NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9176, 6 August 1895, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

— ■_■ (fRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, August 5. Inspector Hickson received a letter from the Chief Constable at Nottingham stating that he ia making enquiries into Evison's confession of the alleged murder at Nottingham, of a young woman many yeai*3 ago. Evison has withdrawn bis confessiou to The Auckland police. The authorities say there is no truth in it. PALiIERSTON NORTH, August 5. At, the District, Court, in the case of Mcies v Hubble, claim £300, damages for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter, judgment was, given for £100 aud costs*. WELLINGTON, August 5. A local resident, Mr A. S. Ford, has iuventad an enamel solution which renders match he*ds waterproof. The solution forms a gtaz. which is so tenacious that it is impossible fer a child to hurt itself by sucking the heads of vestas, and a wouldbe suicide could not accomplish his object by soaking them. The elections for the Railway Appeal Board cannot take place until after the 24th. The poll ha* to be prepared and objections heard in the usual manner, besides which, voting papers have to be sent to everyone entitled to vote and receipts obtained. This means that they will have to be haud-delivered in every district. On the whole it is not likely that the elections can be held this month. PATEA, August 5. The Maori woman Parati, who was assaulted by her husband on Friday night, died in the hospital on Saturday. As the : inquest a verdict of '* Wilful murder " against her husband was returned. I DUNEDIN, August 5. The body of an infant a month old, tied in a sack, was found at Rivcu3b>urne. I NAPIER, August 5. Sicca the death of Gerald Dowling, a prohibited person, from alcoholic coma, the j police made strenuous efforts to find out how he obtained drink. At last, through her own indiscretion, an inmate of a disorderly house, named Mary Miller Scott, was arrested and fined £4 and costs, while •ruder the agrant Act she was sent to gaol for three months. Mr Hugh Aplin, for twenty years organist at St. Paul's Presbyteriau Church, died last night. He was accorded a Masonic funeral to-day.