INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 124, 8 April 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

♦■ (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Wellington. April 7. The evidence given this afternoon in the charge of murder against W. J. Smith was merely a recapitulation of thai in the morning, nnd ot little interest. Several witnesses hive yet to be ex nmined, hut it is expected the ci<e for Hie Crown will finish to-morrow forenoon. Parliament has been formally prorogued until 13th May. Tlruji not definitely decided, it is understood Thursday, Jun-» 22, is the day on which Parliament will meet. The Factory Inspector is nbout making a tour of the city to enforce the law re employment of children. It is stated that both boys and girls^below the proper age are at work in some establishment*. In the Supremo Court to day, argument in the case of the Tolonial Bank v. Mr Kennedy Mucdonald and his wife, which bus been before the Court for the iast fortnight, concluded. His Honor the Chief Justice reserved judgment. This Day. In the a<jsion brought by the Colonial Bank against Mr* McDonald, the Chief Justice gave judgment for the Bank for principal L 4500 and interest at seven per cent aud costs, the Bank to give credit in full for net routs received. Mr Graham, R.M, dismissed tho charge of murdering Jacobsou against Smith on the ground the evidence was not strong enough to send tho case befoie a jury. The prisoner was discharged. Ashbukton, April 7. John Nelson, a young man, a swagger, has been committed for trial for a criminal assault on a girl of 13, the daughter of a respectable farmer. The girl was going a message on horseback at eight in the morning of Faster Mon« day. Prisoner stopped her, asking direc tton, pulled her from her horse into a ditch and while struggling was alarmed by an approaching cart, and ran away ; He was captured and clearly identified.