INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11666, 28 September 1901, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PBa.UurntD Prbss Associatiok.]

WELLINGTON, September' 27. Argument was' heard in the Supreme Court in the case Moore and others v. the Public Trustee. This is a claim for pensions out of the fund raised after the Brunner disaster, and which had been stopped on plaintiff's remarrying. Mr Guinness, for the plaintiffs, claimed that the provisions of the deed under which the Trustee acted had not been complied with, as the Board had not been consulted. Judgment was deferred.

Thomas Bould was fined £2O at the Magistrate's Court on two charges of sly grog-selling at Johnsonville. NAPIER, September 28. • A record number of entries has been received for the A. and P. show, totalling 1,436, or 134 more than last year. Tho principal increase is in sheep and cattle.

WANGANUI, September 28. A smart arrest was made by Detective Bishop last evening of a man named Sydney Hunter, who was "wanted" on a charse of stealing £BO from Alexander Peebles at Manaia on Thursday. The local police were informeu at nine o'clock last evening that Hunter had. entrained a horse and come on to Wanganui. Immediate search was made, and twenty minutes after the time that the detective had been informed that Hunter had first left the stables he ran down the street and overtook him just as he was about to cross the bridge. The detective seized the reins of the horse while cantering. A struggle ensued, but Hunter was overpowered. On being searched £SO was found on him. He had bought the horse, saddle, bridle, and cover with part of the money he had stolen. He was brought up at the Police Court this morning and remanded to Hawera.

HAWERA, September 28. Alexander Peebles, the man from whom £BO is alleged to have been stolen by Hunter, who was arrested in Wanganui, was the plaintiff in an action for damages against the Normanby Athletic Club at the last sitting of the District Court. The £BO represented the amount of damages, which had been handed over to him by his solicitor on the day of tho theft.