WAIKATO NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 18 January 1905, Page 5

WAIKATO NOTES.

( 3y Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. At the Xgaruawahia Court yesterday Wi McCredie. of Huntly, was fined £.1 and costa (£2 13/) for assaulting Henry Peckham with a bayonet. The evidence showed that after a military oanquet the defendant mounted in irreirular guard, and, after challenging plaintiff, inflicted slight wounds witn fi bayonet. Edward Murphy was charged with obscene language, but the ohurge was dismissed on the ground that the language was not used in a public olace. The magistrate regretted that the irregularity prevented his committing to prison. Nothing but the cat could appeal to a man so debased as to α-o to a settler's place and insult a woman, as Murphy had done. Murphy was fined £2 and costs for supplying liquor to a Maori woman. Geo. Starr, of >7garuawahia, on two charges of breaches of the Slaughtering Act, was ; convicted and fined £. 2 and costs on each charge. At Putaruru yesterday a man named Whorskei. employed by McLean Bros., had two ribs broken by a fall of earth. The Oountess of Onslow, who haa been the guest of the Hon. Geo. McLean at Warrrngton, left Duiiedin for the lake district on Saturday. She woes to Reef con and Nelson by way of Otira Gorge, and returns from Auckland to Sydney, joining the Oratava at the end of February on her Homeward