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Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 28

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{ Malieiou- iampeirag surifcli the Masterioa . gasworks is shown. An Mttempt was sieo icftd© to rim off the ga-« Tro'm one of the hohfers. JTart it not been detected in tini© ibe stD^k r"«f 35.0001* Wedd lbaira h«m"ib?t. Tlie {ftMLocJJ <3SFexe £25 wlwarxl ior iu£ocouittan Jeading to tbe detection , or ihe. coavietlon of ttie j?e'n>g< retors. By the W^tralia; tduc'h atrived «n *Tie IStfa, Ac .Dq»r tflswii <rf Aj^itailtflee reo?ircd * ooosigumaot of 25 &ngont goate fry* Hfev South Wales. lit is iuteuiied io plaae ike goais, after they ha-i r « completed lheir jjericfl in quarantine, en toa»e vretrSy sections zt Tvnrin is -ocder to stst-er^iu tiae effect tbey vil 4ia-re oh +he «radic»tM»n of w»e<k. De-cites nisi y>«.rv a.u.it± ll uu 'I'i.uiou*jr

in the divorce cases Alice O'Mahany *« Dennis O'Mahany. and Ada Regin r. Michael Regin. Cruelty and desertion wero the grounds in both cases. The Chief Justice on Friday ruled as to the right of Brown, an ex-prisoner, ta sue Dr Teare, gaol surgeon, for £2000 damages for alleged unskilful treatment while in gaol. The counsel for defence contended that the action was prevented by tlvt- statute limitation (over six years) having elapsed. Plaintiff having been a prisoner :u {gaol during that period, his Honor held) that the convict. was oivilly dead while in, gaol, and the Statute of Limitations could not therefore apply. The Masterton Natives who were partly suffocated "by charcoal fumes «re recovering.

The salvage claim made by the Union Company for £3000 for towage of the barque Gladys has been settled by payment of £750., The Commissioner of Police has been advised of the arre3t at Melbourne of William. H. Essex on a charge of breaking into the Waihi Gold Mining Company's premises afc Waikino on Oetooer 27, 1900, and stealing therefrom gold slimos and zinc shavings valued at £700. It was in connection with tlie same robbery that Finn, and Eager were recently sentenced in Auckland. Essex, until a month ago, was manager of the Equitable Life Assuranca Company afc Duaedin.

j In tho football .match played at Wcodville t on tl • 20th between WoodviH-v and a team of Maoris from Dannevirke the latter played a very -rough 'game After several local players had been badly injured and had had to retire from v the field, tho police iiHerj^fered and ordered the roughest players off the ground. The matter is to be reported to the union.

The handsome monument of Sydney freestone now in course of erection in Feilding square bears the inscription :— " To the memory of those brave men from fliis district who, obeying the call of duty, sacrificed their lives in the cause of their £m< pire in the Boer -war." The inscription on the other Bido is "Duty to God und Empire." also the initials "E. R." and "V. R."

The Victoria College Council on the. 20th decided to appoint a. professor of biology at £700 a year, after a long discussion over the financial .position of the college aud the scarcity of funds.

The Public Works Department has ae* ropted the tender of Mr T. DiHon, afc £2f> 541. for the erection of a roar! and raflwav bridge over the HoTdtika- River near Hokitika. Ihe highest tender was £36,310.' Mr Hayes-, inspecting engineer for the Government, returned to "Wellington after . superintending preparations for the opening of the State cool -mines on •Ehe West Coast on the oM Westport-Cardiff Com- " pany's ground. In the Jiew mine being opened it will take the greater part of n yaaff to r«*-ir*K coaJ, ancl some iin^o longer before there is any considerable ontput. At • the Point Eliz.xbeth mine work is being' pushed on rapidly. ■A shocking affray tdok place at midnight on Saturday in Queen .street, Masterton, . when a labourer named "Daniel Mahnney stabbed a rabbiter named Giinther. ■* aged 28 years, in the ]rroin, inflictiaig *•> • " terrible a wovttd that tfhe bowels prettftded. * The wounded man was promptly attended ; ! by Dr lEosa, and coHveycd to" the hospital ' ! in an unconscious etate. Drs Sotemeat and Brugh, ivith Dr Ross, performed an opfrei rion. Tho man i» wonaidered in a precario'ia state. He xevived snfficirrftJy this afternoon to allow of his depositions bein? irlrf-a I by Mr James, S.M. Mahoney was asm:Ac'' . He stated that Gunther and txro other 1 mru had srt upon him, knocked ham down, snd x kicked him. He shouted " Murder," anrl acted in &elf-de-f«ice. He aaid that on a-.n earliei' occasion in the evening he took refuge from some men. The affair appears to be the outcome of a row in * hot*! in, the early part of the evening. A divorce case presenting tome unttsnal features came before Mr Justice Edwards on Monday when Edward Turner petitioned! for divorce from Agnes Turner, otherwise Agnes Saunders. on the ground that she- w*s the wife of Saunders when married to petitioner in June, If 93. Petitioner jnarricd ' Agnes at Mastertou, the latter describing herself aa Agnes Robertson, spinster. The petitioner's -motlwr had told him that re- ! spondent was married *t Knox Church, Dunedin, in 18SL 4>y Dr Stuart, to Joseph Saundem, but he pooh-poohed this etatejc<uit, and lived with the w<fnia"u, whom ho •believed to be his wife, for six yeare. They had -so children. The truth regarding the relationship of Agnes and Saundew eomiei^ to ihe -knowledge- ot-peritiopner, he left her in T.E93. The next thing he heard was thafe respondent had issued an information, against petitioner -for the -mainten&aice of .hersolf and child. The petitioner. OTcte to; :thc niagptstrate at Wellington, denying that i the woman was his wife, and that the child was his, tout as petitioner \ra& rken in poor._ circumstance* in T>uivedJ», and *H>nlc 7 . ho*" attend the WeUingtcm Crairt. an order -w?nt' against liira for lfta per week for his wife's support, the child having been dropped oufr of the information. The petitioner paid some money on the order and then stopped i paying. Subsequently respondent wrote to petitioner '« lawyer admitting the act of bigamy. His Honor granted a decree ci*i. surveyors selected by the New Zea« hxnd Government at the request of thai Imperial authorities for * work on Gold Coast, West Africa, leaw Wellington im the iuorninff for Auckland, from wheno» they Lake thftir departure x>n Friday by the Ventura. Tho party comprises Messrs T. C. Dennison (Oa-mirrn). N. Hazard (Warhi)» Leonard and -Percy Webb tMasterton), J. Stevenson (Oitri^tcKnnA). JZve&cxitk Jordan (Auckland). Reginald Wehfc <Napier). George Joyce (Jnvercargill), A. JSfcretton (Thames),. The Acting-Prenxier and Minister of Lunda httdc tlie party farewell to-day at a gatheriaig at ihe PairKameaitary Birildurfs, anjt expressed cordial good wishes for their jxlo* cess in their new sphere of work.