TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10419, 23 July 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Pbh United Press Association.)

. „ _.• ' Auckland, July 22. A ffirs Collett was arrested on the' Tskapuna as the wan leaving for toe south/and charged witu forging, an endorsement to a bank draft for £30.

. Thra Crown solicitor has not yet asked Mr S.M., to stats a base for appeal in | tao balf-holiday prosecutions. [ liasb night a young man named Frederick | Brown, of -Angehea street, was strolling in j Kicbmpnd road with a youug lady when he v.-as i »ssailed by a man (unidentified) with a knife, ! and was cnt on the head and under the eye. The young lady was also maltreated. Both are under medical treatment. Welhn'gtpn, Jnly 22. About 14,000 acres of the Awarau block will fee available for selection for settlement in a short time. Chkistchurch, July 22. The spsce sircade applied'for at the industrial exhibition exceed« that avaiisble, even taking into account a new annexe which it was recently decided to build. It consequence it has been decided* to extend the braiding by another Hit, aud to anEouuce to intending exhibitors that; this will be the fiaal extension. Timahtj, July 22. The band conksb selection arrived by the San Francisco mail from Boosey aud Co., and will be mailed at once to competing bands. ' Invbscaegili,, July 22. The lavercargill Garrison Band have instructed Mr Wade to take prooeediegs against tha Jocal Contest Comuiitiee for tba rc-eOvery of £100, the first prise in the baml contest iv. this~iov?n in October 1884. The gammons will be served tt-morrow, but the hesriug will be delayed so that the bami3 icterested may have time to consider whit action they will take.