INTERPROVINCIAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 1051, 9 June 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

Too Government have dismissed Firstclass Detective Farrell for fighting with a civilian at the Thames. Farrell has been a policeman for 34 years.

A sailor belonging to the Annie Millbank fell into the Auckland harbour last Friday night while in liquor. He w*as rescued by a Maori, and two horns later he again fell in, and was rescued a si cond time.

The at tendance at the Christchurch'Exhibition to date Is 146,000. Cheap fares on the railways are adopted from June sth to 25th in connection with the Exhibition.

At the Christchurch Police Court on Jam- 2 Frank Henry Williams, formerly Cerk in the Railway Department, was committed for trial on three charges of embezzling Government funds to the amount of £143.

The outbreak of diptheria in St. Albans ia very serious. The b rough school has been closed by the Board of Health, who have ordered all the Sim ay schools ,-ilso to lie discontinued, and the health officer advi«ea the residents for the present lo avoid visiting one another ns much as possible. In one family three deaths have occurred in two days.

A strange discovery has b: en made at some sand hills near the Waikawa Beach. A few days ago two gentlemen living in the locality discovered .a great heap of skeletons that, had been uncovered by tie recent wind Some are nearly perfect, wiii e others are mixed up in a chaotic mass of heads, hands, feet, arms, legs, etc It must have been jnsuv yen s since the grave was tilled with its ghastly occupants, and it is of ennrso presumed that the remains are those of Natives.

In the Court of Appeal, Wellington on Saturday a new trial was granted in the case of Connor and Maclcay on five issues, dealing with timber transactions, and a now trial was refused on the other issues. Judgment was also given in the following Crown cases Regina v. Wnl Jemaim, the conviction was uphold and sentence is to be passed at the next sitting of the Supreme Court of Otago j in Regina v. Thomas the conviction was squashed. The Gazette published in London' on Tuesday, May 23, contains the- announcement of various preferments and appointments in the Order of St. Michael and St. George, including the following : —To be ordinary members of the second class, or Knights Commanders of the said Order : Mr. John Hall, late Premier of Row Zealand ; Colonel Whitmore, C.M.G., formerly Colonial Secretary of New Zealand ; Mr. Saul Samuel, C.M.G., Agent general of New South Wales in London. To be ordinary members of the third class, or Companions of the said Order Mr. H. Haytor, Government statist of Victoria; Mr. John Forrest, P.R.G.S., Australian explorer ; Mr Victor Williamson.

At the Christchurch Police Court on Tuesday morning, Bathurst Noel was charged with having assaulted and presented a revolver at a man named Dawkins at the Exhibition. The evidence showed that a dispute arose as to the price of comearticles on Dawkiu’s stall, and the latter called Noel a liar, at thefsame time ordering him away. Noel refused to go, when Dawkins knocked him down. Noel then presented a . revolver at him, but was prevented from using it. Noel, in defence, pleaded serious provocation, and said having lately been severely bitten by a dog he had since carried a revolver to protect himself. The statement about the dog was shown to be correct. The Bench remarked, that Dawkins had been the aggressor and dismissed the case, but confiscated the revolver. On Tuesday night David M’Neave was arrested for shooting with a revolver at J Glanvilleina hoarding-house, Christchurch. Jealousy is said to have been the cause of the offence The folio wing are the particulars of the shooting:—M'Neave, who had an affection for one of the servant girls, went home at about half-past eleven, having a revolver in his possession. He entered the passage, and looking through a small window saw the servant girl sitting at a table with William Glanville, who also lodges with Toomer. M‘Neave placed the muzzle of the revolver close to the wall in a line with where the two occupants of the kitchen were sitting on the opposite side, and discharged it. The ball, however’ did not pass through the wall, hut rebounded ■{probably on account of the muzzle being close to the wall), and inflicted a wound in the hoEdcr’s own hand. The occupants of the house were alarmed by the report, and the police were communicated with. M‘Neavo ran out of the house and could not be found, but ho afterwards surrendered himself to Sergeant Wilson