DOMINION NEWS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2283, 31 August 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WANGANUI, August 29

1 A man named Fraser, an attendant at the Hospital, nearly lost his life yesterday. About 11 o’clock two fishermen in a boat saw a man lying n the water on the river beach, near one Hospital. He was waving a hind, and the fishermen on going to hi.; assistance found him almost drowned. The man explained that he had felt ill, and went to the beach for a walk, when he became dizzy and fell down. Ho was powerless to move, and tlio rising tide covered him. When found the man was unable to use his legs, and had to be. carried to tlie hospital.

WELLINGTON, August 30. In Chambers yesterday, before Mr. Justice Cooper, a nolle prosequi was entered by the Crown in respect of tho case of Wallace Herbert Stewart, who was recently tried in the Supreme Court a second time on the same charge of forgery. -The Jury, it will be remembered, disagreed last week. Tlie action will thus go no further.

At the Supreme Court yesterday tho marriage of Evelyn McLennan, or White, to John White was declared null and void, on the ground that tho former wife of tile respondent was alive when the latter marriage was celebrated. A decree nisi was granted in the case of Helen Ritchie Ball v. Alfred Ball, on the grounds of desertion.

At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Mr. W. P. James, S.M., sent John William Croker to prison for 14 days without the option of a fine for using obscene language to a barmaid. The Britisli-lndia steamer Ihaura, irofPC'.ileutta direct, arrived at Wellington yesterday. She brings a cargo of 3695 tons of gunny bags, Done meal and oil, 1328 tons of which is for Wellington and tlie remainder for Auckland.

There are eleven coolie passengers on board who are bound for the Fiji plantations. A coolie child died of bronchitis on the run down. The crew number 100, which includes firemen. They aro all colored men, butno trouble lias been experienced with them, and so far as could be learned they are untouched by the disaffection which is supposed to bo fairly general in Bengal. Tlie political trouble, in airy case, did not affect the shipping at Calcutta. There were a good many vessels in port when the Ihaura left that were waiting for charters, shipping business being unusually dull an India, at the moment.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 30. The body of a female child, much decomposed, was- found in Hagley Park on (Saturday evening by the police. At the inquest held to-day, Chief-Detective Bishop stated that he found the body on the bank of the Avon River to the south of Victoria Lake, lying two or three feet away from the river, and only a few yards off the recognised • track. The body had no clothing, but was partly covered with dry leaves, which had dropped from the surrounding trees Dr. Byrnes, who made a post mortem examination, said the body was that of awfully-matured female child. The umbilical cord had been cut, but thero was no ligature on it. The child appeared to have . breathed a short time. There were no apparent marks of violence, and the child had probably been dead from throe to five weeks- The jury returned a verdict that there was no evideuco to show the cause of death. DUNEDIN, August 30. At the Supreme Court on the 17tli inst., Daisy Edwards, aged 20, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of unlawfully permitting an instrument to be used on her. JSho was liberated yesterday, the Governor having remitted tho remainder of the sentence. At the inquest on the body of James Carter, found dead in bed at Sawyer’s Bay, with a pea-rifle by Ilia side and a bullet wound in his head, tho medical evidence showed deceased had been treated for cancer in the tongue and lower jaw. Deceased underwent an operation for this disease about a month ago, but refused to submit .to another one. On Thursday, however, ho consented to go to Dunedin the following day for X-ray treatment. The jury returned ‘a verdict that deceased died from a gunshot wound self-iufljcted, while in ;t state of temporary insanity.