NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■•- The criminal sessions /, of the Supreme ■\ Court• were continued yesterday. The jury ' disagreed in one case, and a new trial ■ was ordered. «:. '- -.",/.■'

Constable Hampton, of Epsom, has resigned, and s Constable G. Wales, .of Onehunga, lias been promoted to the charge of the" Epsom station. •"• '■■■ .•*. .The charge of murder against Alice Sf»rah Williamson, who is alleged to have caused the death of Mrs. Ahlgren at Henderson, . will be heard in the Supreme Court to-day. '...;,':■

Reporting at Waihi at eight o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. H. B. Devereux, F.R.M.S., . stated that easterly winds increasing might be expected, and heavy rain in the Bay of Plenty districts within 24 hours. ■

The hearing of the divorce suit William Henry Paterson versus Mabel' Kathleen Paterson and C'ustav Kronfeld was commenced at the Supreme Court yesterday before His Honor Judge Edwards and a jury of 12.

'The Timaru Borough Council proposes to 'ask the ratepayers to sanction a loan of £10,000 (additional to £36,000 already ispent) to complete the drainage scheme, and also £5000 to purchase a quarry and plant.(Press Association.)

The members of the British Parliamentary party arrived in Auckland by the Makura from Vancouver yesterday. They were accorded a civic reception in the council chamber at the Town Hall, and in the evening left for Rotorua.