TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13209, 16 February 1905, Page 7

TELEGRAMS.

IPisit United Pnuss Association.) AUCKLAND, February 15. The valuation list for the City of Auckland for tho current year, which has been .submitted to tho council, shows an increase in tho total assessments of £18,093 as coinpared with last year, tho respective amounts being £406,638 and £424,781. Of the inereaso £8190 is represented by new properties and £99(8 by increases on existing valuations. Tho list is subject to the usual revision, | Complete official returns of tho transactions in bankruptcy in the northern district as compiled by the oflioial assignee $how that the total number of bankruptcies in the districts under his jurisdiction during ho year 1004 was 85, of which Auckland contributed 41, Stratford 18, Hawera 13, New Plymouth. 11, and Gisbornc 2. For tho previous year the total was 54, Auckland being responsible for 31, New Plymouth 9, Hawera 6, Stratford 3, and Gisborno 5. The following are tho principal returns compiled for 1904:—Assets as shown by statements filed, £51,018; assets realised, . £21,444; liabilities as proved, £65,435; amount paid in dividends, £10,257. | THAMES, February 15. ' John Lupton was injured tsevorely in, tho IComato Reefs mine' by a prematura explosion. He had his face and head knocked about, It was thought at first his eyesight had gone, but it is hoped this will bo saved. Lupon had l a miraculous escape from death. Tho Thames Drainage Board ha? taken over the Government pumping plant, valued at £100,000, for three months' trial. Steam is up and the draining of the deep levels will commence forthwith. There is in course of construction a public library to cost £2000, swimming baths to cost £1300, a new high school to cost £1000, apd a technical collegc to cost £800. The latter is to bo fully equipped. LIVER and KIDNEY WORRIES ' POSITIVELY CURED by. Dr ENSOR'S TAMER JUICE. Tamer Juice also Relieves Distress from DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, and TOO HEARTY EATING. A Perfect Remedy for DIZZINESS,. NAUSEA/DROWSINESS, BAD TASTE in | the MOUTH, COATED TONGUE; TORPID j LIVER. • , A PTTPP.T.V vttftwiuTiT.'P. rnunnTTxm

I » •••'-• NAPIER, February 15. ' \t *' 16 Supremo Court to-day Henry JSewton waa convicted of burglary . and Aiiuie Cantdm of theft, and \yor&~remandecl n for sentence, '. Samuel Nel&on, eh-nrged with the theft of a cheque, found not guilty. . . PALMERSTOX NORTJI, February 15. J. 8.. Wisliart, a, well-known maniifae? turipg jeweller hero, was' firrcsted this niornm ing on t)ireo charges of receiving stolen jeivollery which, it is alleged, jjo iuiew had ,jj. been dishonestly obtained. The was remanded to. Wellington, bail' being „ allowed. . ' Ih —=- . s to WELLINGTON, February 15. 'The executors in the estate of tho lato. Jacob Joseph have haudfed to tho Victoria . Col|oge Council £3000 in Wellington pity ne dobeiilures, yielding 4| per cent., for t)ib ee establishment of scholarships in tcrnis of the deceased's' will. The ;North Island members of the Land Commission met to-day, and adjourned to Dunedin, where they reassemble bp Friday. Tho Commission holds its first meeting for taking cyidence at Inveroargill on Tuesday, ag Oiving to the spreading of the bush liro, )n Roy's sawmill at Eketaliuna lias been destroyed. There was no insurance. The three scholarships established at the at To Aute Native College by Mr Douglas be M'Lean, Napier, in memory of his father, )e tho late Sir Donald M'Lean, have been rou 0 ; this year as follow:—Senjor, Tahi Iwikan, of To Aute College j junior, Honi Tamati le and Tai Heketa, both of Poverty Bay. n- WESTPORT, February 15. Ly The balanep sheet of the Westport j s Mining and' Industrial Exhibition, submitted tp the comipittee <\t tho annual tt - meeting to-night, showed a credit balance ig of £112 7a 2d. ' d HOKiriKA, February 15. The eighth annual agricultural show f- eventuated hero to-day in splendid weaker. 1- There was a record fittendanoe. The judges (j and other competent men wore itniek with |e the vast improvement 'in tho stock, several exhibitors showing animals of the highest y excellence, and dearly demonstrating the ir progress and importance of the agricultural >f and pastoral interests in Westland in recent , years. CHRISTCHURO.II, February 15. A fire this morning.destroyed a painter's workshop at Linwood, the, property of. ,e Archibokl. The building was insured in the ls Liverpool and London and G|ohe for £75, and the contents for £225 in the sqme office. In tlie Supremo Court Paul Orfcmann was 0 sentenced to three years' imprisonment for I- wilfully setting fire to a shop in Colombo 6 street on Deoember 6. Frederick J. Clarke, e wlio pleaded "Guilty" to the theft of moneys amounting to about £150, received by him as clerk to the Templetpn Road Board, was admit-to) -to pronation for 18 ■ g months, and ordered to pay £5,' the costs : g of the prosecution. Captain F. 11. B. Fisher (a son of Mr | George Fisher), who has already announced his candidature for one of the Ohristohurch > City seats, addressed a first meeting of i 5 electors to-night. 110 had u very good [ meeting, and wjs accorded a capital Lear- i J '"!?• He stated thflt he would stand,as an. Independent Liberal, He severely criticised i | the administration of the Government in 1 several departments, pnrticiilaily Land and ] r Defence, and was vorv severe upon the j Premier por'sonnHy. He supported the ; freehold, and said that he was standing as an out-and-out prohibitionist. He nntici- , s ™ted mnro chances of reform under a , 1 T.ihernl Government than under tlie Onpo- , , sition. A vote of thanks was carried on ' tho motion of Mr T. E. Taylor, Ells, tlie To Awa.ite mimlever, was once < r a prisoner in L.vftelton Oaol. Tl-e l o eal ' eaol authorities say that it was F/llis who i assisted in the esenne of tho celebrated ' , Jonathan Roberto. Roberts >»ot away from i j a galvanised iron hut at Quarantine Island i ' by means of a hole r-ut in the will. Ellis ] 1 was tho accompliec who out the hole. ]