INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2248, 9 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PIR PJKISS ASSOOIAriOK.)

Auckland, Ootobor 8. The Hokianga Oonoty Oonnoil were the defendants m an action brought by Alfred Ammon at the Hokiangg R.M. Court Plaintiff claimed £27 damages for an acoident to his horse, whioh fell into a hole on a bridga whilst travelling on a road under the control of the Council. Application w^a m^de for a nonsuit, on the ground that the defendants hay np do fnnda m hand, hsd advertised that they woul hnofc be responsible for aiy damages through accidents on roads, and that the plaintiff was guilty of oontributory negligence . Judgment was reserved.

A man named Wm, Gilley, a locomotive driven at tho Kinihia coal mine, at Huntiy, fell on to the railway line whilst attempting to put down the brake and one of the trucks passed over his leg, almott severing it. He died at the Waikato Hospital, owing to shoos to tbe nervous system.

Napier. Ootober 8; A large number of ouuoterfelt Bank of New Zealand notes appear to hive bean circulated the lait few days. At the last m -etbg of tbe Jockey Olnb one gentleman (n the course of buslnena received six auoh notes, all of irhloh were returned by the Back with the word "Forgery" Wfl<tan aoroas them. The counterfeit ones are splendid imitations of the real axtiole, apparently the result of expert photo-Hthogmpby, but by careful examination tbe cheat is easily discovered, probably beoaase the lens used m the operation was too email. TCvery letter and word on the original note photographed Is reproduced m the forgery on • slightly ■mailer toale. For instance between the ■entenoe "one pound" at the top of a genuine not*, and the saaie eentenoe m tbe counterfeit, there la a difference of several linen m depth, and of at least oneelghtb of an Inch In the full length of the ■entenoe. The counterfeits are reproductions of on s upon the Ohrlstoharoh branoh nf the Bank, the number being " No. 0 072912"

Wellington, October 8. A woman Darned Agoes Ann Corrado, wife of Pet ro Corrado, an Italian, a clerk m the Colonial Insurance office, was arrested to-night on a charge of mardering hir infant girl four months old. When Oorrado went homo this evening his ltitle daughter of five told him her mother had pat baby into a bath m the morning face downwards and kept it there all day. Banning upstairs he found the ohild dead on the bed, and sent for Dr Fell, to whom, aa well as to the police afterwards, Mrs Corrado confessed she had delibera tely drowned it adding that it was not hers. The ohild had been changed, and that was the best thing to do with it. She Beemed perfectly rational while making this strange statement, bot six yesrs ago she was In a private asylum near Dunedin. Since then, it is stated, she haß *hown no signs of insanity, Mrs Corrado ia an Englishwoman, about 3E» years of age, Oamaku, October 8. A ohild, teventeen months of age, named Mai iioo, was aooMentally polsorj»d to-day by drinking some aulphurlo aotd. The add had been plaoed In a shed at the back of the house,, and the ohild got at it, and died half an hour after the I dootor'e arrival, DuiTSDiff, October 8. laformatlon has been reoaived that Alexander Peat, jan,, « farmer has boon found dead near the Leo stream. It la surmised that a dray he was driving upset and fell on him.

The Mararoa has jaet been taken out of dookj after a thorough overhaul, preparatory to her taking up the running Iv the special servioe between. Melbourne and the Bluff with excufcalonistß for' tha Exhibition. ' "

At a meeting of the Horticultnral Sooiety it was decided to eeek the cooperation of Sopleties batmen Christ ohorch and iDyercargill Ja a show, to be held during the Exhibition, bo aa to make it representative of the present etato of colonial hortlon ture, it buing desirable to tftike as good an impfaaßion as possible on the vicitore.