TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19802, 29 May 1926, Page 11

TELEGRAMS.

(P&s United Peess Association.) HAMILTON, May 28. Reserved judgment by Mr Justice Ostler to-day, delivered in an action brought by Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Companv. against English and Luxford, accountants, Hamilton, for £IOO damages for alleged breach of The case arose out of an address given at Matangi by Mr Fulton. This resulted in defendant bringing an action which was settled on condition that the terms be kept confidential, but which it was alleged the defendants had_ disclosed. Defendants counter-claimed for £IOOO for an alleged similar breach. Judgment was for the defendants on the claim, with costs, expenses, and disbursements. On the counter-claim defendants were granted £1 damages, defendants to pay their own tOStl " NAPIER, May 28. A car owned by Mr S. J. M'Kee, of Hastiutrs, which was taken without authority from a stand in King’s street, Hastings, on Thursday night, was found this morning in Irongate road. It was badly damaged by fire. The Government has decided to erect in Napier at an early date 26 houses for railway employees. Hitherto there bad been some difficulty in the matter of securing suitable sites in a desirable locality. The houses will come to Napier in sections from the workshops. MASTERTON. May 28. Robert Stanley Hanna, clerk of the Masterton County Council, appeared before Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon _ to answer a charge that, between April 1 and July 31, 1925, he received from Elliott Brothers the sum of £TB Ss 2d, on terms requiring him to account for the same to the Masterton County Council, and that lie did fraudulently omit to account for the sum to the said Masterton County Council. An application for a remand till June 4 was granted, and it ia probable that a further remand will be applied for, as other charges may be preferred. The accused was admitted to k a il — ge lf in £3CO and two sureties of £2OO. WELLINGTON, May 28.

A meeting of the Royal Show Society discussed the proposals to alternate the shows between Palmerston North and Christchurch. Eventually it was decided to leave the location of the 1927 show in the hands of the council of the society. CHRISTCHURCH, May 28.

“Bankruptcies are becoming more and more messy every day,” said a creditor at a meeting in the estate of Robert Heathcote Fenton, ex-coal merchant, and a former policeman, who had kept no books. It was decided to place Fenton’s affairs in the Crown Solicitor’s bands for the fullest investigations. Thieves late last evening broke into the shop of Tisdalla (Ltd-), Christchurch, gaining an entrance from the back yard. They stole a quantity of firearms and ammunition.