INTEPRAVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1568, 22 March 1887, Page 3

INTEPRAVINCIAL NEWS.

Rhcr'j before &i might on Sir dry ! i a fire broke out in ifibrenfried’s spirit stores, Lower Queen street, Auckland. The fire got a good hold, but the brigade auppressed it within an hoar. The insnranaea amounted to £4200. Catherine Jonea, Tauranga, was charged at the Auckland Supreme Court, yesterday with, assaulting her husband with a table knife, Hhe, pleaded guilty to the act in self defence, This was accepted as a plea of not guilty. Evidence was led, and the jury found a verdict of not guilty. The Judge in acquitting the prisoner advised her in future! drunken quarrels to use only the weapons | provided by Nature. Archibald McNair, stealing a boat, aooordian, and 8s cash, was, sentenced to six months’ hard labor; Wm. Anderson, larceny of a silver watch and gold chain, to two years’ hard labor ; James Fleet, attempting to pan counterfeit sovereigns, to six months’hard labor j.Thos, King, Walter Hardy, and Charles Coleman, to 18 months’ imprisonment for stealing £26 cash and ten ounces of gold from John Hughes, a returned digger from Kimberley. Jane Horne, attempted suicide, was dismissed. David George Cox and George Perry, aged 14 and 10 years respectively, were drowned on Sunday while bathing in a creek at Maakau, Auckland. Mrs O’Neill, wife of an expressman at Onehunga (Auckland), died on Sunday, it is supposed from the effects of "rough on rats" taken on Monday last. The woman has been ill since, but the husband would not call in a doctor. At the B.M. Court, Wanganui, yesterday, O. A. Tod, wine and spirit merchant, sued the Heads Bail way Company for the price of champagne and whiskey, supplied on the occasion of the turning of the first sod of the railway. The evidence given showed that the liquor had been ordered by Mr S. 0. Cross, late Secretary to the Company, against the orders of the Chairman of Directors, and the plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. The Bev. T. J. Willis, late a Wesleyan Minister, was ordained a deacon of Ihe Anglican Church, Napier, , on Sunday by the Bishop of Waipu. j Mr Hnrsthonse addressed his oonstitnents at Upper Moutere, Nelson, on Saturday. He objected to forcing any industries by protection but thought it might occasionally be advisable to foster some by protecting them for a time. Ha had hitherto given the Government a general support, but in f nture be would support them when he considered them right and oppose them when wrong, Re objected entirely to the Bepresentation Bill if it proposed to establish an equal population basis and country, and predicted that under such circumstances the stonewalling of the last Bill would be a mere pebble compared to the edifioe of obstruction which would be raised against this. A cable message received at Dnnedin notifies the death of Mr William Denny, head of the ship building firm.