WANGANUI ITEMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4838, 11 February 1887, Page 3

WANGANUI ITEMS.

ISrECIAI TO DAILY TELEGRATH.J

[OWX COBRESPOSDEST.-BY TELEGEATH.]

Wangantti, Last night THE CASE AGAINST DR CONNOLLY. The enquiry into tho charge against Dr Connolly for attempted outrage on a married Sommi lasted all c£y. The ««■ far all on one side, and to the effect tUat Sr's Pope called on the doctor for the purpose of consultation, when a conversat o took plane relative to miscarriages to which she was subject, and following Jm ■ *° doctor made au examination, and then, according to her story, committed the assault She acknowledges that though it Subr Connolly's own house she made Jo outcry or noise to get assistance. In she rather contradicted tfet Dr Connolly was going to examine her. S Th/ husband of the woman raiJed an objection, saying he preferred SfaSiould be clone in Wellington, but ultimately the Bench decided to give the ocal Sffinen half anapkin said to havebeen stained and other articles. In the renSer of her cross-examination Mrs Pope had to acknowledge having led a loose Me in past years, and to having been a prostitato in the streets of Wellington when seventeen years of age. She had been tomvn as Fanny Howard, had gone to tho Wcat Coast to reform but fell again and on her return to Wellington had lived with Pope some years before her marriage. She had had to consult doctors many times during the last five years for inflammation Pope's own evidence went to show that he had suffered from disease, and had consulted Dr Connolly f< t three months when Dγ Connollv told him he thought he had secondary symptoms. The case was ad?ourns at 5.30 till 11 to-morrow, when the medical evidence will be taken.

AMMUNITION TESTS. In the face of the continual complaints re Kynock's ammunition an examination of the weight was made carefully to-daj, Sen it was found that while in ten cartridgesthe contents of Kynoeke only varied as ass |r^r^e c caS| to. weigh nlike.