INTERPROVINCIAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1028, 29 March 1884, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nbw Plymouth, March 25th. „ Information has been received from Mounford's survey party that they have reached Ohura, haying followed up the line from Tongapoautu, the point where Carkeek had stopped. They have obtained anothergpod xoute to Te Awamutu . This is the third good route which has been fowdJujland, aju| 'will ;ppen up some Timaru, MakhjfiSth. At,se:fs<>Jipks6?irt to-day, Huppßrosnahrn was fiued £20 for sly-grog selling Shanasgr, (^arch T 9th. The gj^den^jshpwedi th' at tha'defendant's wife effected the sale, he being out oi the room at the time. Mr Hammersley asked for_a dismissal, but the Bench were satisne^h&JtfiC Aef&dfenl iwas- privy >to' the sale and fined him. Notice of appeal was given. A secondTnformation against the same defendant was adjourned, pending the>result <)£ .the^appeal; March 25th. The following remarkable episode took place-at an inquest ja,t Helensville onthe body oi Mary Brown, an elderly widow, who expired somewhat suddenly from an apoplectic fit. At the conclusion of the inquest the foreman of the jury (Mr Curtis Moore j rose, and addressing the coroner, ■aid that the jury had directed him to express to the coroner, and through him to' the public, their feelings of indignation on learning that a woman in the township had lain for 32 hours in an apoplectic fit without medical attendance, whilst two professors of medicine were in the district. It was no use .disguising , their feelings in the' matter. They must and would have a sober medical gentleman in town who could be available in every cajefof .emergency. - The two wlp ||Bsidecl them (were | rom &eir%abits totally unfit and unreliable ; infect,' they were a disgrace to the'medical profession. -The -jury requested the coroner (Mr A. Bonar) to duly represent their feelings in this matter to the proper authorities . Wellington, March 26th. At the -Police Court this morning some Wellington dentists proceeded against Dr Sinclair, a dentist-surgeon, who is travelling the' Colony, " onithergroUnd thafjhiß TOiAnofe specially qualined under tte iJentut Act of 11880. ' defendant's counsel asked for a remand, but' this was opposed' ( oh behalf of the plaintiffs, who stated that since the information had been laid Dr Sinclair had lodged diplomas with the' Registrar-General ' under which, he could be duly registered, and they were quite willing to withdraw the information if ; Sinclair would pay -the costs of the case. This course was ultimately decided on. March 26th. ; Ah influential deputation waited on Mr J. D. Ormond to-day to present him with a requisition asking him to stand for the representation of Napier at the general election. The requisition was signed by oyer« 100 electors. Mr. Ormond expressed his gratification at being asked to come forward, and said that he should not have re-entered public life uuless he could represent a constituency with whose in* terests his own were bound up. r iNVEKCABpqLL, March 24th. A woman named Sarah Jane Flett, wife of a blacksmith at Nightops; has been committed to gaol on a charge of manslaughter, arising out of alleged malpractice as a midwife. The' deceased woman was Jane Mildenhall, wife of a labourer at Wrey*s Bush. No doctor attended her but Dr Young, of Riverton, who was sent for, found the woman dying. He did not seethe child, and was 6 ffopinipn deceased's dejith wa« caused^byiimproper treatment, which might,. however, have, been used witb the best intentions.' Further evidence went to show that accused stated that she had a diploma. In examination she admitted . that, thinking, all hope of the doctor's coming was at an end, she used means she would not otherwise have taken to ' relieve deceased. These facts were brought out at the inquest on Saturday, and Mrs Flett was at once arrested.

- CmusTpHURCH, March 24th. At the inquest this morning on the bodies of the children of the woman Royal, who had them in her charge when they .were- drowned, Dr Thomas stated that Mrs Royal suffered from puerperal mania after her last confinement, and on several subsequent' occasions had complained of pains in her head. No evidence was adduced to show how the children came to be in the river, and .the jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned."