WITNESS JUBILEE NUMBER, 1898.

Otago Witness, Issue 2262, 8 July 1897, Page 38

WITNESS JUBILEE NUMBER, 1898.

Information received about — Ship Jura, from Mr Andrew Affleck, Waikouaiti. Ship John Phillips (arrived at Nelson 1535), from Mr W. H. S. Roberts, Oamaru. Barque Maori, from Mr Richard Maguire, Waipapa. Carnatic (1852), from Mr Frederick Ford Twemlow, Tisbury. Ship Mariner (1850), from Mr B. B. Twelftree, Berwick. Ship Staine's Castle (1852), from Mr Alexander Cameron, Patearon. Ship Strathmore (ISE6), from Mr T. S. Nicol, Limehills. Ship Maori (3852), from Mr John Andrew, Taieri. Philip Laing, from Mr Andrew Gils Watson, North- Kast Valley. Barque Dolphin (1854), from Mrs Lemon, Oamaru. Ship John Wycliffe (IS4S), from Mr Richard Fry, Waikouaiti. Ship Pikebe Dukiiar (1850), information from Mr John Shaud, Centre Bush. Ship Stkathfikldsaye (185S;, information from a South T'Vkomairiro resident. Mr W H. S. Roberts, Oamaru, has kindly supplied us with a. lot of valuable information re pioneer ships and their passengers. [Information will be acknowledged in this column as received.]

The Hastings Standard gives currency to a rumour that the libel action of the Hon. J. G. Ward against the Napier Telegraph has been settled oub of court. A man named Louis Doyle, a commercial traveller, was committed for trial at Wellington on Friday on a charge of stealing a bicycle. The machine was taken out of the ante-room of one of the clubs in broad daylight, and was sent by the accused to an auctioneer. Within a few minutes it was recognised by a gentleman who had sold it only a few weeks previously, and the owner was promptly sent for. Doyle's story was that it was given him by a man named Evans. The same prisoner, who has been drinking heavily, was lately sentenced to a month for obtaining money under false pretences by menus of. a valueless cheque*