TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 8060, 15 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

— + — . (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The negotiations between the borough i of Palmerston North and the Government Insurance Association for a municipal loan of L50,000 have fallen through. Waring Taylor has been sent to Ho kitika gaol, where he will serve his sentence. OHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The hearing of the charge of conspiring to defraud the Government, preferred against Thos. Hough and Robert Dudley, was concluded at the Supreme Court to* day. The defence endeavoured to be set up was that Dudley had dona the work for which it had been alleged he obtained pay meat wrongfully, at some other time than that entered by Hough in bis timebook and ledger. The prisoners were found " Guilty " and sentence was deferred till the eight similar cases against railway employes have been heard. TIMABU, Tuesday. -The Levels Road Board to-day resolved — " That this Board approve of the Government's proposals for subsidising local bodies as being the simplest and most effective mode of meeting the extra expesditure which cannot be raised from rates alone." DUNEDIN, Tuesday. An unoccupied two-storeyed house, Cargill street, owned by Mr McKechnie, was completely gutted last night. It was insured in the United office for L2OO, There is no cluo tu the origin of the fire. Advices have been received that some two tons of butter shipped to Sydney by the settlers on the Peninsula realised is 6d per Ib. i A deputation of the Temperance Com- j mittee of the Synod waited on the Board of Properly in reference to hotels on j Church lands. The Board explained that a clause used to be inserted is leases to \ prevent the building of hotels ; but as they had been informed the clause was not valid they had allowed it to drop out. They had since been sdvised that it was valid, and they would do their utmost to see the prohibitory clause was carried into effect. t C. Brensill, junr., of Lee Flat station, bad tb6 poiats of two of his fingers blown off by the bursting of his gun. The half-yearly dividend in connection with the Presbyterian Church sustentation fund has been declared at LlO6 4s 6d. Four candidates are in the field for Bruce— D. Reid, jun., James McDonald (a former member), W. Hutchison (late of Wellington), and J. C. Anderson.