TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10360, 15 May 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

."'"•" ■'■'. ■—•——» ■■ f (Peb United Pbess Associaation.) "• - ''•'■'. ' AtJCKLAsrp, May'l4. -A'swagger named Thomas Booth, who said lie had tramped from Napier and conld not gefc work, broke WoJlarge paness of glass in the Papakura Courthouse on Sunday. Constable Foreman arrested him, and ihe Papakura bench _=„___ ii... _.;._■ -_::., ,„ 3 .. ~• -■_-.-■ U-J.--U nuu uiau xsc, ana __us ior tne damage done, or one month's hard labour in default. Q.Donnell, a gumdigger, missing for a fortnight at. Luce,.- creek, was eccentric, and is supposed fco; have committed suicide. At the Police Court, before Mr Northcroft, S.M;, the.fi-sfc of the charges-agtkiasfc John Adean, of Gitborne, under the penal clause of the Bankruptcy Act, was heard. Counsel submitted tbafc the accused did not get credit by false pretences and fraud. The case was dismissed. Th*. accused pleaded guilty to not keeping proper books, and was ordered to come up tor sentence when called on. Gisbot-N-?, May 11. In tha Supreme Court;, before' Registrar Baiton, the hearing of an application was commenced in which Duncan and James M'Nicol, of Auckland, pefcitioii that Wi Pere, M.H.R., bs adjudged a bankrupt. The debt to the judgment creditors is £.311, and it is alleged that; the debtor committed tlie act of bankruptcy on March 12. Mr ■ Nolan appeared in support of the petition, Mr Rees for Wi Pere. A large number of objections were raised by Mr Rees in the course of the argument; and the case was adjourned till.to-morrow. Christchobch, May 11. Afc a meeting of the Canterbury Insurers' Protection Society it was reported thafc the amount of business passed through was £67,165, and that a larger amount Whs now- under negotiation. Corresponde-i.e was received from seven-l districts set-king information as to the working of the association. Ifc was decided to recoa_m.-nd that they should form their own association and affiliate wiih^the Canterbury Association. . - * , Mrs S. King, aged 83, residing afc Fernside, was fouud dead m bed. At the inquest the medical evidence showed thab death resulted ' from senile decay. A six-roomed house and store at Sheffield, belougiug to Mrs A. Sheppard, was destroyed by fire lash night. Ifc was "insured in the New Zealand office for £150. On Sunday night a number of young men connected with one of the local churches visited a auuibsr of hotels with the object of detecting, if possible, the licensees.in' breaches of th-s act. lt is said thafc they had little difficulty in obtaining liquor at some of the houses, and ifc is understood informations will be laid against 11 publicans. At a meeting of the Women's Political Association it was resolved to join with the Liberal organisations in inviting the Premier to deliver au iid'.iress in Christchurch. Toe secretary was instructed to press upon the Government the necessity for the adoption of the strongest messures to prevent the immigration of Chinese snd other Asiatics. Ifc was also resolved that fche attention of the Government be called to the infectious nature of consumption or tuberculosis, ami to the large number of people coming to the coiouy suffering from such complaints, with a view'to action of a repressive nature Iv-iog taken. John EJing, a grocer, an old resident, dropped dead in the street this evening. A man named John Horler, thrown out of a trottiug sulky on Sunday, died in the hospital to-night.