INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PM D*ti*Ei> 'ftusSS A&SbciAiltnr.] FJ&LDING, August 3. The Feilding. Choral Society gave a performance of 'Thfc CJrfeatidh' td a crowded house last night. The principal parts were taken by MisS Amy Murphy, of Dtihedin, Mr Leslie Hill, of Wellington, and Mr Byari, df Auckland, the whole affair being very successful:

-:,.. INVEROAEGILL, August 3; The Invercargill Borough Council have accepted 4-J per cent, debentures for 514,800, at a total premium of £232 i?s 6d. The sura tendered was £63,700. Ttte amount is required to redeem a 6 per cent, loan now due;

AUCKLAND, August 3. Mr Dyer, S.M., gate judgment to-day in the prosecution of Joseph Ambury, dairyman, charged with failing to cleanse his inilkeans within the- tints required by the regulations of the Dairy Industry Abt. The magistrate said that the question turned oh regulation 10, which provided that all cans in or about any dairy, shall b© thoroughly cleansed within four hours. The regulation did not state upon whom the obligation fell. He was not to hold that tie defendant was liable. 'His employees brought in milk, arid took the cans back to the farmers in an unwashed condition. JJo tioubt the- farmers had cleaned their cans, but more thitn four hours had elapsed. The Crotfn Prosecutor said that the matter was ao important that the regulation must be amended or tested in a higher court; He gave notice of appeal. CHRISTCHUHGH, August 3. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court open on Monday. Twenty-four persons will be charged, the offences alleged being indecent assault, assault with intent to do bodily liarm, robbery with violence (two cases), theft from a dwelling (two cases), forgery and uttering, perjury, murder, burglary [two cases), theft, and keeping a gaming-house. Ernest Hugh Coplestone, a- young mm, a tinsmith, shot himself this morning at his residence, Sydenham, His brother found him dead in the garden. He had been in bad health, and was in the doctor's handj for some tinn:, suffering from melancholia.

WELLINGTON; August 3. Eineat Mielsch, found giiilty of a grievous assault oh his wife, was "sentenced this afternoon to two years' imprisonment.