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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1247, 23 January 1896, Page 22

A correspondent has asked us for _ some information on a point alluded to in Mr Hamilton’s paper on “ Sheep Parasites ” recently published in the Mail. We have forwarded the query to Mr Hamilton with a request for a reply. M. Floquet, the well-known French statesman, is dead. The vessels in port on Monday lowered their flags to half-mast as a mark of respect to the memory of Mr W. H. L. Hinsoli, formerly night-watchman and signalman on the Queen’s Wharf, who died on Monday morning. Deceased was 49 years of age. At the Magistrate's Court on Monday, before Mr Martin, S.M., George Wm. Jackson was sent to gaol for three months as a habitual drunkard. Alfred Potts, who was in a bad state from the effects of drink, was remanded for medical treatment, and .Nellie Nelson was fined 10s, or 48 hours in default, for drunkenness. John Lunn, who had been remanded on a similar charge for medical treatment, was fined ss, with 10s expenses. James Ryan was charged with being about to leave Wellington without providing for the support of his unborn illegitimate child. The informant did not appear, but His Worship remanded the accused in order that the Benevolent Institution Trustees might he communicated with. Hugh Cameron and Gaetano Russo were charged on remand with the theft of a quantity of candles, tobacco and butter from the wreck of the barque Halcione under circumstances already described. Inspector Pender prosecuted, and Mr Skerrett appeared for Cameron, and Mr Haselden for Russo. Mr Skerrett urged that if His Worship decided to convict this was a case that might be dealt with by a fine. His Worship, however, dissented from that view, and, counsel assenting, both accused were committed for trial. Cameron was admitted to bail in two sureties of .£25 each, and Russo in two of ,£lO or one of .£2O. A charge against Frederick Huxtable of obtaining money by false pretences was dismissed, Mr Skerrett, who appeared for the informant, saying he did not think there was any evidence against the accused. William John Stevens was further remauded until Monday on a charge of causing actual bodily harm to James C. Mailman, who will then be able to appear. On a charge of perjury Peter Stephens, for whom Mr Jellicoe appeared, was remanded to Friday. Mr Haselden appeared for the prosecution.