INTERPROVINCIAL

West Coast Times, Issue 10532, 16 July 1897, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[Per United Press Association]. Wellington, July 15. Active ruining operations will be started in a few clays by a syndicate which is to explore the gold-bearing roofs at Karori. The promoters are sanguine they have a good thing and intend to erecfc a 20 head battery driven by steam. The stuff is friable and easily crushed. Assays by various processes give results froru£l 5s 6d to £11 10s per ton. Tho venture is so far important that if it pays no doubt other reefs will be found in tho vicinity and altogether employment- be given to s. considerable number of men. A good many oilers to form volunteer corps have been received by ihe authorities from various parts of tho colony. Col. Pole Ponton considers tho principla guiding this question is that corps should only be established whore they can be easily mobilised. Iv tho divorce case, Boon v. Boon, a decree absolute was granted. The prize medals, granted by Government for cormetition by members of thfl volunteer force for the year ending 28th 1 February, have been won by tl\p men named below. Gold medal for the beat shot in each island :— North Island— Sergt. Frank Humphries, Hastings Rifles, 99; South Island— Private John Ching, Stoke Rifles, 104. Gold and silver medal for second best shot in each island — North Island— Corporal James Scott, Wanganui Naval Artillery, 97; South Island— Sergt. J. L. Chiug, Stokes Rifles, 102. Silver medal for best shot in each district— Sergt. J. Hatswell, A battery, New Zealand Artillery (Auckland), 97; Private Arthur Parker, Manchester Rillos (Marton), 97; Private Wilfred H. Chiug, Stoke Rifles (Nelson), 95; Corporal Steven Lister, E Battery, (Canterbury), 89; Private Patrick Curran, North Ofcago Mounted Rifles, 82; Col. Sergt. George Kennard, Dunediu City Guards, 81; Private George Wood, lliversdalo Rifles, (Southland), 83. The first of tho cases against tho Sy- , rians began at the Supreme Court to-day. The Collector of Customs sued Michael David also known as Michael Kaphel Farrz for £100 penalty on two alternative counts of fraudulent evasion of Customs duties and of making false declarar tions. Translations of letters seized in accused' 3 letter book were put in. They were addressed to Azzi Bros., Paris, and ' others. In these repeated mention is made of sending "undervalue invoices." 1 A case of alleged cruelty to a child is occupying the attention of tho lower Court. John M. Heley, Clerk in the Land and Income Tax Department, and his wife, Margaret, are accused of aggravated assaults on their nephew, Albert Green, an orphan, 12 years and 7 months, who, with two brothers, lives with them. The boy deposed to being stripped and savagely thrashed with a hide whip, also starved, and he had to. got food from neighbors. He admitted various thefts and that he had been punished for burning kerosene rags and sticks in a room which he said he did to get light. Mr flutcheson, M.H.R., said he had seen bad bruises on the boy and often saw him carrying excessive loads of wood. He had often given him food and remonstiated with the Heleys but they both denied ill-using the boy and said he was hopelessly incorrigible. The case was adjourned till the afternoon to enable Mr Jellicoc tp conduct the prosecution in place of the police. ' Auckland, July 15. The child Pakel who developed measles on the Mariposa was removed last night to tho hospital with her' father, who attended her during the voyage. They will be isolated. The authorities consider die danger ended. Last night a man was said to have fallen over Firth's wharf. The police got a boat and searched for him but were unsuccessfully. They dragged again to-day without result. No one is reported mi%ing as yet.) Colling wood, July 15. Edward Solly, aged 28, waggoner to G. W. Riby, was drowned this morning while crossing the Aprere yiver, which was in flood. Six horses' were' alsq drowned. Another waggoner, Brown, had a narrow escape but the horses just managed- to swim across. Solly- was a respectable man and his parents live at Takaka. Owing to the discoloured state of tho river the body has not yet been recovered. CIIRISTCHUKCIf, July 15. A four roomed house ab Cheviot, occupied by Mrs Bent, was destroyed by fire. The charred remains of the occupier were found among the debris. Sheehan wilj bo executed' on Wednesday morning. When notified ? the pq'udemned man received the information calmly. INVERCARGILL, July 15. Mr Ward publishes an address to the electors stating ho will go t» the poll, and that two of Die leading lawyers of the

colony have givan an opinion he can be legally elected and take his seat. Were it not for the fact that ho could have provided for all obligations within a reasonable time, and therefore ought not to have been forced into insolvency, he might have been disposed to take the gratuitous advice of his opponents.