COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8581, 1 June 1891, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

1 , . „ J r i: m * 11® i 1 [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.J |B ,«! -M - ' Hamilton, Saturday?.- 'V f 1 Some little excitement was occasioned yej. M terday evening by some person, ovideutb " • ffi insane, collecting a crowd in the main street.'' ' - ! praying and addressing it on religious malr'/*'"' - f ters. After a short time, however, the ; I citement was intensified when t Conitt&j • 1 Berriman rode f hastily into' the town i arrested the preacher, who turned out to be " -fi a Whatawhata sett irie xuiuied 1 Richard ;£ah ■* It - appears that Constable Berriman had V'Sl ridden out to Whatawhata : during the after-lpiS noon! and ; arrested ; Mr. ; Esh on a charge of lunacy, and that riding in together to Hamil- 1 ton his prisoner had given him the slip and ,-1 gallopedT into Hamilton, and knowing t the 1 road better than his captor, arrived some - • half hour before him. ;He was taken to the ft lockup. - ' r g ißfi gSflnspector Emerson returned-yestettn^9 from his tour of inspection of f.he new paitof S his district lying in the direction of Napier. m Amongst the ; passengers by the train yes- f§ terday was Dr. Cole, who supplies Or. 1 Kenny's duties at the hospital during the * /H month of June. - "' 'vj» 1 - ' Cambridge, Satuday, '- 1 Great satisfaction was expressed by the V' l -' 1 natives yesterday when it was announced in 1 the Land Court here that the 'Govertio* S?J I would be recommended to cancel Judgj | Puckey's suspension from office. - ' " | Oiiaupo, Saturday.' . ' I ;V. A meeting will be held , immediately after | Tuesday's sale to make arrangements for a * I season of the Pakuranga hounds in Waikato.- I ' ' t Huntly, Saturday. •t 1 A charge of trespassing on the railway line'v! has .been laid against Mr. ; Hatton, and is for V'- 1$ hearing on Monday, :v when' Captain Jackson : I' will give judgment in the Huntly mining f'W' m cases.'.' < '• .If 1 ; .i • -j jtrji Raglan, Saturday. ■t| ■i The contracts for; cutting and falling boaii fe at the Te Akau run have been taken as fol- 7 i lows:W. i Davis,: 23s per' acre; Petty 'audi 4' 1 Noon, 31s' per acre ; M." Galvin, 8 Johnstone Bros., 32s 4d ; a Thornton and Co, - i 265; Crossley Bros., 29s (3d per„ acre; 800 1 acres are yet unlet. . The above several eon.' J B tracts comprise about 3000 acres, which t'; 11 should ; make ..^vorkjfor; hands in the district S plentiful during.the present winter. " r , B