INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1608, 13 July 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Auckland, July 12. Dr McGfregor has decided that the olronmstanceij under which Caswell, late a warder m the asylum, was dismissed jastify the action of Dr Cremonini, as Caswell was not abe to do any work; Government have agreed to grant him four months' salary as a settlement of tha I matter. ! The case against Barnett; for alleged larceny of a receipt book, value $100,' has been dismissed, Please admitting ia his evidence that he gave Barnett authority to take the book for debt. The Bench said the case was a most disgraceful one, and should not have been brought iato Court, the prosecution having evidently been the outcome of conspiracy. The Justices oonaldered they would fail m duty to the public did they not express a strong opinion of tha case. Blenheim, July 12. Bishop Suter publishes m to-day's "Marlborough Express," a letter denouncing the Irish National League, and aocustng the Catholic bishops and priests of conniving at assassination, . Wellington, July 12. Mr Travers, solicitor, has been instructed b> Nathan and Yuille, Turf Commission Agents, to issue writs against Selig and Bird, proprietors of the New Zealand " Referee," and also against Mr Ansell, of Hastings, for a letter published In the •• Referee," relating to an alleged wager. Damages are laid at £200 m each case. The " Evening Press " states that in* struotlons have been issued to the railway authorities to call m all free passes held by members of the House of Repreienta* tives directly the dissolution of Parliament is gazetted. The parcels post system will, come Into operation m September, and the necessary regulations will shortly be issued by an Order m Council.. But for the unfor. tunate fire at the Post Office the system would now have been m operation. Tenders for crates and hampers are~nnder consideration. The charges will be about a penny higher than m Victoria, the difference being caused by the tact that steamers will have to be used ai well as railways. The maximum weight of paroels is fired at lllbs. There will be special collections and deliveries m the larger towns. The Government will not buy horseß and expresses of their own, bat will call for tenders for this branch of the work. At the request of the Press Association the Postmaater-General has agreed to extend the limits within whioh Presa telegrams can be sent to evening papers, and has also arranged to have the oable kept open half an hour later at night. T , x. . D™»i*, July 12. Information has been received that Mr James Wyllle, tha ■«« Herd Laddie " cbsm. pion draughts player, is prepared to visit New Zealand as soon as players here art • ready to receive him. The balance-sheet of the Corporation for nlae months Bhows that the estimated • income m the municipal account will fall t short of liabilities by over £10,000, and • the overdraft will be over the legal limit If > the expenditure be not curtailed. The, i water supply account Is also defioleht b* > over £8000, but the gas account will bsv . m oredit by nearly £4000. > A roan named Samuel Smith, a dyer, • who has not been long here from Christ- ) church, committed suicide last night by - cutting his throat with a pocket-knife, r , He was a man of intemperate habits, and t very disagreeable m his cups, especially to - fawwlfe. He recently took up a knife and l innioted a wound In her throat, bat so l far he haa never threatened self destruotion. Saturday when he was under 3 the influence of drink, his wife/told him she was going away for a week to see If he woold behave better. She went away 1 on a visit to Port Chalmers, returning this j morning. She found blood stains on entering the house, and beoomlna 3 frightened she asked a neighbor to aer company her. On entering the house they found the body of Smith on the bed, a with a knife under it, and a gash m the throat which had severed the windpipe. - At the inquest held this afternoon a 1 verdict was returned. «' That death rej suited from hemorrhage caused by a self- , inflicted wound while deceased was tem-*s . porarily insane through drink."