INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1921, 17 August 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(P2R PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, August 16. Mr P. Conning, travelling agent for the Colonial Mutual .Life Asßuranca Society, was seized with a fit onboard the Devonport ferry steamer to-day, and died a few minutes afterwards when removed to a bouse. The cause of death was heart disease. Napier. August 16, Cro33 informations, Luckie v Ware, for embezzlement, and Ware v Luckie, for perjury, wers called on the R.M. Court to day, but were adjourned for eight days, to allow of the attendance of Mr Tanner, M.H.K , who is one of the principal witnesses. Fielding, August 16. Mr Sandiland, solicitor for tbe widow of the late Percival Bear, states distinctly that the application for the amount of the Government insurance has not yet been made, as the neoesaa r y documents are not to hand. Inveroargill, August 16. In the Supreme Cjurt to-day Thomas Edmunde, from Waikari, charged with theft of a watch so fir. back aaJfltJjumaiXj_ 1885, was acquitted. The defence was that accused received the watch an security for a loon made to a man who was on the premises from which the watch was stolen on the day namad. A peculiar coincidence in connection with the case was that the watch originally belonged to a man who was drowned, and the last owner was assisting to recover the body of the drowned man from a well, when the watch was Blolen, and tbat the man from whom the accused said be got it drowned himself recently while in delirium tremecs Edward .Albert Mawer and Harry Treen, two old offenders, who convicted on charges of house breaking and sentenced to three years' hard labor The convicts had made a systematic raid in country districts, breaking into and robbing bachelor settlers' houses while the owners were at work.