TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1901, 10 July 1890, Page 18

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The total value of the estate of the late S Jagger, brewer, Auckland, has not yet been ascertained. His widow is to receive £1000 a-year for the education and support of the children until the youngest child is. 21 years of age. Each childon reaching the age of 21 years is to receive £2000. The prospectus of a company for publishing a weekly newspaper in the interests of trades unions in Wellington is being issued. The capital is £2500 in 5000 shares of 10a each. At the annual meeting of the Farmers' Coperative Association on Saturday the directors' report was adopted. So*ne discussion ensued on a suggestion to establish a farmers' fire and marine insurance company, which was generally approved. The retiring directors were reelected.

At Chrißtchurch on Friday night a woman named Kennedy assaulted a man named John Risk, who lodged with her.and inflicted five wounds on his head with a poker. He is in the hospital in a precarious state. The woman, on being arrested, says the man gave gross provocation. Mr Geo. Shirtcliffe, who is relinquishing the management of the South Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association to go into business in Dunedin.was presented by the staff on Saturday with a binocular marine glass. The as-oc.ation's banker, solicitor, and auditor were present. Mr Shirtcliffe joins Messrs A. S. Paterson and Co., Dunedin, and is succeeded by Blr A. C. Inglis (late J. Inglis and Co., Christchurch). Mr H. B Vogel, eldest son of Sir Julius Vogel, has been admitted at Wellington as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. The Southland Education Board has decided that if any change is made iv the syllabus, it should be in the direction of securing greater simplicity of work in the various standards, and by adopting a uniform set of text books throughoat the colony. A Christchurch resident communicates to the Star confirmation of the confession of F. P. Williams, who accused himself of stealing £2000 from Joshua Vines on the Victorian diggings. The affair happened at Creswick. Williams deposited in the bank a parcel of nails, lead, &c, instead of the gold that had been entrusted to him.