TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2910, 28 February 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[PER PBBBS ASSOCIATION.] The TarwntUkl Dummying: Charg-«t. New Plymouth, February 28. The charges against 4endy for making alleged false declarations under the Land Act were called on at the R.M. Court t'lis morning. Mr O' Hara Smith, auditor of the Land Department, who is prosecuting, with o her witnesses was ordered out of Court during the haaring of the case. Shooting* (.'fin*. WpxnjrsjppN, February 27. James Grairige, charged wifch shooting ! T!ie 'phelus George 'in the shoulder, ap- j peared in theR.M. Court to-day. Prisoner had been looked upon as prosecutor's stepson, but ii. evidence George said he had betfu living with Mrs Grainge as man and wife for eighteen year?. According to his statement he had quarrelled with her and was smashing the house with an age which he held in an attitude threatening Mrs Grainge, when the prisoner fired a revolver and hit him in the shoulder^ and afterwards fired again musing him. There had been a struggle before, in which be got a rift broken. The wound was not dangerous, t>u£ Jfepb prosecutor in the hospital for three week?. Otwg'o llarbpr Boar<>. Dcnbdin, February 28. ftfr Gourley was re-elected Chair n>an of the Harbor Board.. Siil«« of Ilpa». All the runs offered this mornj.tig were 6qld fet the upset prices to the present 'esseea.