INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 107, 4 March 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITBD PHKSB ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, March 1. Henry George arrived by the Mariposa. O'Connor, Jt'he oarsman, was also a passenger by the Mariposa. Wellington, Tin* Day. Arrived — Barque Farsee from Montevideo. Sailed on Ist February. A saloon passenger named Albert Bertwistle, died of consumption. . The action brought by Mr Fisher, M.H.8., against Mrs Moss for molesting him in the street was heard this morning. The defence was that Mr Fisher really owed defendant money; but he positively denied this, and challenged her to sue him. The R.M. said he was not hearing a case of debt. If the money was owing the defendant could sue. He refused to permit any evidence of the alleged debt to be given, and bound Mrs Moss to keep the peace in one surety of £10, or in default one month's imprisonment. Notice of appeal was given. George Fisher, M.H.R., was proceeded against in the police court to find secuvi ties to keep the peace for calling Tom Carter "a sycophant and the biggest lickspittle that ever came -to the colony." The words were proved as having been used, but the B.M dismissed the oase. The. telegram from Dunedm re the capture of . Jonathan Roberts seems to luve been the wish father to' the thought. The only news received so far as any officials appear to know, was a statement of bis expected recapture, but that he is actually caught is not known. Bbefton, This Day. At the District Court yesterday a fresh trial of James Allen, for amalgam robbery, begun. Counsel for the prisoner applied for a change of venue. The Prosecution opposed. Judge Broad said there was no disguising the fact that a strong feeling existed locally to prejudice a fair trial. He thought it best, in the interests of justice, to send the trial to the Supreme Court at Hokitika. The case was accordingly remanded to Hokitika on the 17th March. Thirty witnesses were bound over. # -» ■ ' A young man named Alfred Bryan was drowned in the Inangahua river yesterday while bathing. The weather is still hot and water for mining purposes is badly wanted. Westpobt, Mnrcli 3. A man named John Harris committed suicide this evening, by shooting himself through the head. Dunbmn, Mnrch 3 At the sitting in bankruptcy to-day, Mr Williams suspended for two years the discharge of John Maitland Jones, of Proctor, Jones and Co., chiefly on the ground that he made reckless statements with a view to making out that the firm was in a better position than it really was, and an overstatement in the balance submitted to the Colonial Bank in 1887. The St. Clai^; leper died on Saturday afternoon. "' ; -