INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 147, 4 June 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PEE UNITED PJRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, June 2. B.D. O'Halloran, lately Chief Postmaster at Whansjarei, was this morning sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of five charges of embezzlement, to which be had pleaded guilty on Tues« day last,' the sentences to run conour» rently. There was. a full house at the Choral J Hall last night to hear Madame Patey, the audience overflowing on to the orches- ! tra. All the best seats are booked for to-night.. The season is the best on record. Madame Patey sang to the old people at the Costley Home this morning. In the case against Mr Collins, mine manager at Huntiy, of neglecting to properly timber the drive which collapsed on-Mr. Kalph's property, judgment was given against him, and he was finpd £20 and costs. The costs amount to £67, and , the other expenses will,' it is' said, be be-' tween £500 and £60:). Two more consumptive patients have been treated with the Koch lymph in the hospital. Some of the friends .of Mr W. S. Allenintend to petition Parliament to remove the disqualification, imposed on him by tne Judges in the late election petition case. DXTNEDTN, Jun 2. Mr Carew, R.M", «ave judgment for plaintiff in' a case brought against one of a number of men employed in the soap factory, for four parts of Brett's Early History of ISew Zealand, ashedidnot consider that the eyidence of fraud was substantial enough to do away with the force of a signed document. There was no evidence that the men were prevented from reading the printed- do.curaent. I Wellington, June 3. The Chief Justice gave his decision this afternoon upon the application for a special jury in the case against Coleman Phillips, for dummyism. He said that in looking into what authorities there were, be had concluded that this was a case in which a speeial jury might properly be granted on the defendant's application. Christchtjbch, June 3. The Sydenham Licensing Committe« have met and adjourned for a week p'-nd-ing- the judgment of the Supreme Court, in which they are interested. Dun f.dij.% This Day. ■ It is understood the City Licensing Beucb. decided to close seven houses forth with and five others during the current year and another five in twelve months afterwards. - ...