INVERCARGILL.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1506, 19 March 1861, Page 5

INVERCARGILL.

[From the "Lyttelton Times," March 13],

The Otago Colonist acknowledges the two numbers (published on the 16th ult. and 2nd instant) of the " Southern News," a journal just started at Invercargill. It is at present a small paper, of not very dashing appearance, but the practical difficulties connected with the first issue of a paper in a young country forbid criticism. The leading articles in the first number consist of a defence of Separation, temperately written, and an inquiry as to " What we were, and what we are ;" in the second, of a panegyric on Mr. D. Bell and Mr. Mantell, who have come forward as represeutatives for Wallace County, the nomination for which takes place on Thursday next. No opposition to these gentlemen is spoken of. We take the following local paragraphs from the News of the 2nd inst: —

The Resident Magistrate's Court sat on Wednesday. The only case was that of Edhouse v. Edhouse, and it was a truly paiuful one— Mr, Edhouse, who resides at Mount Pleasant, in the Riverton district, charging his wife with two separate attempts to murder him by shooting him with a rifle. The priucipal witnesses called in support of the charge were the eldest daughter and second son,, who deposed to hearing the two shots fired, and being told by their father that their mother bad fired them ; also to their mother having sent them out of the house on both occasions shortly before the shots were fired ; the other witnesses were P. C. M'Kay, Mr. Aldred, and Ed-yard Norris, a sawyer, to whose hut prosecutor went after being wounded a second time, who deposed to being told by prosecutor that his wife had tried to kill him, and his giving her in charge; the two latter stating that prisoner went with them voluntarily to Riverton, after being allowed to go home by herself and change her dress. The'wife by the questions she put, seemed to imply that hev husband had inflicted the wounds on himself: and a statement made by the second son as to a remark of Mr. Ward, a neighbour, for whoirt he had been sent, led the resident, magistrate to remand the further hearing of the case till next Wednesday, when both Mr. .Ward and Dr. Monckton could be in attendance, Mr. Price has informed the prisoner that he would accept bail for her appearance, in £100, by two sureties of £50 each.