INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 2976, 13 June 1899, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association^ AUCKLAND, June 12. Mary Mnlville, on a charge of procuring abortion, was committed for trial. William Carroll, who was charged at the Police Court with the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Carroll, was remanded to appear at Cambridge on Thursday. Elizabeth Hill, on remand, charged with abandoning her child, was discharged, the case being dismissed. Mr Hutchison, S.M., said that there was no evidence that the child brought by the girl from Napier and subsequently found

and presumably nbnniioued at Parnell, was the same child. Evidence of abandonment could only b« procured from ■Auckland, and as it was not produced the case would be dismissed. James Carter, charged with being found on licensed premises daring the currency of a prohibition order, pleaded guilty under extenuating circumstances. A fine of 40s and 9s costs was imposed. Margaret Wilkie was charged with ft similar offence. His Worship recorded a conviction and discharged the accused. NAPIER, June 12. Albert Pellan, aged about 35 years, was drowned m the Tutaekauri river, near Taradale, on Saturday afternoon. Deceased was last seen alive on Thursday. WOODVILLE, June 12. The Premier has arranged to speak here on Friday evening m reply to tfce leader of the Opposition who delivers an address to-night. i WELLINGTON, June 12. A man named Williams was fined £1 and 10s costs to-day, for refusing to show a railway ticket to the collector. The defence was that the man was not one of the officials specially named m the Act to whom tickets must be shown on demand, but the Magistrate held that a guard could authorise a subordinate lo collect tickets. WAIPAWA, June 12. The Kaikora school was burned down on Saturday night. The origin of the fire is a mystery. CHRISTCHUBCH, June 12. The result of the poll for the headquarters of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board is 126 votes for Wellington and 120 votes for Christchurch ; also a few votes for Auckland and Dunedin. DDNEDIN, Jane 12. The sheep entered at the winter shdw for the society's special prize for freezers were taken to the Burnside freezing works to-day and killed, preparatory to being sent to London to test their value. The results were— Ten Romney hoggets, average hot weight 591 b, average weight of fat 51b, average value of skins 4s 3d ; twenty Border Leicesters 821 b, B£lb, 5s 3d ; ten Shropshires 651 b, 6£lb, 4a 3d ; forty crossbred Downs 691 b, 7£lb, 4s 3d; fifty crossbred longwools 761 b, 81b, 4s 9d. Quite a number of burglaries are reported to have been committed on Saturday or Sunday night. INVERCARGILL, June 12. Shortly after midnight this morning the Commercial Hotel, Mossburn, was destroyed by fire together with the stable. The latter was owned by Mr W. Beer. Mr Milne, the licensee, discovered the fire outside near where a case of empty bottles had been standing. He got all the inmates out, his wife and family m their night clothes only. He lost cash and watches besides the whole contents of the house. The insurance on the hotel is not known, but the contents were covered for £150 m the Imperial office. The stable was insured for £25 m the Royal Exchange.