INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 7, 2 July 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

:- -♦ . ■ ■ . : (PEB UKITBD PBVSS ASSOCIATION.) ; . Tattbanoa, July 1. . Wm- Kelly's ; store the Public Hall at Ohinemutu were destroyed by fire this morning. They: were- insured in the Union for £800. The origin is unf known. An inquest will be held. -_■ ' v- ': y:,:. , s HAWBBA,.JuIy 1. \ The inquest on Mr Clere resulted in a verdict of suicide while labouring under temporary insanity. . \_ ;...;. • , Auckland, June 29. ; At the Supreme Court , to-day a charge ■ of perjury against Alex Campbell arising but of the celebrated Ohinemutu case, Mrs v Trustee of the estate of late Robert Graham' heard last " year, broke down on a carious technical point. The indictment stated the prisoner had bepn sworn upon the Gospel of God in giving evidence in that case, but it itranspirod that he had taken, the oath upon a Hebrew bible,' being a Jew, and this having been ruled not ti be the Gospels. The case broke down the Crown Prose* cutor entering, a nolle prosequi. ,-,•: • . • ■-.._ , .Mab^ojn, July, 1; i Mr A. E. Eemmgton one of the 'can;didates for the Eancitikei seat addressed' a meeting ot Balls last 1 night. There was a good attendance. ' and the meeting was, T( orderly ' throughout. A vote :of thanks only was carried, by & small "majority; only about one third of those present voting. ' " . c . , , ' CHBISTCHtBCH, July 1, \ Mr Montgomerf is announcing in the Bolumns of the Akaroi Mail that he will not stand _ again, his medical, officer laving forbidden him. M"r Montgomery's Friends have been aware that he was Tiueh indisposed, but bad no idea the llness was serious enough to present him Tom taking his accustomed position. '