TELEGRAMS

Southland Times, Issue 12730, 14 October 1893, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

(Pee Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 13. An'elderly man named George - Brad bin, a carpenter from Tairua, was travelling on a train without a ticket and was put off at Morrinsville. He then walked on the line and was overtaken by an engine and knocked off by the cowcatcher. Both his arms are broken. WELLINGTON, Oct. 13. The date for the payment of the land tax is fixed for 7th December. In the Supreme Court the proprietor of the Victoria Hotel, Petone, appealed against a conviction by the B.M. for damage to a foothpath ; the existence of a cornice on the premises causing rain watei to drop on the path and wear it away. His Honour said that he was of opinion that under section 240, subsection 77, of the Municipal Corporations Act an act had been', disclosed and that the erection of the cornice could not.be justified. He agreed with the finding of the Magistrate that an offence had been committed, but thought the defendant had been hardly used. The conviction was affirmed, but the penalty was reduced from L 5 Is to Is, the defendant to pay costs. .... - ; .W. Hall- Jones (Timaru), F. J. Smith ; (Cheviot), and J. G. Ward (Invercargill) are appointed Justices of the Peace. Mr H. 1 Seth Smith is gazetted Chief Judge of the Native Land Court. The Gazette notifies that the public offices 'in Otago will be closed on Demonstration Day (October 28). A bonus of L2 per ton will be paid on 100 tons of starch manufactured in the colony in each of the years 1894 and 1895. The immigration and emigration returns for the colony during September show the arrivals to have been 1381—from the United Kingdom, 268; New South Wales, 595; Victoria, 376; Tasmania, 64 ; other places, 79. Departures 612—t0 the United Kingdom, 100 ; New South Wales, 303; Victoria, 132; Tasmania, 29 ; other places, 48. Thirteen Chinese arrived and 14 left. , r . CHRISTCHURCH, Cot. 13. Deputations of citizens waited on the committee of the Chamber of Commerce with ' regard to the state of the volunteer, force ' and a resolution was passed by the com- - mittee regretting the inaction of the Government in not giving due consideration or effect to Colonel Fox’s report and urging the Government either to reorganise the force or abolish it altogether. ,/W. T. C. Mills, late clerk of the Heath- ' cote vßoad Board, has been committed for trial bn several charges of embezzlement. OAMARU, Oct. 13. Elizabeth Jane Johnston, 3 years of "age,

residing at Alma, was burned to death today. Her mother had gone out to milk the cows and the child got out of bed and going to the fire her nightdress caught fire and she was so badly burned that she died about four hours afterwards.