TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10731, 20 February 1897, Page 6

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.'.

Auckland, February 19. Kenneth Bayhe, the victim of the Te Kuiti stabbing case on December 17, is said to be getting batter. Since his entry into the Waikato,gospital till a week or so ago he lay in a very precarious condition, and his dying depositions were taken, but yesterday he had improved so far as to be able to get out of bed. He i» well known throughout New Zealand as a long-distance runner, and has been in his time, and probably is now, the best mile runner in New Zealand. His brilliant athletic feats down sonth are a matter of history in New Zealand pedestrianism. The two men William Carlson and Charles William Henry White, charged with being perpetrators of the outrage of which Bayne was -the victim, were again before the Police Court this mornieg, and further remanded for one week.

A church property case was mentioned at the Supreme Court civil sittings, in which the president cf the conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church proceeds againsfc William Cole, Joseph Dixon, E. C. Frost, and Samuel Parker, the object of the suit being to get tbe court to declare the nature of the trust upon which the property of the Mount Eden United Methodist Free Church is held. The defendants are trustees of the latter church. The case arises out of the recent union of Methodist churches; the defendants claiming that fchou°h the Mouni Eden Church forms a part of the enlarged denomination, they still hold the property independently. The plaintiffs, on the other hand, contend that the property belongs to the church as a whole. The case cannot come en until the next session of the court anarch 13).

A. O. Field has been committed for trial afc • tVhitianga on a, charge of embezzlement from ! ■he Kauri. Timber Company and on a second ! charge of falsifying books with intention to j defraud. * The Athletic Association made a net profit j af £90 over the Championship meeting. [ Frederick Knight, aged 16, son of George Knight, butcher, was killed early this morning. The deceasad was thrown from a young horse, i

Wellington, February 19. The case againsfc Hermann and others, which i has been going on for a week, has progressed se j far as the dismissal of thafc part of it relating ! to Dr Bakewell. j The Kaikoura, which sailed for London this i afternoon, took seven boxes of gold and 10 I packages of silver, valued at £9840, shipped by i the Waihi Company, National Bank, and Bank ; tf New Zealand. • •