TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 14100, 13 July 1898, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand [l’er Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 12 There is great dissatisfaction amongst the Auckland claimants for military land grants for services in the tie d during the Maori war at the report of the commissioner, and a meeting is ca'.h d to consider what steps shall betaken in the matter. At the Police Court John Oldbury pleaded guilty to selling cartridges to a native, The charge arose out of the recent Maori rising at Rawene and was laid under the Arms Act, practically in abeyance since 1885, but which the police are now instructed t o enforce, lhe police did not press for a heavy pem-I’y, and a fine of one shilling was inflicted. WELLINGTON, July 12. A two year old child named Ivy Robinson fell into a tire at her parents residence and was badly burnt. CHRISTCHURCH, July 12. This morning Al x. Galle ly, a farmer at Lincoln,went out shooting and when g tting through a fence his gun exploded and blew out his brains. OA MARU, JULY !2. Two lads, aged 16 and 12 sons of Mr Thos. iMcDonal 1 , manager of Corriedale estate, were orowned to-day in a waterhole in the Waiareka Creek which flowed close to the House. They were out in a Batbottom boat pulling about when it oaps'red and both sank in about 20 feet of water. The disaster was witnessed by two young ladies whose cries brought assistance in about ten minutes, .but the water was dirty and it was impossible to do anything in the way of rescue. The bodies remained in the water three hours, grappling irons having to be sent for to Ngapwa. It s supposed the coldness of the water paralysed the lads as both could swim. DUNEDIN, July 12.

Ata meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union a motion was passed “that in the opinion of ’jh’smeeting the licensing bill brought up by Mr Miliar is Sly to all ths interests of ternSupreme Court Louis Julius Harrison, hte Rabbi in Dunedin, was defendant in two actions, one at the SD * ta “ oe ° f Bank of New South Wales for L3OB, the amount of an overdraft promised to be provided for when defendant left the colony, ostensibly on a holiday-in July f last j; m the other, by the National Bank, for LB3B, as guarantor of Aaron Earnest Roseman. In each case judgment went by default. The defendant is in England. Edward Druifif was discovered this morninz in the museum reserve with a bullet wound in his head and died this evening. Druiff was 25 years of age,and had been in the colony about nine months. He had been employed by a firm but was out of work for ®ome time, and had been in a very desponcontinues to do damage to the sandhills almost daily between the Central Battery and St. Claw.