TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7194, 14 December 1891, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

Per United Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 13. The revenue so far received under the property tax is considered very satisfactory by the Department. The amount collected at the post offices throughout the Colony up to the 10th insfc., and at Wellington up to the 12th, is £195,858. The larger payments are not due till the second instalment on the 4th of Ftb-.uaiy next. In chambers to-day the Chief Justice granted a rule nisi calling upon District Judge Kettle to show cause why the order of committal against Mr Jellico for alleged contempt of court should not be quaßbed upon the grounds that he aoted without jurisdiction, that the matter alleged against Mr Jellicoe was not. oontempt, and that the District Judge was proßecutor in his own court, and disqualified by his own interest and rea.l bias from adjudicating, The rule also piOhibits the District Judge from proceeding further. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 12. The Premier arrived by express train last evening, and left for Auckland by the s.s. Takapuna this morning. A deputation waited on Mr Ballance and asked him to address a meeting on his return from Auckland, which the Premier consented to do, and Monday week was fixed upon as the date, CHRISTCHTJRCE, December 13. Mr Walter Jas. Aliver, grain merchant. formerly of R. Watkin & Co., died suddenlj on Saturday evening, it is sapposed frorr apoplexy. He had been to business in the morning. To-day's • Press ' says that it ha 3 reads enquiries as to the statement attributed bj a Press Association telegram to the Hod Mi Seddon withreference to the Midland Railway Company, in wbicb the Mirsisier 16 lepOlteC to have 68 id in referring to the locking up of land that the company bad ob tamed every acre to which it was entitlec to, but wanted to pick the oountij to such an extent as would not be con ducive to the interests of the Colony. Thi 1 Press ' says this appears to be opposite tothi fact, the real state of affairs being that thi Company is entitled under the oontract t< require the Government to sell or le any lands to intending settlers ii accordance with the survey regulations the Government have the right to reaeseoi the value of any particular land bo dealt wit! in relation to the value of the block o land within which it lies. This effectual^ prevents the country being pioked againß the interests, of the Colony, and whether i dM or not is a condition of contract and a tuch should be acted upon. Though thi present. Government ie supposed ta be an xiouito oreate settlement, they have effec tOilly looked np the lands in the westeri

districts for which the company has, we are informed, on their books applications amounting to over 50,000 aores in small sectionß, first by retai iig un works hU regulations for dealing V9itb dhese liuuie, «nd further than that Mr Saddon'has .hinifiulf stated that he will not allow the Company if he orb help it \ to deal with any of these applications until he is quite certain about mining reserves, tr The allegation which the Minister is Btated to 5* have made "That tbo Company had been allowed to remove a largo quantity of timber L from land not yet acqairttl," is absolntely mis- A leading, iho fact being that tbo timber the L Company has been exporting bas been bought by it from sawmillers, and that in paying for the r timbr the Company have been careful to t retain sufficient money to protect the Govern- t ment to the extent of the royaltiea due on such timber. DUNEDIK, a December 12. In tb.B Supreme Court to-day. James Neill n sued Pilling Bros, proprietors of the Tuapeka Times, for £500 damages for libel, which was contained in a paragrnph commenting on a y case in the B.M. Court, Dunedin, in which ft plaintiff's father-in-law, an aged man in destitute circumstances, successfully brought a maintenance snit against Mrs Neill. A - verdict was given for plaintiff for £25. a A dispute between the Vincent County r Council and the Cromwell Borough Counoil culminated yesterday in an attempt by the former body to prevent the Borough Council from carrying water pipes acroS3 tho new - Cromwell bridge. The County Counoil secured the assistance of the police from •> Clyde and of a number of station hands, while on the other hand the citizens of Cromwell mustered about 100 strong in support of the Borough Council, and the latter gained the day. WESTPOBT. December 13. The coal export for the week ended Saturday, was 3300 tons. J — — m— a— — wiiiiiiiim i.m |

The youngest married coupe in Connecticut, probably, dwe 1 in the little country hamlet of Sterling, ataoag the Windham hills. Th?y are Mr and Mra C. Former. He is 14 years and seven months old, and she istls years and four months. Dr. Hale Dillon, who h&s just passed the Alabama Btate B >ard of Medical Examicers, is the secord woman that has ever practiced in Alabama. She is colored i and ia to teach hygiene and anatomy in the metiioal oollege at Tuskegee. A correspondent tells the followingdog story in ' Nature' : — As I went to the train one morning, I saw a brown retriever dog coming full speed with a letter in his mouth. He went straight to the mural letter box. Ihe postman had just cleared the box, and was about 20 or 80 yards off when the dog arrived. Seeing him, the sagacious animal went after him, and had the letter transferred to the bag. He then walked home quietly. A revolting crime has been perpetrated in San Luis Obispo, California. Mf.rtin Hems disappeared last June, leaving no trace behind him. Within the last few days his clothing has been fouinl in a well, nnd fragments of his remains have alto beni discovered in a " hog wallow " near the slant? of a man named Gularte, for %vh- m 'm-. worked. The coroner's jury found that Heios was murdered by Gularte. It is F-aid that the evidence indicates that Galaita shot Hems in the back, and then chopped his b ■ 'y up. "CADBUIl 1 . CO- OA, A perfect food.''- IL-alth A French contemporary tells w curious story of a photographer's reveuge : " A Moldo - Wallaohian Prince — whatever thht may be — had his likeness taken by one of these scientific artists the other day, and was so dissatisfied wiih the unflattering result tbat he declined to pay for it. Thereupon the photographer had a large number of copies struck off, and offered them for sale as portraits of Tropmann. The success of the experiment was prodigious ; and the Moldo- Wallaohian Prince awoke one morning and found himself — or, more btriotly speaking, his portrait — infamous ! " The ' Woodville Examiner ' states that Captain Kennedy has selected a block of 9000 acres near Waikanui for a co-operative fruit growing settlement. Ihe land is to be cut up into 100-acre sections, and the Association will establish a sawmill on the block for cutting timber for the houses, and manufacturing fruit boxes, etc, a jam factory, fruit and vegetable canning and preserving factory, a fruit and vegetable drying and desiccating works. Each selector binds himself to plant and maintain at least five acres in orchard, and this will therefore give an assured minimum of 500 acres of orchard to the block. This season the Association is to throw down 1500 acres of bush in a continuous strip along the sections, so as to ensure a good burn this year. Then a small portion of each section wi'l be grubbed np for immediate use as a nursery. GOOD MORNING Have you used PEAR'S SOAP