NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8651, 28 November 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS association telegrams.) AUCKLAND. November 27. The Ponsonby Naval Artillery have gone to North Shore for a fortnight's encampment and gun drill. WELLINGTON, November 27. . Messrs McMillan, Rhodes and Co., mer6hants, of Foxton, have issued a writ claiming,damages from tbe proprietor' of the ManawatU Standard for an alleged libel contained in a paragraph published in defendant's newspaper", referring to the disposal of the firm's stock as bankrupts' stock, whereas it was simply disposed of by tender. . At the inquest on the infant Knuckley, the medical evidence showed that the child died practically from starvation, but whether from inability to assimilate food or from the ; absence of food, the doctors could not s&y. The jury returned a verdict that the child died from exhaustion consequent on insufficient nourishment, but they made no imputation of neglect. The Woodville Farmers' Club has resolved to invite a conference of representatives of different farmers' clubs in the colony to consider matters "affecting agricultural DUNEDIN, November 27. At the Police Court to-day two young, men named William. Reid and John Dix were charged with maliciously wounding Charlotte Gallon. The latter was found in her house in an unconscious condition o.n Sunday with wounds about her head. As she was unable to appear a remand Was granted. Constable Fuller, North Dunedin,- died of .congestion of the lungs.