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Evening Star, Issue 4086, 31 March 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

. Tlio Govemor White Island and, knd at.Taurahga, ' after leaving HislstaV xh’ before 1 the itteetihg of Parliament. '' | ; Focr young raento-day were' cMrgedwith aesauitingMc add 'Saturday night.—GonstableGambiedeposetl' that-tp'Wards^midnight h&saw'a erowd ih Newton, '; in. which ■ were jadsonera . and complainant, were under the influence of liquor. Bh told them to go home, as ;'tthe3^3y©re^<n^tkig dancing ami banjo playing. Next morning . Price came ;vtdMd^e.cha^'.~i^Trice% - evidence set out that she and her husband but'were not with piisdheriiV 1 ShV- deposed to the .v andr-B; M/Ihupyle": first assanltirig; her husbanded then robbing her of money and When she at- ; tempted to s ©ream f she' was gkgged arid " atriick viblent H- oit thehead, She was then grossly insulted f hy one, and, dragged across the road to .a green patch,hear which David attempted a criniinal assault. The evidence here is unfit for publication.' She struggled withj jdi her mi; nut and- tore prisoner’s face, when he struck n er.in.the mouth, cutting her .Jip. and; filling;! icr month .with blood; and r-threatened to cihoke her if she screamed. After farther ,i’ 11-treatment ‘she-, became insensible. Donaldson and Lodge, the two other prifcottCrs, detained her husband while others wereassrrtilting her. Whbri to.sho waa lyinjg in the middle of the road. . She is still suffer Ing from her injuries. Concluding her evi jd< mce, Mrs Price said the men who attacked 'near were quite strangers. She had never spoken. to them previously," and was quite sober. She got up from the road, >. and managed to get to .a cottage, but . was too exhansted to t ell her story, Mr Joy, counsel for the • defence, ‘ cross - examined her. She- said tho constable made a mistake in saying she was under the influence of liquor: : She had only taken a glass of ale and half a glass of brandy that evening. When • she camie to. it waa daybreak. Her husband reported- the matter to the police.—Alex. Young, rnedical practitioner, deposed to the hature ol the injuries inflicted upon complainant Her lip was cut, one of her front • 'teeth was knocked out, there was a wound on hey nose, and several braises on her legs and other parts, of her body* She had evi- - dentl; f* beep,; roughly traded.- Benjamin O’Ha » corroborated the statement' of the ffrat Afr ; and Mrs, Price ahg alOug the foad,’ apparently thh worse -for tiqnof. Price gave hia evidence as to the Mftralt. i ’ When.Jus wife' screamed, wad he • trie jcl’ to go to her assistance, D, MTUnoyle kn (H >ked him down and ; hammered him till he b ecstoie insensible. He denied that he of wffe Was drank.-—Prisoners were all c<im- < r ior 4aial.- =.The case created great excitl meat,

' Napier,. March 30. I he Governor arrived at four o’clock. He was welcomed by the .Mayor, Corporation: Society, and a large ntUD ber of the general public. The Corpomtion and Foresters presented addresses, to . wmchthe Governor replied. He was b« urtaly, received, will hold a We to-mor-Ww, and attend the ball in the afcenW U a visit- is expected to be' only lor ten di vys. - ••

■ March 30. t?, tenders have been received for the Blueskm contract’of the Dunedin 'ti oe f ak Accepted : David Dunedin £45,000. Declined : A. J. Smyth, £45,171, and J. MathesoU and *wO.. both of Dunedin, £46,468; Allen and Stumbles, Timarn, £49,669; D. Henderson ajd Co., Dnnedm, £50,913 ; Charles Abbott, Dunedin, £63,500.

, . March 31. ; The remaining subscriptions for' the Fidelity Guarantee Society, of about LIO.OOO, have been obtained at Auckland. This completearthe ■ amount" of-- capital required, L 50,000. A meeting of the Wellington promoters will be held forthwith, and the formation of the company be duly declared in a few-dhyst v '