LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1129, 12 May 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Christchurch, May 10. The adjourned cases wherein various persons were charged with obstructing the night-soil contractor were disposed ot to-day at the Resident Magistrate’s Court. Contrary to expectation, the charges presented quite an amusing aspect. The' Resident Magistrate has decided that .the fact of an entrance gate being locked at night is decidedly not an obstruction, and further that the fact of finding nothing to remove, implied removal by some person other than.the contractor, who cannot be regarded as an obstruction. As to whether persons were justified' in using excrbta in their gardens, his Worship declined to express.an Opinion.

May 11. • The Rey. .Father Rinsfield, -Roman Catholic priest, Ashley district/ was -: nearly drowned te/fey/ Nb particulars have come to Hand, but he seems to have been, crossing the Ashley nyor, when his .buggy was upiet' and'washed ilown the river. •. The horse'was drowned and' himself only saved’ with difficulty.' * V .. > : ~ ; iiMARu/.May ; io. " ■» Some stacks of pats at the Hook, belonging to j.. Rowland, \vere. burnt down and also a core ejevator belonging" to M.'Goweran and Hardy. The former * ‘ was uninsured, the latter covered by' a; £3OO risk in the v " v

■ WELLINGTON) Mayi'lL (At the Appeal Court to-day,,, his Honor the Chief Justice, .and Justices Williams and Johnston referred in feeling terms to.the-lamented death ..of Mr.. Macassey, of Dunedin, and the loss the bench, bar, and public had sustained through his death. Mr Stout spoke in similar terras, and felt sure that Mr Macassey’s family in their bereavement would have the sympathy of the whole of the profession.

Auckland, May 10. Great preparations are being, made for Sir G. Grey's meeting. His. coin- . mittees have sent invitations to the representatives of the Oddfellows Society, the Orange Society, the Forest- , ers, Good Templars, Working Men’s, Club, Bricklayers’ Association, Carpenters’ Society, Hibernian Society,, the Mayors of Auckland, Thames, Parnell, and Onehunga, together with members of the House ef Representatives, Legislative Council, and leading city and country residents.

The inquest, on <he Jtodj of (ho marine floating in the harbor yesterday resulted in a verdict of foifpd drowned. Tie was identified -as Abel Hetherington, servant to Captain Braced' H.M.S. Cormorant, It is believed he fell over the whaif in going down to meet bis boat.

By the Meg Merrilies, from Levuka, intelligence has bedn received of the murder of an American named John* ston, of the firm of Johnston and Chaffin, by the Natives of the Island of Aoha.

May 11. The funeral of Hetheringtoo the marine of H.M.S. Gorinoraut took place this day. The crew of the German warship Nautilus, paid last honors to the unfortunate deceased.