TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

West Coast Times, Issue 10430, 8 December 1896, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

« INTBRPBOVIMOUI £Per United Press Association.] Wellington, Dec. 7. j The T§x Department notifies after December 10th, ten per cent additional will, by the Act, be charged on all land tax assessments then remaining unpaid. In Chambers, before the Chief Justice, jVlr Jellicoe moved to remove a mveat lodged by John Herman against exDetective Kirby's property at Napier, under deed executed in July of last year. His Honor made aa order that unless Herman began an action in the Supreme Court to establish his claim before Ist February the caveat is to be removed with coats. .j DffNEDrx, Dec 7. A syndicate has been formed in London, called the Otago Syndicate, which it> prepared to treat for mining and other properties. Sir W. B. Perceval is managing director in London and Mr R. Hay, C.E., is colonial manager and consulting engineer. William Hall, miner, was found dead in his house at Clyde. Francis B. Dawson, six years of age, was drowned at Lawrence to-day. Napieb, Dec. 7. A cajrpenter named Louis Can tie, a prohibited person, committed suicide yesterday by cutting his throat. It was shown that he had been drinking, though he got nothing at the hotels, and his friends could not discover who got the liquor for him. When the supply failed he drank, cnorolydne and "painkiller" and was under the influence of these drugs when he committed the deed. A verdict was returned of temporary insanity through excessive drinking. At the Magistrate's Court, to-day, John Adean, secretary of R. D. M'Lean's elec tion committee, was charged with having signed for enrollment a paper purporting to besigned by Eustace Fanniu, an absentee, Defendant pleaded "not guilty" Evidence showed that Fannin, who was a resident of Gisborneat the time, sent a form written in pencil to bis wife, to be f orv warded to the Registrar. Adean said he witnessed the signature of a man who gave the name Eustace Fanning. The main point rested on the difference of spelling of the two names. The bench dismissed the case. William Douglas, sheep farmer, was fined £0 and costs for rnnning sheep from a ran declared to be iaf ested by liver flake. He stated he had known fluke to exist in the colony for 40 years and in that particular district for 35 years but it had only just been discovered by the Stock Department. Auckland, Dec 7. At the inquest on James Lidtile, batcher, of the steamer Te 'Annu, who fell over the wharf into the sea at two j o'clock on Saturday morning while attempting to go on board the steamer, tnd who was rescued and taken to the hospital where he died, a verdict was returned of death from pneumonia, the effect of submersion, but no evidence show how he got into the water. Dr Hooper gave evidence thatLiddle's condition indicated a state of intoxication. Deceased baa friends in Wellington. GiBBOKME, Dec 7. A partly demented Maori • woman, named Akeniha Keating, wife of a European, met with a horrible death at North <aisborne. Her husband said he gave her .dinner on Saturday afternoon. He had £0 feed her as she was helpless and when she sat or laid down he had to lift her up again. She had been in that state for the past two years bnt had keen worse for the past month. He then left for Giaborne and returning home at five o'clock missed her. He looked around and seeing ■smoke in the orchard rushed down there and found her lying on her back and the grass on fire all around her. She was dead, lying in a dry trench, a few inches deep. The grass iru long and dry and would barn ■very qukkly, but he could not account for it taking fire. He supposed she was smoking and threw a lighted match into the grass. She was in the habit of smoking and was , frequently in the orchard. She web about 65 yean «f agt. A neighbour gave evidence that the grata tob on fire for an acre round her, De,.

"cfesecl wm dreadfully burned on the left side «nd both arms and hair was fcurat off. Her head, anas and legs were extended up both sides of the trench as if she had fallen from a distance into the trench in that attitude. The women's mouth and nose were covered with blood. T he clothing had not been burned below the waist. A verdict was returned of accidental death by burnng. Eight or ten years ago deceased's mother was burned to death within a few yards of the same spot by her wbare catching fire.