INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6791, 16 January 1897, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[by telegbaph,] (FES PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. January 15. The Exhibition will bo closed on February 3rd with appropriate ceremony. Herbert Allandale has been committed for trial on two charges of burglary and one of having burglars' tools in his possession. The Court adjourned till tomorrow. Tha woman Jessio Kay, who alleged that the serious bums she received at Keruru a few days ago were the act of her lover, is sufficiently recovered to enablei her depositions to be taken. She persists in her statement that Chapel, who is under arrest, put her in the fire. She alleged she had been engaged as a housekeeper by him, and as she resisted improper overtures the accused placed her on the fire, resulting in her feet being badly burned. The condition of the woman is still critical. DUNEDIN. January 15. A woman appeard in Court to-day who had spent 11 months and five days of the last year in gaol, having been convicted 15 times for drunkenness. She starts this year with a sentence of two months. AUCKLAND. January 15. Rain set in yesterday, a third of an inch falling. Carlson and White, the two men charged in the Tekuti stabbing episode, were taken up to the Hamilton hospital to-day to be present at the taking of the depositions of Bain, the man stabbed, as he is not expected to recover. The 1897 examinations of junior and senior civil service candidates concluded to day. The total number of candidates is 355. J. H. Smith has been arrested ab Adelaide, at the instance of the Charitable Aid Board, on a charge of deserting his five children. A constables leavos by the Waihora to bring him to Auckland. This is the first of similar cases the Board intends to deal with.