INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 62, 15 October 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(own correspondent.) Napier. Wednesday. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday the case Sawkins v. Faulkner, for an alleged infraction of the Municipal Corporations Act, was withdrawn without costs. The Agricultural Show commenced to-day, but the day was confined to judging sheep and implements, and therefore, though the weather was splendid, the attendance was not large. Dunedin, Wednesday. At the Police Court to-day Mrs Brown was charged with the murder of Georgina Butler on the 2nd inst., and remanded till to-morrow. Wairoa, Wednesday. The annual meeting of the Clyde Town Board was held on Tuesday night, wr.en Mr J. T. Large was elected chairman. Auckland, Wednesday. The miners at the Kamo Colliery, Whangarei, have struck on account of a reduction in their wages. Edith O'Gorman D'Auffray, '' the escaped nun,” lectured on " Convent Life" at the Opera House to a large audience last night. In the Supreme Court on Monday Thomas Francis Holt, for embezzlement of a Friendly Society’s funds, was sentenced to six months’ hard labor. Dunn, the celebrated burglar, was sentenced to 14 years’penal servitude for burglary at the Oxford Hotel. Christchurch, Wednesday. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, David Blair, master of the School of Art, was charged with indecency. The case rested on the evidence of several children, whose statements were contradictory as to the dress and appearance of the man they had seen committing the offence. The Bench considered that the case for the prosecution had completely broken down, and there was a mistake as to the man's identity. The case was dismissed, and the decision of the Bench was received with applause. Wellington, Wednesday. The following is the detailed result of the band contest in connection with the Exhibition :—Oamaru band, 568 points, Ist prize. ; Invercargill, $65 points, 2nd prize, £5O ; Christ-, church, 530 points, 3rd prize, /”25. The others are : Auckland 530 points, Wanganui 506. Wellington 486, Dunedin 476, and Nelson 332. A protest has been entered by the Dunedin Garrison Band.