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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10625, 2 June 1897, Page 3

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(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION!) Auckland, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court criminal sessiono, i in oharging the Grand Jury, his Honor eald that the number of Indiotments to ba presented before them on the present oooaalon wob unusnally large ; in fact he believed tho number was greater than 16 had ever been since his appointment to that offioa— that) was the nnmber to be dealt with at oue sitting, Frank Har» OOUrb Aohmsn pleaded guilty to having attempted to commit suicide. His Honor said priooner had been already two months In prison, and he hoped he had received a lesaon. Ii It, had been unused throngh drluk he (his Eonor) strODgly advised him aoS to touch drink again, He woutd enter Into bis own reoogniefmoe of £25 to onma np far sentience when called npon. At the annna! mootlDg of the Licensing Bench to«doy Mr Colter, solicitor, presented a petition o'snod by 44 hotel, kfipporn Jn tho clky ashing the Bench to extend the bonr of bloslnc botelß at night from 10 O'olock to 11 o'olock. Inspeotor Hickeon said he was taken nnawaree, bat on principle wa» opposed to grsntlDg the concession. Id waa decided by four votes to nne to refnao the application. News from Te Whuitl is thab Mr Eludoa Beet has made an interesting discovery of moa bones in the bush near Tarapoannmu. Tho banes are much decayed, and were lying at the base of a rlniu true. New Plymouth, Tuofiday. A youug man narued Jaraea Telfar haa been mlealng from Urenul since Saturday. Search p^rfcten ere out. bat grave fears are felt for his safety. The dairy produce erported from New Plymouth daring April was valued at £10,000, making a total of £206,000 for the season, exclusive of large quantities sold within the colony. Wellington. Tuesday. Mr Jelllooe, of Wellington, haa been retained to appear for Mrs Devlin, formerly of the West Coaet, in a caao whloh ahe la bringing in the Supreme Court, Auckland, against the Walhl-Sllverton Gold Mining Company to recover £1000 damngea for the loss of her buaband, who was killed by a blow-oat shot) in the ootnpnny'tj mine at Walhi. >Vith tho view of introducing New Zealand coal Into the South African rairket, Captain Holm, of tho baiqne 6. M. Tucker, baa arranged to ship some 150 tona of the Weatport Coal n 'impany'a Coalbrookdale coal for Capetown by hia veßßel, which leaves Wellington on Thursday. Inspeotor Doyle reports that the deaths from typhoid fever In Wellington have been reduced from 20 in 1894 to fonr in 1596 The figures are lees satisfactory aa regards consumption and cancer, the former showing a (Jecreaso from 37 in 1890 to 32 In 1896, and tho latter an inorease from 17 to 54, He strongly urges the establishment of pnblio abattoirs, tho inspection and stamping of meat, and the total abolition of piivato slanghterhonass, Beefton, Tneaday. A now arrival, giving tho name of tfrazer, has been ooramittsd to the Hokltika Innnbic iwylum, He was under the hallooin<4t,iou that two inon—onß a dootor — hr.d mcßmetlc lnflneßce over him, and that ho was completely at their mercy. I Hb deelar. d duoy bsd followed him from ! Napier to Anokland, whither ho jonr- ' noyed on foot to eeonpa them, and retaroed by tho King Country to Napier and ehlopod from there to here. He is ; about 30 years of ege, and a native of Scotland. Dunedin, Taosday. Afc the criminal sittings Alfxander vYliilams, far honee-brenking, got six months. Thomas Barrett, who bad been reprieved while aervlng a oeotenoa of ten year°, on the ple» of HindnuHO, was sentenced to three yoara lor hoaeebreaking, LATER. Tbo Chief Jnotloa has forwarded £25 to the Free Public Library fnnd. Mr C. A. Piper, who la leaving Dnnedln to assume tha position of traflio manQper at Ureymontb, was presented to-day with a pnrse of 60 oovoroigas by the business people of the city, The Dunedin Presbytery to-day connldnred tho oace of. John Kylfy, and having received a report from the com* rnlttee nu tha subject, declared that Kyley bed ceuced to bo and v.aß no longer a minister of tho Church. In the Supreme Court James B'ue, for burglary and ncsanlt, waß sentenced to fonr yeare 1 imprisonment. William M'Kay, George Kltby, and John LWdle were acquitted on a chcrgo of stealing from a dwelling.