Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 187, 3 December 1896, Page 4

Interprovincial News.

It is roported that a Maori named (irahain left Mercury Island for Kuaoturm on the 21st ult., and has not .-inoe been heard of. lie is supposed to be drowned. At a meeting of delegates to the N» \v Zealand Amateur Athletic Association held at Christcliurch yesterday. a letter was read from Auckland asking that the date of the championship meeting be iixed for February 10 and 18, also asking permission to hold handicap events and bicycle races. The requests were granted. At the Dunedin Supreme Court yesterday Henry M'Coll was found guilty of committing an indecent assault in a train while passing through the Caversham tunnel; sentence was deferred. In the Wellington Divorce Court yesterday the decree in the case of "]'><.dingiield v. Fedingfield was made ab-olute. Dorothy Schultz applied for a divorce from Frank Schultz, a fireman on the grounds of cruelty and adultery. A decree ni*i was granted. Tohmass Judd, of Fetone, petitioned for a divorce from his wife Elizabeth on the ground of adultery with one I'>artz. who had been divorced from his wife on account of his adultery with respondent. A decree ni.-i was granted- Another Fetone case was that in which Ellen Curtis, Avife of Vi'illiam Henry Curtis, sought a divorce ou the grounds of adultery. The parties were married at Wanganui ia 1886. A decree nisi was granted,