NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 129, 30 November 1899, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

o Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright November 27. The Supreme Court; was occupied to-day with the case in which William John Pearce and hi? wife, Virginia Mary Pearce, claimed from the Crown £2000 and £1500 dam g •» for injuries sustained by Mrs Pearce in the Rakaia accideaf. The jury awarded Mrs Pearce £1500 and her bus'baml £1000. Nelson, November 29 The Nelsou Agricultural Show to-day was a pronounced success. Tbe attendance was 6000, aid tbe Rutries were more numerous than in former years. Stock generally showed satisfactory improvement. Wellington, November 29 Mr Fisher, addressiug an open air meeting to niwlifc. announced ttiafc he 1 had been chosen as the third Govern- ', ment candidate for tbe City. '■ A decree nisi was granted in the case of Howe v. Howe, wife's petition. The 'husband was recently committed to the \ Asylum, and the wife said that though married six years, he had never done a [ stroke of work or given her any food or ' clothing. ; Dunedin, November 29. 1 Tbe Hon. John McKenzie was the \ only candidate nominated for Waihemo, ' and is therefore the new member for \ the district. This is only tbe second - time in bis career that be bas bad a ' walkover, tbe previous occasion being ' for tbe Provincial Council. 1 . At the Supreme Court, ..Catherine \ Ashton, charged with conducting an | illegal operation, was found guilty, and sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment. His Honor said the offence was an ex- ' ceedingly serious one, and he was afraid, i from wbat had come out in evidence. '■ that it was not the only occasion on which tbe accused bad been guilty of a ■ similar practice. i Hawera, This Day. ' F. Maguire (Opposition) D, L. Astbuyy, 1 (Independent Liberal) C, E. Major (Mini isterialist) were nominated for the Hawera seat.