INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 112, 29 March 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[per united press association.! Dunebin. March 26. Mr Barron, M.H.R., intends: testing ■ | the feeling of the House by moving, • when the Representation Bill is in. com- ! mittee, that the number of members gball be reduced to 60. Mr Fergus, M.H.R. will propose the adoption of a modifij cation of the Hare system. At the Supreme Court to-day, the case of Meskell v. the Tuapeka County Coun--1 nil was concluded. This was: a claim for 1 £498 damages caused through plaintiff losing his horses, waggons, etc., through alleged negligence of the Council in not : keeping the punt on the Molyneux in ■ good order. The County Council hud i passed regulations limiting the lead to i be put on the punt, which was only reestablished while a bridge was being built The plaintiff had more than this load but the Judge held that the County . could no more direst itself of responsi- ' biht? For the punt that it could for the road. The jury returned a verdict for Meskell for £400 and costs. Auckland, March 28. Mr Justice Ward has directed that the divorce action Gordon v. Gordon should be tried before himself, without a jury, at the close of the next civil sessions. Mr Justice Ward has suspended the discharge of Samuel Coo m bes, bankrupt, for six months. The Judge said the case did not look as serious as he thought, but the bankrupt acted a little recklessly. In 1885 he had made a series of preferential payments, while other creditors got nothing, Woodvilie, This Day. R. G. Williams, lately carrying on a saddlery business in Woodville, has been committed for trial on a charge of forg* ing two signatures on the back of a p.n. forL4_2s2d. E. A. Haggen was last night presented with a haadflome tea urn on the occasion of his leaving tht* district. Wellington, This Day. The defence works of Jho colony having advanced near completion, it is intended that the Public Works officers, who has been superintending the construction shall be withdrawn, and remainder work carried on bv permanent artillery under Mr Arthur Bell as ennin r Patea. This Day. . A man named Jas. Frederick Th m ison, charged with forcing the name of '■ James W. Dickie, of "Waverley, to a : cheque of L9 15s, was brought before C. " A. Wray, Esq., and fully committed for trial nt the next sittings of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth. , '.