INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 107, 28 February 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

| (PEB PBEB3 ASSOCIATION). , Wellington, February 27. No action is to be taken in the ense of i Mr W. T. Wood, Palmerston Justico of i ihe Peace, upon whom the Wellington > Land Board passed some strictures in ; connection with the Forest Reserves j Special Settlement Enquiry. Mr W. T. Wood wrote to the Minister of Justice explaining he had erred in ignorance and from the newness to the requirements of his office, and the Minister decided to accept the explanation. William James Smith, alias Win. Aidridge was brought up at court this morn , mg, charged with tho murder of Jacob Jacobson, at Tutukara, on or about November, 20th, 1890. No evidence was taken, and he was remanded to March 6th. Mr Coates appeared for the de« . fence, This Day. James Oeange was charged with shooting Theophilus George Love an tho shouldor at the R.M. Court. Prisoner had been looked on as prosecutor's stopson, but in his evidence Love said ho 1 had been living with Mrs Oeango as raau 1 and wife for eighteen years, According to his statement he had quarrelled with her and was smashing the house with an axe which he veld in an attitude threatening Mis Goange when the prisoner Ured his revolver and hit him in tho shoulder and he afterwards fired again, missing. There- had been a struggle before in which he got a rib broken. The wound was not dangerous but bad kept prosecutor in • the hospital for throe weeks. , The hrst annual meeting of the N.Z. Rugby Umon is called for April 20th at Wellington. Affiliated Unious are al- , readj requested to hold their meetings and cousider tho best moaus of selecting a team for Australia. Auckland, February 27. A young man named 11. M. Madill, clerk, in the employ of the Tramway , Company, has reported to the police that he was robbed of forty pounds while counting money at the counter of tbe Bank of New Zealand. He says that a stranger tapped him on the shoulder, telling him that he had dropped a note. Madill stooped to pick up the pound, which he found was not his, but in the meantime a calico bag which he had on fche counter, containing forty pounds, disjappeaved.—and. so did the stranger. |