INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1466, 26 January 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, January 25. At the Civil Sessions of the Supreme Courts two cases of some importance were heard. One was a suit for damages for Beduction, and tho parties thereto were James Howell, gardener, Parnell, v Felix Monaghan, of Howick, settler, for the seduction of his daughter, Amelia, eighteen years old. The parties had been friends for twenty-five years, and had been on intimate visiting terras for that length of time. There was no defence, and the jury awarded plaintiff: £300 damageß.Jj The second case was an insurance case, Feunimoro Lee v Equitable Insnranco Company of New Zealand, a suit for £500, amount of policy. Lee kept a crockery store iu Hobson street, between Victoria and Wellesley streets. He was burned out in July lost and everything wa? lost. The defence was that plaintiff did not and has not furnished a detailed statement of his loss, and that ho has not lost £500 by the fire. The points] involved are to be argued in binco.

Gisborni, January 25. A Maori shepherd, named Win. Brown, has filed his schedule. His debts are about £3000. He ascribes his loss to the manner in which he has been treated by lawyers.. He has considerable landed property.

Wellington, January 25. At the inquest on Win. Kitching killed on Monday in a lift, the jury returned n verdict of •' Accidental death," adding a rider censuring Mr Jacob Joseph, the owner, and Mr J. Lahman, the local agent of Haymnn and Co , tho occupier, for not having the lift inspected by the Government Jnspeotor,

A peculiar incident happened at Newtown last night. A man named George Waters, when paesing a paddock in a thickly populated part of the suburb, deliberately lit a dynamite cartridge and threw it in the paddock. '1 ho effect of the explosion caused no damage, but the residents for a time were greatly alarmed. The Pilot telegraphed to lown thinking it was from a veaßel in distress.

6 The Waters case wa« again before the Court in the shape of an application that the books of the Northern Land and Loan Company put in as evidence in the embezzment charge might be removed. After argument, his Worship, though not definitely deciding the point, expressed the opinion that the book9 should be retained in possession of the Court authorities, but that the Auditors of the Company should be allowed to eee them He took time to decide the question. Dunbdin, January 25 The Iron and Woodware Company have decided to defray all the costs of the funerals of the four men who lost their lives at the fire.