PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2751, 16 July 1885, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[united press association.! Ross, July 15, The United Gold Mining Company cleaned up for the month with 2520z5. 14dwts. Owing to the dry weather the elevators of the Prince of Wales paddock was only working, half time or the yield would have been much greater. Christchurch, July 15. At the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court to-day Ernest Bnckholz was fined £2O for smuggling ff|lbs of tobacco and 300 cigars from the steamer Glaucus. Thomas Hough and William Perceval were to-day found guilty before the Supreme Court of conspiracy with intent to defraud the New Zealand Ra ilway Department. Wellington, July 15. The twenty-one sailors who were sent to gaol in May last for refusing duty on board the steamer Coptic, have instructed Mr Shaw to take proceedings against the master and owners of the vessel for malicious prosecution. At the inquest on Robert Sailors, who poisoned himself with “Rough on Rats” yesterday, a verdict was returned that deceased died from the effects of poison administered by himself while suffering from the effects of drink. The jury added a rider to the effect that more stringent regulations should be enforced regarding the sale of “ Rough on Rats.” The City of Sydney with June English mails, left San Francisco for Auckland on the sth inst., one day late. A man named Fred. Stock was arrested this morning, on a charge of stealing an overcoat and valuable papers, amounting to £7OO, from the chief named Wieri Turoa, at Foxton. Auckland, July 15, The jury gave a verdict, for £BOO against the' Tramway Company for an accident by which Mr North lost his font. Dudley Ward, a man employed on a building in Wyndhara street, fell and sustained fatal injuries. At the civil session of the Supreme Court, Dr. Caldwell, of Kawakawa, recovered £SO damages against George Brewer, blacksmith, for slandering his professional ability in setting a leg of Brewer’s son. Dr. Caldwell is Bishop of the Madras, In the case of George Elliott, of Deniliquin, N.S.W., and Thomas Hancock, brewer, for an alleged libel published in “ Recollections of the Life of Thomas Hancock,” tin* judge summed up strongly for defendant. Verdict—damages, £2OO.

William Hancock, of the barque Notero, from Lyttelton, was iujiued while discharging cargo ; tho slings broke. The ease is regarded as hopeless. Dunedin, July 15. John Byfield, while lepairing the telephone lines, fell through a skylight of the building over which the wires passed, and received rather severe injuries. The Mayor has forwarded to the Minister of Public Works a petition signed by about 80 of the unemployed.