NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3715, 19 February 1898, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

(OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Yesterday. At the Tomoana freezing works this morning forty cows, condemned as diseased by tho Stock Inept ctor, werw sluughtorcd. An examination of ihe internal parts of tho beastß proved be yond doubt the prosecco of tuberculosis in thirty ei*bt of the rows, whilst tbe remaining two were suffering from acti oomycosis, one in a very advanced stage Of the forty killed twenty five were from one herd, tsat of a Pukahu (armor named Evans. This is the person I referred to in my letter of Wednesday last. Considerable alarm has been created in the town by this discovery of wholesale disease, an alarm which will not be thoroughly set at reßt until a thorough inspection is made of all tbe milk supplying cows of the district. It iB to bo hoped the authorities responsible will not lose any time in attending to their duties

All efforts to oarry the scheme for the widening of Emerson street into pffuot have now failed, owing to the obstinacy of the (Jnion Bank authorities The part they have played of attempting to make capital out of a opse of emergency is anything hot creditable. Messrs Ross and Gflandinning, who have acted throughout with commendable patience, born of a desire to see the scheme carried

into offe t, have now started to lay the foandati. n for their new brick building up to tho present road line. A welcome rain is falling to night. 4 continuation for a day or two is ardemij hoped for. It is not likely, I believe, that tbe captain of the ship Normau M‘Lood, no* loading: in the bay ( will accept tbe off*, of the Harbor Board of free berthage h | the breakwater. Whether he has been “ got at ” by tbe opposition party \ oannot say, but the oaptain now aava he will not come alongside unless the Board guarantee him a new abip in the event ot m accident. That tbe Board are not very likely to do. Business at the Supreme Court is progressing apace. Yesterday, besides the sentences wired you in the morning, two oases were dealt with, James Wilson being acquitted by the jary, after a two houn' cmsultation. of robbing one William Oretie of £8 Dunoon M'Oallum Mon. teith, oharged with indecently assaulting a lad named George Hatton wee found guilty and sentenced to six months’ i®. prisonment Tho trial of John (or “ Tod Bweeney, tbe well-known jockey, on a charge of indeoently assaulting » girl a imed Harriet OgdeD, occupied the Court during the whole of to day. Th« jary took a favorable view of tbe case, ind returned a verdict of not entity, and Sweeney was discharged. He was de fended by Mr Cresswell.

A rather pecoliar point oropped up it tbe Supremo Court this afternoon. Seven of the jury empanelled to try the oai« against Wilson yesterday, complained to bis Honor that the polioe had endeavored to induce one of their number to say who were in favor of conviotion and who wantsd an acquittal. Constable Rams-iy, the inquiring oonstable, Raid be had been instructed to fiad oat if Mr Oreswoll, the solicitor for the dofence, bad a relative 00 the jnry. His Honor said it was a moit improper proceeding on the part of the police, but he could not do anything in the matter.