NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10263, 4 February 1899, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND.

|>K-£S ASSOCIATION- Tl-::.*au_\ «..-,.) WELLINGTON, February _. Amongst the cases set down for hearing at the Civil {Sittings of the Supreme Court is au action for £1000 damages against a Wellington doctor for alleged unskilful treatmeat. The man Clements has been committed for trial for maliciously wounding a woman named McKeima with a tomahawk. - A man named Wirt. Hamington, living at Petone, went home drunk last- night, quarrelled with his family, and threatened to do lor them, lie turned his wife out, and then cut his throat in six places, and when the police arrived he accused lus son of doing it. it is expected that he will recover. iiie _rade_' Council has decided to urge upon the Minister of Labour the necessity of establishing a Government tailoring establishment. REEFTON, February 3. A man named John Mitchell was arrested last night on two charges of having an interest in an illicit still at Aiiiky uully in Octooer last, and in a still found recently in connection with which, the man Jensens was convicted. Accused has been remanded. WANGANUI, February _. . The Waaiganui Regatta. Committee has allocated £&U for the regatta, to be held on March 2nd. The principal prizes are: — Senior Fours, £20; Clinkers, £14 j Junior Fours, £13; Clinkers, £10. A German named Ernest Reuben was thrown from his trap --esterday on to _ds head, with the result that his .neck was broken. He was aged 61. At the Hastings Ram Fair on Thursday, the Loan and Mercantile Company topped the market with Mr Wm. Wilson's stud Lincolns, 51 guineas, and Miss Watts's flock of Lincolns, Y^.guineas. Both are Wanganui breeders. DUNEDIN, February 3. The Women's Franchise League Executive has passed a resolution urging the Minister of Justice to institute an inquiry immediately into the miscarriage of. justice arising out of the recent assault case at the North East Valley, heard before two Justices, and asking the' Minister to order that eases of assaults on women and children be tried only by a stipendiary "magistrate. "INVERCaRGILL, February 3. ■ At a meeting of the guarantors of the proposed Exhibition to-night, the project was allowed to drop ingloriously, a motion being unanimously'passed that it was premature.