Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 193, 10 December 1896, Page 2

Interprovincial News.

♦ (/Vr I'irxx Ansoriati'.m.) A large property sale of the assets of the Realisation Board was held at Auckland yesterday, consisting of business premises in the city and suburbs and 108 building allotments in the Surrey Hills estate. Satisfactory prices were realised. The late Sir F. Whitaker's residence, Lake Takapuna, 23 acres, £'ss per acre ; Owen and Graham's old Queen-street premises, on lease till 2058, ,£6185. A number of purchasers are in treaty for various lots at the reserve prices, so the sale is regarded as very successful and as showing that investors have confidence in the future of Auckland.

Lady Glasgow will leave Wellington on the loth inst. for a trip upon Auckland waters for the benefit of her health. In order to allow the Governor and Lady Glasgow and family to make the trip the new Government steamer Tutanekai will be placed at their disposal, and the trip will occupy three weeks. Major Pole Penton, the new commandant, has been granted local rank of colonel. Mr Justice Edwards delivered judgment yesterday in the divorce suit of Martin v. Martin, heard last week, in which the petitioner, Frederick Martin, plumber, sought foi; a divorce from his wife, on the ground of alleged misconduct with William Ridgeway of Carterton. His Honor, in the course of bis judgment expressed the opinion that the letter which petitioner had produced as having been written by bis wife, in which she apparently admitted her misconduct but asked to be taken back, was a forgery. He dismissed the suit, allowing £2-5 and disbursements as costs to respondent, and £lO to the co-respondent, Ridgeway. Thtletters produced in Court were ordered to be impounded.

At the Christchurch Police \ ourt yesterday William Longdin wa> tmod £5 and costs on a charge of conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace at a Prohibition meeting held in Cathedral Square last week, where defendant had driven an express through the crowd. A number of men with blackened faces were in the vehicle shouting and singing. The Dunedin Supreme Court was occupied yesterday with a charge of perjury preferred against a young man named Edward Sheath. The case arose out of a sly-grog prosecution recently at Tapanui. According to a constable, Sheath gave him certain information and signed the statement. In court Sheath denied having signed the statement. Yesterday a witness gave evidence that Sheath was with him on the night in question and about the time he was supposed to be with the police constable. Officers from five banks, while not prepared to sweatthat the signature to the statement was not written by the same person as admitted signatures (produced) of Sheath, all declared they wvftfel not pay out on the signature to the statement. After a hearing, extending over two days, Sheath, charged with perjury ariiving out of a sly grogselling prosecution at Tapanui, was found not guilty.