" SERIOUS DEFALCATIONS."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5785, 25 November 1886, Page 4

" SERIOUS DEFALCATIONS."

A DET EACE MEETING. | PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTERS. I WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. Humours are current of uennus defalca- j -tions by the secretary of ari rnvestm_nt j •Society, but everything connect ?d with the .affair iB being kept very quiet. j A member of the D Battery, N.Z. ! Artillery, named Watty, is the first Volun- j tear transf erred to the Permanent Militia . wider the new regulations requiring four years' Volunteer service as a qualification. ■ "Hia Natural Life" is drawing large houses at the Opera House. The Epuni Licensing Committee will only grant one licenae, and that to a partacular publican, for booths at the Hutt Pak-k raceß. The Stewards of the Wellington Racing Club refuse to give this -publican a monopoly, so there is a deadlook, and the next race meeting will probably be a dry one. Three persons were fined to-day for not sending in Property-tax returns. It seems -there are a large number of defaulters. The names of all these are written on slips of paper, and the first three drawn from a hat are summoned as a warning to others. BLENHEIM, Nov. 24. The CaledonJ-n Society's annual concert 'this evening was a great success. KAITAUGATA MINERS. DUNEDm, Nov. 24. Three of the miner, on strike at Kaitangata—Contts, M'Minn and M'Vie— were to-day charged with various illegal acts calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. The case arose out of the recent demonstration against the manager. Contts was fined £1 and costs, and ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for six months, and the other two men wer« fined in similar snms. The fines were paid. ROBBERY OP LETTERS. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 24. F. H. Dale, letter carrier, was committed Jor trial on four charges of theft of lettera, -one of which contained three pounds, and soother a locket valued at £7 10s. A third was detained to avert suspicion.

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