TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

West Coast Times, Issue 10657, 10 December 1897, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

INTiSRPROYINCIAL

[Per United Press Association.

Wellington, Dec 9.

A local syndicate has decided to send four men to the Klondyke goldfield by the quickest route possible. It was resolved to form & limited liability company with a capital of £1000 in £1 shares.

The Chief Justice quashed the conviction against Gatenby, a Wanganui chemist, for selling photographic apparatus on a half holiday. No costs were allowed.

At the Synod a resolution was moved disapproving of Church rafHes but the discussion was abruptly shelved by passing on to the next business.

Philpott is committed for trial for the alleged murder of Hawthorne.

The Gear Company's dividend is 10 not 8 per cent.

Auckland, Dec 9.

At a meeting of importers to-day the losers by the Harbor Board shed fire signed a petition to the House o£ Representatives asking the House to agree to refund the duty. The petition was forwarded to Wellington to-day.

At the inquest °Q Florrie Trance, aged 9, j)urned to death, aTerdict of accidental death was, returned,

The prisoner Knox is. still at large thcjugh J pohce search parties are out. He stoje a pair of dungaree trousers and coat of a torpedo man from the shed and with' a towel round his neck sauntered nonchalantly down the main thoroughfare, as if coming from bathing.

In the Makatu case at Taupo the ac. cused, Ng^pakia, was remanded till Saturday.

DuNEDiN, Dec 9.

At the hearing of the charge of wife murder preferred againt Chas. Clements to-day, the little daughter of the couple, 5 J years, gave evidence, but not on oath. She said not long after they .went to bed her father cut her mother's throat and

then cut his own, ..Her. mother was asleep before hei mother' wen^ to bed. After casting' ljw throat |jer' father went into thi passage thred times, doming back to the bed each time. She and her brother lay at the foot of the bed all that night and next day. She said she did not sleep at all and had nothing to cat. Her brother had a drink o| tea which her father gave him. When she 1 went to get up her father told her to' lie down. The girl gave evidence intelligently but though she said she knew her mother was dead when her throat was cut, she evidently did not realise it.