INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1330, 1 September 1886, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, August 31. Peter Gonzslis, a Spaniard, ia in custody charged with committing ft murderous assault on bis son-in-law. Geo. Reid, last night. Prisoner said Reid was ill treating Mrs Reid when ho struck him. The weapon used ia supposed to have bean a pointed iron weapon. Reid has two dangerous wonnds in his forehead, aud ia in the hospital. Gonzdis appeared at the Police Court, and wrs remanded. The house of Mrs McCabe, settler near I To Awamutu, was burnt down on Sunday I morning with its contents. The family I had a wonderfully narrow escape. Mrs Me I Cabe was aroused at 2 a.m. by one of the I children, and on opening the door to get J water was met by a volume of smoke and J flames. The family etcaped in their night | dresses, portions of the tcof falling in I before they got out of the building. In— J surance, £2CO in the South British. _ I A motion is again before the Ci y I 1 Council to take a poll of ratepayers on the I J question, “Is it desirable that the opera— I i tlon of the Contagious Diseases Act in the < city of Auckland be suspended. I j Invbbcabgili., August 31. I <

Mr Justice Johston, to-day. refusal to Issue a 7»MtJnfamus to the Waihopalaicensing Committee, ordering them t great a license to W. Shielos, whoai house at Menzies' Ferry they had closet on the ground that it was not wanted His Honor said that even if a sligh irregularity did oecur in the Committee 1 ! proceedings, it would serve no pu:fOi« to order them to reconsider the matter, as thiy would give the same decision Bichard Forrest, aged sixty, committed suicide to-day by drinking a lotion intended for external application. After taking the mixture he went to the police camp and told what he had d n). He stated that he had taken the poison to relieve himself of the Bufferings of this life as there seemed to be no hope of being again able to earn a living He was removed to the hospital where it was found necessary to perforn the operation of trachaeotomy to prevent soft .cation He died about six hours after taking the poison. Forrest was a verv respectable man, formerly a leather merchant in j Dunedin and well to do. Latterly he had fallen into low circumstances, bis only means of subsistence being a little clerical work which ill-health compelled him to I relinquish. He leaves a widow. I