INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1371, 15 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, October 14,

George F. Wa-ker was arrested on tha R to ahaua prior to her departure i -r ♦ h ' S'>nth, charged with emb zzling £lB, the m 'ey 3 of In incumbent of the Ej lao 1 alian c’ inch c ncert. In 'he >uptime Cm t to-day, Arthur D Bennett, -coountant, charged with perjurv in regard t> the endorsement on a p onma iry note in Robert Fczroy Bolton’s estate was acquitted. Thu Judge expressed regret tbit he should have l een suojectod to the inconvenience of a trial, and animadverted strongly on certain evidence given for the prosecution Wanganui, <>ctob r 14

In the P upnma Court to d >y, the case of he National Mutual Life Insurance Company v Lundon, the canvas er for the Government Insurance, ws commenced Tne c'aim is for £2 00 for alleged slander ms statements made *7 Lundon in t ying m get business, to the 1 fLct that the National Mutual was not sound and must soon come to grief at the rate it was paying for new business, and further, that it took lives without medical examination. M* Chapman of Wellington, for plaintiff, and Mr Barnicoat of W.an. anui, for defendant. Evidence to mldda > adjournment was wholly for the plaintiff", and generally oortoborative of the statement made in the claim. Blenheim, October 14.

A fatal accident occurred' this evening to a man named Robert Aron, grazing fa rmer, in the Awatere district, about twenty five miles from Blenhe m, He was driving home in a dray, and when about a mile from town fell from the v-'hicle and the wheel pa;sed over his ohesr. Death ensued before the arrival of a medical man. Dunedin, October 14. The police in the Dunedin district subscrib d and presented a purse of sovereigns t; Inspector Weldon, who goes Home on have of absence