NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

I2j T«lc2raoh,—Press Amoolatlon.l

THE OTAGO RIVER "FRESHES." Duncdln, October 25. The Taieri River fell a, couplo of feet • during tho night, and all danger of flood seems to bo averted. WOMAN'S WEIRD DOINGS. Auckland, October 25. Eleanor Eileen Christian, who pleaded guilty to charges of bigamy and issuing l a valueless cheque, was committed to the Supreme Court tor sentence. She was married at Christmas, 1905, to Herbert Christian, her maiden namo being Nelly Emmelino Deerlove. She lived with her husband from timo to time, there being throe children by the ntarriage. Posing as a widow, she married Robert John M'Donald at Auckland on October 5, and subsequently issued a valueless i cheque. The police inquiries into hor antecedents led to the discovery of tho bigamous marriage. ' Accused said sho really cared for M'Donald, and wished to clear tho way for Christian to get a divorce. PENKNIFE IN A ROW. Christchurch, October 25. An open penknife was used in a row between two men and a woman at Sydenham yesterday, and as the result James Madder was charged in the Magistrate'! Court to-day with wounding Mary Done van and George Boyce. Ho was remanded till Tuesday, Donovan was convicted for vagrancy and sent to tho Solvation Army Homo, and Boycc, charged with drunkenness, was remanded' till Tuesday. It is alleged that Boyco and Madder quarrelled, and the latter attacked Boyca with a knife, and tho woman, intervening, was also wounded. .THE PORRIDGE POT. Rotorua, October 25. Tho Porridge Pot, consisting of liquid mud, at Whaka, erupted to a height of 20 feet to-day. This phenomenon occurs only at-long intervals. .-•' ■~; MANAWATU SHOW ENTRIES. Palmerston, October 25. The entries for tho. Manawatu show, ' beginning next Wednesday, number 3431, which oxo?cds last year's record number by 570. Tho principal details are: Horses, 280; cattle, ?si; sheep, 292; pigs, 53; dogs, . 632. The chief increases are in dogs and homo industries. . ALLEGED BAG-SNATCHING. Auckland, October 25. A smart arrest in connection with an alleged hand-bag-snatching episode was made to-day. A detective suspected two men of bag-snatching and shadowed them. Subsequently they are alleged to havo stolen a hand-bog from an office, and on being confronted in a public lavatory by tho detectives, they attempted to evade arrest. Ono was captured after a race down the street, and tho other was arrested in bed at a houso in which the detectives suspected that he would b« found. i HIT BY FALLING TREE. Auckland, October 25. James Bradshaw, aged 55 years, was hit by a falling treo while buskfelling. on Mr. H. Poland's property at Koniata. yesterday. Tho doctor ordered the injured man to be removed to tho TVailii Hospital, whero an operation for fractured skull was performed. Bradshaw'a condition is critical. SUPREME COURT, Auckland, October 25. At the, Supreme Court to-day Rnma Timo, a Native, 15 years of ago, earns up for sentence on five charges—four of breaking and entering and theft, and one of horse-stealing at Dargavillo. The prisoner nvis sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment on each charge, tho sentences to be concurrent, and to be detained for reformative- treatment for a period not exceeding six years. Leonard totter, with a long list of previous convictions, was sentenced to six' months' imprisonment, cumulative, on ten charges of forgery and uttering, theft, and false pre- . tenccs, and was declared an hnbifiinl criminal. Robert Henry Keast, for indecent assault, two charges, was senfenced to four years' imprisonment on each charge, sentoucos to he cumulative. Francis Cunningham, aged 21, was sen- ' fenced (o ten years' imprisonment for indecently assaulting' a malo person. ' THE TIMARU PORT. Timaru, October 25. Tho Harbour Board to-day decided to extend tho eastern mole by 500 feet by day labour. Tho question was discussed whether to carry it out at a lower level by staging, or to the full height without staging. The former plan was adopted, on tho advice of tho engineer, who said that the cost would not be very much different, "WORRYING NEEDLESSLY." Duntdin, October 25. A man named Tindale, a compositor by trade, who came here from Invercargill a few months ago, and who has sinoo been keeping a boardinghousc in Arthur Street, has been missing since Monday morning. Ho is 39 years of age, and it. is understood that he has been worrying needlessly over small financial matters of late.