LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1155, 23 October 1880, Page 2

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WELLINGTON. This Day. At the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, an application was made on behalf of the Law Society for rule absolute to strike off the rolls a solicitor, named 0. Madden, of Palmerston North, on the ground of alleged misappropriation of money belonging to a client. The case was adjourned for a week. Some few days ago a young man, •■ named Edward Fearon, was found early in the morning hanging by his hands from a window sill of the upper floor of a house and was making a good deal of noise and had a knife in his hand. After medical examination he was placed in the lunatic asylum. He had been preparing for examination as a solicitor, and the mental strain caused by over work had temporarily deranged him. While at the asylum the judges arrived at a decision after examination of his papers that he had passed successfully, and the Chief Justice went to the asylum and informed him of it. He had then evidently recovered, and yesterday on a certificate of medical men was discharged. AUCKLAND. This Bay. At the E..M. Court yesterday, before Mr. Barstow, the case of Mervyn Stewart, charged with refusing to support an illigitimate child of Constance Johnson, of which he was the putative father, came on again for hearing. Constance Johnson deposed, that she had been in service in the house of Vesey Stewart at Katikati, where she met Mervyn Stewart, who was in the habit of visiting her in her bed-room by night. He knew she was a married woman, but he said if anything happened she should be divorced from her husband and he would marry her. He gave her a written acknowledgement that he was the father of the child, and would do all he could towards its support. The letter to that effect was read. Mr Barstow said Stewart's letter was evidence, but in the absence of corroborative proof he could make no order. The case was dismissed. The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand, was held yesterday. The report stated the net profits to be £76,152, and the balance brought forward £22.125, making a total of £98,337. The following appropriations were recommended : dividend 10 per cent per annum, £50,000 ; bonus, at 5s per share, £25,000 ; balance to profit and loss, new account, £23,337. The report and balance sheet were read. CRRISTCHURCFT. This Day. At an inquest on the body of the man, named Pearce, who died from the effects of a shot wound in the knee received on the bank of the river Avon, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that there was no evidence to show who inflicted the wound.