NEW ZEALAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 243, 13 October 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

Wellington, October 11.

A man named Joseph Valentine Bourke, who was under a warrant of commitment to New Plymouth Gaol for disobeying an order of the Court, jumped off the Manawatu Company's train near Shannon this morning, but was captured after a chase for a mile or bo.

Wanganui, Ootober 12.

At the Supreme Court William Noble and Harry Laing were charged with stealing £239 from Joseph Abbott. Several witnesses were examined for the prosecution, -The only new point adduced militated against the Grown, showing that the accused had expressed their intention of going to Upokongaro before they knew, so far as the evidence showed, that Abbott was going there with the money. No evidence was called for the defence. Mr Coatea, in addressing tbe jury, relied on the great laok of evidence, all of whioh was circumstantial, and Mr Hogg followed in a similar strain. The Judge's summing up occupied half an hour, and the jury retired at six o'clock, returning at nine with a verdict of Guilty againßt both prisoners. Sentence was deferred till Wednesday morning. Ghbistohuboh, Ootober 12,

Mr W. B. B. Cox, M.P. for Glare, addressed an audience of about 400 in the Oddfellows' Hall to-night on Irißh evictions. The Mayor presided, and a oolleotion on behalf of the evioted tenants realised about £30. He will not deliver further lectures in this colony.

Invbeoabgul, October 12. The Southland Hospital Trust have decided to apply to the Government for £2500 to build additional rooms to the Hospital, Dr M'Gregor having reported that the oldest part of the present structure, besides being badly ventilated and inconveniently arranged, ia surgioally insanitary, an opinion whioh the resident surgeon endorse?, stating thai he has difficulty in treating surgical oases. A disease among well watered sheep is prevalent in the western disfctiots. The animals die within an hout of the . attack. The disease appears identical with that re* ported from Sangitikei. . .