PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2570, 17 September 1884, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[united press association.]

Wellington, September 15. Telegrams received to-day give a most favorable report of the position of the wreck of the ship Lastingham and the prospects of a large quantity of salvage being obtained. The police have on hand, and will in due course hand over to the asssignee in the estate of William Poppens, money sufficient to pay in full all claims against the estate, as well as all the cost of arresting him in Australia Both M'Grath and Poppens are out on bail. The latter's case will be gone into to-morrow.

The Rev. Mr Still, at present living in England, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. Mr Tborpe as Incumbent of St. Paul's.

Daniel Mahoney, for having bitten off the nose of James Fearon, was today committed for trial.

A meeting of the New Zealand Riflo Association to consider proposals to hold the next meeting here was called for last night, but fell through owing to none of the Executive Council being present.

The petition of George Longlmrst is being considered by the Public Petitions Committee.

Invercargill, September 15. The boy Frank Marisco was committed to trial on a charge of manslaughter. The accused threw a poker at his brother Joseph, in a dark room, and missed him, striking his brother on the head, who died from the effect.

Giseorne, September 15. A man named Finlayson has been arrested at Tuaperua for suspected incendiarism of his store. It is stated that only last week an insurance policy was effected on the building. Dunedin, September 15. The tender of Messrs 11. Goulstou and Co., of Hokitika, was accepted in the estate of J. S. Nerock, draper, for the sum of .53600 cash.

The flags of the shipping were at half-mast to-day, for tha death of Mrs Hack worth, wife of the Collector of Customs.

Hugh M'Fadven, who was Town Clerk of the North Bast Valley Borough,

died on Sunday. He was seized with an apopletic fit on Thursday evening, after the excitement of the election for councillors, and never recovered. He came to Dunedin in 1847.

M Naseby, on the Uth inst., an elderly man named Dugald Sinclair, was brought up before the Magistrate on a charge of assaulting his sister-in. law, Mrs Welet. The womau refused to prosecute, and the case was dismissed. Two hours subsequently the woman died very suddenly and Sinclair was arrested for manslaughter. At the inquest the evidence showed the assault was not so serious as has been supposed, although Sinclair had been seen brandishing a knife, and striking deceased with a space. The medical evidence, however, was to the effect that deceased suffered from fatty degeneration of the heart, and her condition was such that death wa*s likely to happen at any moment. There were no external marks of violence. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned, and Sinclair was discharged.