INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3523, 13 January 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

{By Tei-eciraph.) Auckland, Jan. 12. A Maori girl named Kuori, aged Boven yean, was drowned to-day while bathing in the Punui. At the Supremo Court civil sessions Ethel CuhlinT" a barmaid, recovered £50 damages from Herman Obbe : for false imprisonment. Tho claim was for £200. . : Lewis K. Gew, Austrian Consul stationed at Leon, Nicaragua, Central America, who was a passenger by the mail steamer, intends to make a tonr of the colony after visiting tho Lake Country. The late Whangarei race meeting has famished quite a batch of disqualifications. The horses Lochiiav'ar and Kato are disqualified for six months, aiid Catch-'eni-if-you-can, for three yoars, and the jockey of tho lastnamed for a like period. Tho jockey Robinson is disqualified for three years, while R. Trewin and M. Hadfield were put on the black list for. six months. It is said the disqualifications will come boforo the Stewards of; the Auckland Pacing Club at an early date. .. T)io .', enquiry intp the Auckland Steeplechase business is not yet finished and is adjourned for further evidence. • ' .: ' ; ..Wblunoton, Jan. ,l2; The Governor will not arrive here before Thursday morning, when" be will pay a visit to Admiral Tryo'n on board H.M.B. Nelson. A.t the Resident Magistrate's; Court this afternoon Frank McDowell was chargiH with having at Blenheim stolen and converted to his own use certain riots of clothing and drapery 'of the total t valuo of £676, the propertv of Jas. McDowell. He was further charged with having betweon the sth and 17th of; last November embezzled a large amount of money belonging to Jas. McDowell by whbm ha was, then.' employed. ' After the prosecutor's evidence was taken (he case was adjourned until to-morrow. ■■„. Kaia, which is much needed, fell this afternoon, but the weather is now .clearing up. > : . : !■ CBBtBTCHITBOH, Jani 12.1 The case of Hamersley v. White was heard, at the Supremo Court to-day. MrWeston appeared for tho plaintiff and Mr Gibbous for the defendant. The plaintiff sought to

I. .recover the sum of £21 on a dishonored pro: : ": misßory note, of which the defendant was fcho; faiakar, one G. W.. EU' tho payee; and .the plaintiff the. endorsee. It appeared that the plaintitl came, up from Timaru ta. argue a c case in Banco for G. W. Kll, the understanding being that he was to receive 20 guineas S for the argumentin the case of Ell v. Harper I and Ell v. Harper and another. The plaintiff so attended, and received the promissory note J now sued upon, which was dishonored on \ maturity; The defence was that the plaintiff 9 knew that the promissory note was an accommodation bill. His Honor gave judgment . for the plaintiff for the amount of the £ro : inisßory note, with interest, and costs aB in ' the District Court. In the Divorce Court today, in tho case -. Smith v. Smith and another,' the decree nisi was made absolute. In re M. Moßley^V Mosley, tho wife petitioned, and after hearing the ' witnesses to prove" 'adultery and cruelty j on the respondent's part, Judge Johnston granted a decree niti. Similar decrees wero \ granted in Moss 1 v. Moss, in which tho husband petitioned, and Dutton v. Dutton.iri which the wife proved two years' desertion by her husband, coupled with adultery. ; A novel case under the' Married Women's 9 Property Act, came before Mr Beetham, % Resident Magistrate; to-day. E. Bromley, a y general dealor, becHino bankrupt in November i last. A few days later his wife began business 1 on her own account with a fresh stock. The j Official Assignee seized her goods in the boliof that thoy were her husband's, who took part in the business, for he had. not then '. obtained his discharge. Mrs Bromley now brought an action for damages against the ? Official Assignee on the ground that tho gbods J - were her separate property. The parties who ' had supplied the goods to Mrs Bromley swore that they looked to her alone 'for the payment of their claims. Mr GV Harper, who appeared for the defence; said the; case Was qaito a novel one, and ho had boon unable to Bud any English authorities bearing on such a state of things einco ' tho passing ' of the Married Women's Property Act, but . if the mon ' had really sold the gbods » to her as they stated he did not see any law 3 to prevent her holding them notwithstanding t her husband was an undischarged bankrupt. ; Mr Russell appeared for the plni' tiff, who I obtained judgment for the valub of the goods seized and ono shilling damages. Mr Beethara remarked that it would probably be found that a good manv complications would 1 arise .under the working of this Married 1 Women's Property Act. DtjnedlN, Jan. 12. Davie9, who was killed by' the bursting of f a gun on board the Protector at Port AdeI laide, was a native of Dunedin whero his i family are living. He was 20 years of age. The annual' meeting of the Presbyterian Synod cqmmonced this evening. Prof'-ssor Salmond delivered an address Ho reforred to the Press as a powerful competitor of the pulpit, and also expressed the opinion that I doctrinal distinctions are becoming blurred He recognised mingled good and evil jn the changes which wero t^kin» place. At the annual meetidg of All Saints' Parish Church, Bishop Neville's offer to contributo £2000 towards paying off the debt of the Church, provided its uso is given for a ' Cathedral, though still carried on as a Parish Church, was accepted.