TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 20 July 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON"! . July m • ■ Te Wheti} and Jib out felf-a ; dfl2;en natives, who were engaged in erecting fences accross the road.line near Parih'ak'a, have been arrested and sent on to New Plymouth. July 20. The native will case, Nahe v. Tomoana, occupied the Supreme Court all yesterday, and is not likely to conclude to-day. The qa°e is brought to test the validity of the will of the deceased ICarajtaina. F 0 ? the defence, it was alleged that he was insane at the time of making the will. DUNEDIN. . . 1 ' July 20. Mr. Stout authorises the Star to state that he never saw Mr. Conyers' reply until it was in print. CHRISTCHURCH. July 20. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday the licensee of the Queen's Hotel was summoned for keeping a barmaid in the bar after hours, but the girl said she was uot serving drinks but merely conversing with friends. The case was dismissed.. This was the first case of the kind brought in Canterbury. Mr. W. B- Qlejflonts left for Auckland and Whangarei yesterday to select land for the Cooperative Land Society for the purpose of establishing a special settlement. The weather continues unseasonably fine. Wattles, veronicas, and many similar plants are now in full flower. AUCKLAND. July 19. John and Mvtrdpph were sentenced, the former to a week, and the latter to a month's imprisonment for. stealing provisions from the steamer Waitaki. The provisions had been mys-teriously-disappearing from the Vessel for the, past two months. sAttik July 2Q. A fire which occurred this morning destroyed two old cattages, which were insured in the' South British for Ll5O and the New Zealand for LIOO. NELSON. July 19. Ethel Biggs, a little girl of 7, was playing near her. home at Stanley Brook, yesterday, when a .decayed tree fell, striking her. She was taken into town, and it was found necessary to amputate her right leg, which sustained a compound fracture. She is progressing satisfactorily. ■ :