NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2997, 8 December 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. Napier, December 7. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, J phn Adoane, secretary of Mr E. D. McLean’s election committee, was charged with having signed his name to a form for enrolment purporting to be signed by Eustace Fannin, an absentee. Defendant pleaded not guilty. The evidence showed that Fannin, who was a resident of Gisborne at the time, sent a form written in pencil to his wife to be forwarded to the Registrar. Adeaue said he witnessed the signature of the man, who gave his name as Eustace Fannin. The main point rested on the difference in the spelling of two names. The Bench dismissed the case. William Douglas, sheep-farmer, was lined £5 and costs to-day for running sheep from a run declared to bo infected by liver fluke. He stated that he had known fluke to exist in the Colony for ¥) years, and in that particular district for 33 years, and it had only just been discovered by the Stock Department. Gisborne, December 7. At the inquest on Charles Fisher, who was poisoned, the evidence showed that, in company with two other prohibited persons, he went to the house of a boat-builder named Steele, and breaking into Steele’s house obtained the key of bis boatshed, saying he wanted a drink and would have one. His companions state that he went into the shed, and presently called out * r l’m poisoned!” He died shortly afterwards. Two bottles containing carbolic acid for disinfecting purposes had been left in the shed the day before by a Maori who was carrying them to his employer’s private residence. Fisher was under the influence of drink at the time, and one of his companions turned up at the inquest so drunk that the Coroner refused to hear him. The jury returned a verdict of death from poisoning by misadventure* adding a rider pointing odt.tlie danger of people putting carbolic acid idto bottles add not labelling them poison. , . Napier, December 7. Louis Cantle; aged about 30, committed suicide yesterday by cutting his throat with a table knife. The deceased was a prohibited person, and had been in the habit of taking chlorodyne and painkiller. Christchurch, December 7. At the inquest on a man named Edmund Beckett, aged 68 years, who died suddenly at Linwood on Saturday; a verdict was returned that death was caused by rupture of the aneurism of the aorta. Blenheim, December 7. A smart shook of earthquake was felt at 8.10 o’clock this evening. Gisborne, December 7. A man-named James Liddle, butcher on board the steamer To Anau, fell over the wharf on Saturday morning, and died in the Hospital, the immersion causing pneumonia. Dr Hooper said the man’s condition indicated intoxication. Special to the New Zealand Times. Hastings, December 7. A very large concourse of people followed the remains of the late Albert Earaitiana to the Hastings Cemetery. The Fire Brigade organised a torchlight procession, headed by the band, this evening, in honour of tho arrival of the Mayor, Mr C. A. Fitzroy. His return to the civic chair is very popular. Mastebton, December 7. The statement of Ale*. Yule, of Carterton, shows a deficiency of over .£2OOO. The Mastorton Pastoral and Agricultural A ssociation has decided to erect an Agricultural Hall on the new show grounds at a cost of -£l6O.