TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7159, 6 September 1894, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

Captain Edwin wired at 3 30 p m.: - "South to east and north-east heavy gale, heavy rain, heavy sea, very high tidea after sixteen hours from now ; glasa fall."

We regret to record the death of Mr John Nesbitt, second son of Mr Henry Nesbitt, of Napier, at the age of thirty-one years. Deceased was formerly on the staff of ibis journal. He possessed special gifts for sketching, some of his work being remarkably original and clever. A few yeais ago he left Napier for Auckland, but returned about a fortnight ago, then in the last stages of consumption, to which he has now succumbed. The parents have much sympathy ia. their bereavement. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon.

The cafe against John Olareburt wae brought up again at the Magistrate's Court this mornng, when additional evidence was called to further strengthen the oase for tho prosecution.

The annual general meeting of the Union Bowing Club will be held in the Piovinoial Hotel to-morrow evening.

Attention is called to the postponement of the departure from Sydney of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company'e Rome, from Monday, 29 th October, to noon on Wednesday, 31st October.

A rather peculiar case oame on for beiring at the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs Sutton and Swan, J.P.'s. An old man of about seventy years of age, named John Harvey, blind and deaf, a resident of Taradale, was charged on the information of his wife with using threatening language towards her. The threat consisted in eayiDg that he would set fire to the house and burn his wife and family alive, because he bad an impression that they were always talking about hi* blindness and plotting to get rid of him. On account of his deafness it was difficult to make the defendant understand what ha was there for, but when the nature ef the charge was impressed upon him he uttered an expressive -'Ah!" which might have meani that it was trua, or it might not. The Bench conaidered it a case for medioal examination, and Harvey wae accordingly remanded for eight days.