INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1901, 25 July 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, July 24 Considering an application under the Lunaoy Act to-day, at the Supreme Court, Judge Gillies saii there were many lunatics m the Asylum who had no right to be there. People should be only confined m an Asylum when dangerous to themselves or others, and he knew from his personal knowledge that there were many m the Asylum who had no right to b» there, Wellington, July 2.4. | A man was killed on the railway near Pal mar a ton North last night. Bis name 's Jeremiah Maloney, a single man, employed as a laborer. It appears he was crossing the line, when he was caught by an engine which was shunting. One leg was out off and the other broken, besides receiving internal m jar lea. The sufferer lingered for four or five hours, when he expired.

The body of Mr James Bruoe Wallace was found this afternoon on the foreshore at Te Aro. There was a large ugly gaah over the right temple and other minor braises on the faoe, and it Is believed they were caused by his falling off the breast work. Deceased was an old and wellknown colonist, and was aged sixty-nine He jvas last seen alive yesterday afternoon, wbfa he expressed his Intention of seeing some friends off to Melbourne. This afternoon Mr H. S. Fi'zherbert, solicitor, accompanied by Mr G. Robertson as Interpreter, went up to the Terrace gaol for the purpose of taking the necessary steps foe the isßae of a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of the I'allan prisoner, Graspariuf, who Is at present m custody on an order of the Supreme Court for extradition to New Caledonia. Oaharu, July 24, Mr W. H. Teaohemaker, a noted breeder of merino sheep, aad an old resident m the district, died this morning. Mrs Hannon, wife of the licensee of the White Htrt Hotel, was seriously iojured on board the Waihora to day. She was strook by a quantity of potatoes In the slings and thrown against the machinery and rendered unconscious.