LATE WIRES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7382, 4 June 1895, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

fPEE PEHS3 ASSOCIATION.!

CHEisrcnuECH, This day. At the Police C3urt this morning George Peck, charged with bigamy, was committed for trial. On a chargo of wife desertion tho same acoused was remanded. The Supreme Court was occupied to-day with the case of Williams v. Dombrain and others, a oluim for £2000 damages, for injuries sustainod in the switchback railway accident, by which plaintiff's leg was broken. Duhedis, This day. James Murdoch and Jane Barnes, convicted lai,t nijjht of robbery in a brothel, wero sentenced to two years. iNVHitCAEQiXL, This day. The American Transportation Commission arrived at tha Buff by the Talune today, and left by rail for the North. After inspecting the railway syatem thoy leave Auckland on the 13th inst. They are due in Hussia early in Saptember, travelling over three thousand miles of railway thero. The trip from start to finish lasts three years. New Plymouth, This day. A man giving tho namo of Henry Thompson, who-had one leg, was sentoncad to a month's imprisonment to-day for begging to get a cork leg. A list shown contained the names of persons as subscribing who did not know the man. Ho came fiom 'Frisco, via Auokland. An artificial log, belonging to the accused, was found packed in a box at Inglewood. For wet and cold weather — Ladies' waterproof cloaks, cloth jackets, capes, and ulste/s; alsj children's and maids' cloth jacket*, oapes, end mackintoshes. A largo assortment. Neal and Close's.