TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11809, 11 August 1900, Page 7

TELEGRAMS.

(Pkk United Press Association.)

GISBORNE, August 10.

At the Supreme Court to-day Moana Parateu was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment on a charge of the larcsny of a quantity of oats. Hone Terua was found not guilty on a charge'of perjury, and was discharged.

WELLINGTON, August 10. It is understood the question of purchasing the 'Miramar estate is'again under the consideration of the City Council. The electrical engineer of the New Zealand railways left by the Talune to make inquiries into the working of the electrical staff system in New South Wales and Victoria.

It is stated that Captain Brophy is to be exonerated by the directors of the Union S.S. Company for the loss of the Taupo at Greymouth. ■

Private advices state that another application has been received by the Westport Coal Company for a cargo of coal for China, and that a vessel under charter ■will shortly arrive in New -Zealand.

During July ,a . total of 3403 workmen were employed on the co-operative works throughout the colony under the Government departments. During the same month 327 unemployed were assisted by the Department of Labour.

A public meeting to-night endorsed the City Council's proposal to raise a loan for the purchase of the tramways and the widening of certain streets. It is understood Mr Hill, the present manager of the tram service, will hold the same position under the council.

His Excellency the Governor has issued invitations to a number of veterans who served in the regular army or the New Zealand volunteers in the Maori war to attend a' luncheon on September 8, a date famous as the' anniversary of the fall of Sebastopol. .

CHRISTCHURCH, August 10.

The Canterbury Land Board recently brought an action in the District Court at Timaru against a settler at Albury for alleged trespass on land and the conversion of drops, but the board was nonsuited. At a meeting yesterday the board decided to submit the case to the Crown law officers in Wellington, with a view to having it retried by the Supreme Court at Christehurch-.

NELSON, August 10.

An old settler, a German., named Hodgkinson, died to-day; aged 98 years. He arrived in Nelson in 1842.

HOKITIKA, August 10. A dwelling owned by Dr Macandrew, and occupied by Mr Clegg, telegraphist, was destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this morning. The fire was caused by the accidental fall of a lamp. The flames spread with such rapidity that Mr and Mrs Clegg and their infant child had to escape through the bedroom window in their night clothes. Nothing was saved. The insurances were: Dwelling, £200 in the Royal; furniture, £200 in the Norwich Union.

INVERCARGILL, August 10.

Arthur Graeme ■ Hay wood, hairdresser, and James Grant, tobacconist and hairdresser, were committed for trial to-day on similar charges of the alleged theft of salvaged goods. On May 4 a fire occurred in the town, and a large quantity of stuff removed from the. shops was stacked in the street, and afterwards distributed' for protection in the shorts adjacent. Grant's shop, next the theatre, was so used for goods which belonged to Mr R. Gray, clothier and ' outfitter. They were afterwards removed by the owner, but it is alleged that Grant and Haywood (who was in Grant's service) each retained from £10 to £12 worth, which were removed by them to their respective homes. In Haywood's case, which was taken first, it was shown that he practically admitted that the goods* were Gray's, and in an answer to a remark by a detective implicated another person, 'in Grant's case, the identification of the goods was weak, and the invoices for the goods purchased by him from wholesale houses were produced. These, however, did not contain the goods covert coats, etc.—found by the police in his house. To account for these he said they had been left at his shop by persons lie ' did not know. Counsel urged that there was no case to answer. The good? had not been identified nor proved to oz stolen from any person, b'ifc Mr M'Cvtny, S.M., sent him for tri-V.. ..

—In the British Meg, during the present century, seven instajjew have been rcoorcir-d in which the lirid* hno married llifi best man by mistake.

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