 5. It is rumoured that an attempt will be made to upset the election of Mr Joyce for Akaroa, on the ground that all the polling places in the district should have closed at the some hour instead of that at Lyttelton at 7 p.m., and others at 6. A tire broke out this morning in a fcevjn* roomed dwelling and shop occupied by Mr Bryenton, batcher, at Linwood. The build* ing was totally destroyed. The insurances are £2OO on the furniture and plant in the Commercial Union, and £SOO on the honse la the New Zealand office. Very little of the furniture is saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. Timaru, January 5. The late rains have vastly improved the appearance of pastures already, and prospects of winter feed in grass and turnips are good. Auckland, January 5. The Herald says that the Inspector of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, has received advice from London that Mr Larkworthy has resigned his seat on the Board of that Company, and that Sir John G. Gorat, Q.C., M.P., and Mr H. J. Bristow have joined the Board of Directors in London, At a meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Garrett Bros., the question was raised as to whether the executors under the will of the late R. Garrett, a former partner, had a right to vote in regard to the dispose! of the estate. The meeting was adjourned in order that legal opinion might be ob* tained on the matter. Gisdounk, January 5. The cutter Venus, 38 tons, after being one month stuck •in the river at Tologa Bay, stranded on the beach off the bar. If the weather is fine she may be got off at high spring tides in a fortnight’s time. Thames, January 5. A petition was on Saturday lodged with the Returning Officer by Mr U illiam Fraser, ex-member for the Thames, against the return of Mr Allen for Te Aroha electorate. Particulars are not yet known. Dunedin, January 5, By the revaluations of the selections in Otago for the year under the Selectors’ Revaluation Act, the capital value of 434 holdings of Crown lands has been reduced from £105,134 to £96,085. All the berths have been taken for the Tarawera'e first Sounds Excursion.