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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7995, 28 January 1887, Page 2

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, January 27. Mrs Jane Horne, who attempted to drown herself, has been committed for trial. At a meeting of the Grammar School Board of Governors to-day, it was resolved to take .tops for the recovery of amounts lost through the defalcations of the lato Sectetaty;, J. arid C. Gardiner’s KaipSfa Fruit, Meat, dnd Fish Canning Factory; Eomdkorihi, hSS been Hurried down: It Was insured in the Imperial for £Ssft , p . . The laud case Manaema vi Mo Arthur Has developed a proportionately groat , bill of oasts. The amount claimed on behalf, of the plaintiffs was £1591, but the Court of Fiji,’ by whom the bill was taxed, reduced the amount to £226, Dunedin, January 27. The taking of evidence in tho inquiry into the circumstances of the collision between the dredge and the Omapere was concluded to-day. Tho Magistrate and Assessors will visit the scene of the collision, and give judgment on Monday, Repairs to the dredge will coat £3OO or £4OO, in addition to t7OO or £BOO coat of raising her. At tho meeting of the University Connell Mr Macandrew gave notice that at next meeting he would move—“ That the affiliation of the Otago University to tho New Zealand University was a mistake, and had kept well-to-do settlers from granting endowments j that in the interests of higher education it is expedient the Otago University should resume its position as embodied in the Statute under Which it was - originally constituted ; and that application be again znade for the Imperial Charter under which degrees of the Otago University should be recognised throughout the Empire.” , At the Police Court the license issued to a prisoner under the Probation Act was cancelled for disorderly behavior, and the prisoner was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.

Fred. Ellis and ffm. Small have been committed for trial for highway robbery, and Thomas King, Charles Coleman, and Peter Hardy for robbery of a returned Kimberley digger, . At the meeting of the Charitable Aid Board yesterday,. after consideration of the Benevolent Trustees’ action in refusing to supply local bodies with a list of those re* ceiving relief, it was resolved to ask the trustees to reconsider their decision. The Mayor of South Dunedin said there were people in his borough receiving relief who were not entitled to it. Some of them were to be seen sending jugs to hotels, and some had money on deposit in banka, Mr Robin, the chairman, said he viewed with alarm the fact that now, in the summer months, there was a steady increase in the applications for relief. At the City Court Constable Fleming was charged with assaulting Mr Broad, a prominent member of the temperance party, who declares that, because after watching a woman leave the constable and enter an hotel after midnight, he remarked that publicans, policemen, and prostitutes were in league, the constable knocked him down and severely maltreated him. The complainant swears positively to the constable’s identity, but the defence is that Fleming was not near the spot. Later. Constable Fleming was to-day fined £3, with costs £2 12s (with the alternative of a month’s imprisonment) for assaulting a civilian by throwing him down and dashing his head against a clay bank, Napier, January 27. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yes. terday, George Smith was charged with playing an unlawful game at the recreation ground. Accused issued tickets in connection with a spinning wheel. The defence was that the game was not a lottery, as no money was deducted. Inspector Sullen contended that it was not a sweepstake in the meaning of the Act, as the result did not depend on an event or contingency relating to a horse race, or other race, fight,' game, sport, or exercise. The Resident Magistrate upheld that view, and added that a sweep, stake was defined by Webster as money on a horse race. As accused might have been misled by tbs reading of the Act, and as this was the first time the point had been raised, he inflicted the light sentence of four days’ imprisonment, forfeiting the' instrument. Mr Dick, for the accused, gave notice of appeal, and prisoner was allowed out on bail of LSO. Oamaru, January 27. The s.s. Hinemoa has been testing the coast in the vicinity of Oamaru during the past three days for fishing grounds, but with little success. • ■ ' ■ The barque May Queen cleared for London to-dsy with a cargo valued at L 5600. . Christchurch, January 27. _ At a meeting last night under the Fresl. denoy of : the Mayor, a committee _ was appointed to raise subscriptions in aid of the New Zealand Rifle Association meeting. • The inquest on William Lane, cook of the s.s. Rimutaka, resulted in a verdict of accidental death, with a rider that an ordinary cargo net should be placed 10ft fore and aft of the gangway of all vessels lying at the wharves. New Plymouth, Janaary 27. Tlie Hon Mr Bryce arrived this morning, and was met by Colonel Trimble. The continued drought is likely to eeri. ously injure the pasture unless rain is experienced shortly. The'Natives at Parihaka are holding a tangi.