INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1345, 18 September 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

■Wellington September 17. Foe weeks past some person or persona at the Te Aro end of the city have been * playing “ The Ghost ” business, and 1 numbers of nervous people have received 1 great frights. The police have been on the lookout for some time, but have been 1 unable to discover the miscreant, and the ' papers suggest that chargee of buckshot might exrociae the ghost. The Education Department hare received twenty-five applications for the position of pupil-teacher at the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Summer, bat at preaent It is not certain whether the Civil Service Reform Act will interfere with any appointment be'ng made. James M.tchell altos McKenzie, who was charged with robbing Freeman’s jeweller’s shop, was this afternoon committed for trial. William Woods and his wife, caterers to the defence force at the defence works at Forts Halswell and Ballance. were today charged on several informations with sly gtog-eelling, it being alleged they were In the habit of selling spirits to the members of the force. The evidence failed to snbitantiate the charges, and the whole of the informations were dismissed. Mr J. J. Scott, landlord of the Central Hotel, while standing on a small table on the first storey of the hotel this afternoon, searching for an escape in the gas pipe, overbalanced and fell down the well of a staircase, falling heavily on his head, which struck the second step from the bottom. The fall mast have been clear eighteen feat at ’east, and as Scott's weight is 21 stone the results were of oonrss very serious. Scott received a nasty scalp wound, and it Is feared his spine Is injured. It is not expected he will recover. Scott is a well-known Voln steer and a frequent competitor at meetings of the New Zealand Rifle Assentation.