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Evening Star, Issue 3854, 1 July 1875, Page 3

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Mr Green, Secretary iij Public Works, and Mr Arthur, Provincial Engineer, arc now in Southland, the object of their visit being to satisfy themselves, by personal inspection, of the position of matters in connection with the light railways and other works in progress in that district. An article in yesterday’s ‘ Southland Times ’ concludes thus " It will be the most pusillanimous submission on our part if Mr Reid is suffered to thrust upon us a member of the Executive who’has shown himsel on this, as on every other occasion, deaf to the expressed will of the community.” A private telegram from Queenstown says “ It is reported here that the cock pheasants forwarded by the Acclimatisation society for liberation in the Wakatip district have been aten.” ihe whole of this day’s sitting in the R.M. Court was occupied with the adjourned case of Spedding and Hepburn (trustees) v. Thomas Fraser—a-claim of 1.2 15s 6d for law costs incurred in declaring George Porriman a bankrupt, in which judgment was given for the plaintiffs with costs. Mr K. S. Borne, who has resided and carried on business in Invercargill for nearly thirteen years, died on Tuesday afternoon. In the cat ly fiart of last wt ek he looked healthy and rheernl, as he was always wont to do, but on Friday ho complained of a cold, and remained within doors. He did not leave hia house afterwards, and he died at the time above stated of inflammation of the lungs, superinduced by a cold. Mr Borne was well known as an enthusiastic cricketer, was much respected by all who knew him, was a native of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, and was only thirty-seven years of age. He-leaves a wife and children. Before Mr M'Culloch, R.M., at Invercargill, a girl named Agnes Roberstson was charged with having escaped from the Industrial School at Look-out Point, Caversham, It appeared she had been put out to service a fortnight after her admission into the school, and in reply to the Bench she stated that a friend, of her father had paid her passage to Invercargill by . the Express, on board of which vessel she had been arrested by Constable Mee. The Bench having commented on the fact that-she had been sent to service so soon after admission, “ordered her to be sent back again.—\Vm. Flynn was charged with having threatened (o set fire to the Wiaton Hotel on the 26tb.

If appeared that accused, who is a saddler, rented a shop from Mr Devereux adjoining the Winton Hotel, and had, while drunk, threatened to light a fire in tho shop, which had no fireplace. It was stated in evidence that accused when drunk behaved in a very violent manner, but was hard-working and industrious when sober. Inspector Fox said that /sometime ago the accused while a passepger by the Wanganui had thrown himself overboard twice, and had been convicted several times on charges of assault and drunkenness. Prisoner, who denied the charge, was bound over to keep the peace for six months, himself in L4O and two sureties of L2O each. The prizes presented by Mr G. K. Turton to the High School boys for swimming, boxing, and cricket will be awarded at 11 a.m. tomorrow.