INQUEST ON MRS MARY SCOTT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9280, 5 January 1892, Page 2

INQUEST ON MRS MARY SCOTT.

, An inquest concerning tho doath of Mrs ujMary Scott, who died on Monday morning, i was begun at the residence of Mr W. H. Scott this (Tuesday) aftornoon, boforo C C. Kottlo, Esq. (Coroner), and the followt ing jury : — Walter Ambury, Samuel -' Crocker, Percy Bellringer, Allan Cleland, Moses Wooks, and Horatio Hammond. Sorgeant Duffin represented tho polico. After tho jury was formally empanelled, the inquest was adjourned till Wednesday, '' at 4 o'clock.

Mails for Auckland, per h,s. Gairloch, closo to-morrow (Wednesday), January 6, . at 11 a.m. The amount of Customs duty collected j last, month throughout th& colony was : £131,897 8s lOd, as against £117,5G9 14s 9d for tho previous month, and £131,734 13a lOd for correoponding month of 1890. TIIO total lor tho nino months of the Financial year is £1,178,484 19d 4d, being £27,234 19s 4d in oxccsh of tho Colonial ' Treasurer's estimate, which, for that period, was £1,151,250. The beer duty collocted last month amounted to £6950 19s 4d. Tho T/oasuror's ostimato for tho nine months of tho financial year waß £45,000, ' but only £42,128 13s bus been collected i during that poriod, leaving a deficiency of £28717 a. A meeting of thoso interested in Dr. ' ' Barnard ob Homo will bo held in tho Town Hall on Thursday night, for tho purpose ™'df arranging for tho reception hero of tho " Rev W. J. Mayor and hia parly of Homo 'boys,' who aro now in Auckland. . ( Captain Edwin &lographcd at nocn to r day : — North-west to west and south gnlo j " with rain and heavy sou, within ton hours from now ; glaaa ribc and weather coldor,