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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 44, 16 January 1883, Page 2

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INTERPROVINCIAL.

(united press association.) Auckland, January 13. Tbe city suburbs are suffering from want of water, and m the consequence Mewm.irket contemplates joining the city to get advantage of the water supply. The police are making raids on Bly gro;? selling establishments. At a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers Association, a strong complaint was made as to the difficulty of complying with the law as regards prohibitory orders, owing to the rii Kculty of indentifying persons prohibited from getting liquor. Negotiations are stated to have been concluded for the amalgamation of the Auckland Stud Company with the Pedigree Stock Company. The City Council have imported a fire-boll from Sheffield which can be heard seven miles off. Thirty-five persons are now awaiting trial at the Supreme Court sessions, and i when the list of country cases is m, it U expected there will be 40 altogether. Five omnibuses have bsen engaged to take the lot, with an oscorfc, to the session of the first day, as it is not known against whom the grand jury will first return true bills. This will be a criminal procession, the like of which has not been seen before m Auckland. Jan. 15. Four seamen of the ship Tamenoth, which arrived to-day from London, have been arrested for broaching cargo on the passage. Sergeant Martin - and Detective Strathearn continued their search m the steamer for the plants of the late jewellery robbery on board that vessel. Further deposits were discovered m the bilge water m the shaft tunasl. There ia still £300 worth uudiscovered. The wheat crop is taming out splendidly *n districts near to Auckland, realising on many farms, 40 bushels to the acre. Oama.ru, Jan. 13. There was a special parade of volunteers yesternight, for tha purpose of enrolling mpu under the new regulations. Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, there was a large turn out. Forty eight took the oacb m the Artil>» lery and fortysseven m the Rifles, and there are many others yet bo be sworn m for both corpa. Together with the Garrison Band, the town justice were last night kept going for two hoard enrolling men. Blenheim, Jan. 15. The body of the- chili drowned m the Opawa River a week ago, has been re« covered m an advanced state of decomposition. At the inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. Chbistchurch, Jan. 15. The criminal calendar contains fifteen cases of the usual sort. A rumour is current that Messrs Robinson and Lance intend to proceed against the stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club summer race meeting for the recovery of stakes of the Midsummer Two-year-old Handicap, on the greund that they were* improperly awarded to the owners of Helena. The handicap was a sweepstake of 10 soys with £200 added. The Harbour Board have given their Engineer, Mr Napier Bell, a present of £250, m recognition of h»s services m connection with the dock. The Board is favourable to the establishment of a Humane Society for the colony. The Board is going to distribute two hundred photographs of the opening ceremony, as a means of advertising the dock. Dunedin, January 13. A. four-roomed cottage at Kaikorai, owned and occupied by Whale, the captain of the local fire brigade, was totally destroyed by fire. Whale wa a much burned. He was residing with his iamily there. The house was insured for £250 m the Victorian Office. The Dauphin has been scratched for all engagements at the D. J.C. Autumn Meeting. Jan. 15. A man named W. E. G. Heaith waa arrested to*»day on a charge of committing a criminal assault on Lucy Brown, aged eight years, at West Tai>*ri, on the 3rd iustant. He was brought up at the City Police Court this afternoon, and remanded till to-morrow afternoon. The man Bewley, for a similar oifence committed on a girl twelve years of age, near the Botanical Gardens, has been committee for trial. Mr Carew, R.M., delivered an important and carefully considered jnds*H ment to-iay on a quest'on of imprisonment for debt. He saw many plaintiffs come into Court asking for ordei s of imprisonment against defendants, who evidently misapprehended toe meaning of the Act m regard to the means which a defendant must be proved to have of day ing- He said he took it to be the policy ofythe imprisonment for Debt Act that no person should be imprisoned for debt m the absence of fraud, and he interpreted the words " sufficient means and ability to pay " to mean over and

auove wh'tt is reasonably necessary for the support and maintainnece of the debtor and his wife and family, if he has any. This afternoon two lads employed m a butchcra' shop at Port Chalmers had quarrelled about a knife, It ended m one named White dtiving it through the thigh of the other, • named harnock. White was arrested and expresses Borrow for hi* haMy acion.