NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 229, 31 March 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association. Mastehton, March 29. The case in which Phillips, ol the Occidental Hotel, appealed against a conviction for Sunday trading ou February 2nd last, concluded to day in the District Court, Judge Kettle reserving his decision. A uukland, March 30. Edward McCrossey was drowned in Trmaki River through the capsiziDg of a dingy this morning. Justice Connolly sat at the Supreme Court under the Divorce and Matrimonial Court Act. The case was that in which George Bo3\vell Howard, hotelkeeper, was petitioner, Annie Howard respondent and William Tugone "Whittly co-respondent. Both petitioner and respondent are well known in Auckland. Petitioner sought for a decree nisi for disolution of marriage on the ground of respondents adultery with the co-res-pondent. Mr Theo. Cooper appeared for petitioner, and E. C. Bloomfield for co-respondent. No defence was filed, but co-respondent denied the adultery. The evidence is sensational. An attempt was made to burglarise the premises of Parrtidge and Williams, tobacconists, Queen street. On tampering with a door it started McDermott's pa.tent burglar alarm. The thieves in fright cleared, leaving their skeleton keys in the door. They had cut a hole through a window with a diamond preparatory to taking it out. The Rev. Check Hong Cheong, a Chinese missionary, arrived by the Waihora from Sydney with a view to touring New Zealand and inquiring as to the condition of the Chinese in the Colony. At the Auckland Swimming Club's eports on 8 uurday, the Provincial Cham pionship, 100 yds, waa won by F. A. Hedges. Three thousand people were present, Wellington, This Day. The dead body, evidently that of a labouring rnau, about 45 years of age, was found floating in the harbour this morning. It had been in the water some time, and the features were unrecognisable. Invbrcargill, This Day. An inquest on the body of Elizabeth Stenton, aged 18, a domestic servant, commenced ten days ago, was finished to-night, the jury returning a verdict to the effect that the death was causad by peritonitis following upon an illegal act, but that there was no evidence to show by whom or in what manner it was performed. Dunedin March 30. George Taylor, aged 85, an outdoor patient at the Hospital, lias been found dead in bed at Moray place. A married woman named Sarah Strachau, 86 j'ears of age, died at the Hospital yesterday from the affects of chloroform while being examined prior to an operation. Christchuech, March 80. At the iuquest concerning the death of the girl Hester Mitchell, killed on the Sumner tramway, a verdict was re turned of accidental death. The tramway officials were exonerated from any blame, but a rider was added that the Tramway Company should nioro strictty enforce the by law against jumping off trams in motion.