PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2375, 8 April 1884, Page 3

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, April 6. The police have arrested Nora Walsh, a single woman aged 22, of Oamaru, for the abandonment of a child found at Pine Hill on Friday night. The matron at the hospital, where the young woman had been for her confinement, has identified the child. The young woman left the hospital on Friday. April 7. A steerage passenger by the Himalaya, named John Mulhall, a single man, was found dead in his berth from consumption. He was ill when he joined the ship. A seduction case in which £250 damages are claimed will be heard at the Supreme Court to-morrow, before Mr Justice Williams. The plaintiff is Terence Dune, a commercial traveller, and the defendant Hugh Morris, a photographer. The plaintiff alleges that his daughter Mary Christina, aged 17 years, bore to the defendant a child, which died on February 20th last. The defendant denied the allegations in the plaintiff's statement of claim, Christchurch, April 7. The Cathedral bells were tolled on Saturday afternoon on the occasion of the Duke of Albany’s funeral, and the flags at Christchurch and Lyttelton wero hoisted half mast. The Freemasons have gone in mourning for a period of three months. The body of a man was found yesterday evening in the Waiu river. It has not been identified, bat from the appearance it is supposed to be that of a tramp, Wellington, April 7. All the Wellington churches were draped in mourning yesterday, as a mark of respect to the memory of the Duke of Albany. Auckland, April 7. The prisoner Goodward, who was found guilty of rape on Ellen Payne in the Domain, was sentenced to-day to five years’ imprisonment and two floggings of 25 lashes each. O O A MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN POISONED. Opunake, April 7, A terrible tragedy occurred here last evening. Mrs Plumbridge, a half-caste who formerly kept the Maori hostelry for the Government in Wellington, poisoned herself and two children. Her brother George Taylor was in the house, also a Maori boy named Touri, who lately had his arm amputated in the New Plymouth hospital. Taylor heard one of the boys retching and went in to see him. Mrs Plumbridge sent him to the constabulary tank for assistance, but did not say anything about the poison. When Taylor returned he found the mother and the other boy poisoned, also some letters and a written statement as to the cause of the poisoning which were left by the unfortunate woman. Constable Toome took possession of the effects, and telegraphed the particulars to the coroner. An inquest will bo held to-morrow.