INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1370, 14 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, October 13

In the Supreme Court to-day J. T. Clarke indicted for a-snn, was acquitted, the jury thinking the evidence nor strong enough. The Judge summed up dead against him an 1 in discharging the prisoner said that it was fortunate for him that the jury had taken a lenient view of the case.

The a- nual session of the Diocesan Synod was opened to day by Bishop Cowie. In his inaugural address his lordship deplored the absence of religious instruction in public schools, and urged the clerry to supply the lack wherever possible aft.w school hours by gathering the children in Government schools t gather for religious instruction Wanganui, October 13.

Robert Jones, for embezzling from the Customs D partment, was sentenced this morning to eighteen months’ hard labor. This finishes the criminal business.

Answers received.by by Cantsin Somerville, chairman of the New Zealand Rifle Association, point to the end of February or the beginning of March as the moat likely data for the Christchurch meeting. ■Wellington, October 13.

In view of the accident to the Oaraaru breskwater, the railway and marine an horities have been making experiments at Timaru with a view to ascertain what becomes of the drifting shingle now stepped In progress ly the breakwater thire At present It la supposed the shingle is ground into sand and washed round the end of the wall to be deposited in the harbor in tho shapo of sht. when necessity arises for dredging. The experiments so far go to show thar there Is a largo quantity of sand deposited after every storm. It is understood that Mr Kerr, M. H. R., "ho but h f the Hooker eaa patent over Zealand for £SOOO, has been offered 'bat sum for the .Auckland right s'oi'O. The Government have consented to try the process at Rea Iff Asylum. wTu re an ordinary gas-ni'king apparatus w >a to have been erected at a cost of something like £2 00 The principal is Identic il with that of the blowpipe, by which gas is dilated with air to a very large extent, and a patent burner curving downwards wTh thin platinum fc.il over the anerture is used. The foil is pierced with a number of holes through which the gas i»s.:ea and the effect is to produce a brilliant incandescent light, perfectly steady and shadow! si. C al gas may be employed, but Mr Hooker, got the best effect from gas obtained by simp'y forcing air through oil, which c»n be burned at one*’, w thout any intermediate process of tv'rlfici'.t'op, Ac He himself has li hted his own residues ! ~r many months by this process, a pair of bellow' a'd a smsl holder bein; the only apparatus u*ed. Ohj c'ions are u-ged to the new light that the gas is dangerously explosive, but the patentee denies that there is any mi re risk than with coal gas.

The chargt against Charles Cheyrnol of having, on the Ist Feburary. 1886, or thereabouts, feloniously forged and uttered a certificate of deposit of the Queen’s Bond Warehouse for ! en of hi-a- dy, was resam°d in t’m li.M. Court t i-day Accused was committed for trial, bail being allowed. Prcsecuiina counsel mentioned that the prea°nt charge was only one of fourteen separate forgeries, amounting in the aggregate to a large sum.