PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2888, 7 January 1886, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[UNITED I’RESS ASSOCIATION.! Invercargill, January 6. James Delaney and Jeremiah Ryan were drinking in the former’s house at Georgetown last night, when a quarrel look place, daring which Delaney stabbed Ryan in the neck. The wound is not dangerous, although within an eighth of an inch of the jugular artery. Delaney was arrested and brought op to-day and remanded, being admitted to bail. Dunedin, January 6. One hundred men were to-day engaged to proceed to Melbourne for the Union Shipping Company as lumpers in connection with the strike, the rate of wages 45a per week. The men leave to-morrow. The office is quite besieged by applications. At the Supreme Court to-day, Henry Deester, for embezzlement, three years; Robert Dickson, embezzlement, three years; Alice Clayton and W. Harris, robbery, six months; Joseph Bland, for embezzling £590 5s 9d and £55 19s from his employer, Stewart Dawsou, was found guilty on both counts, and sentenced to five years The Court was occupied nearly all day with the charge of indecent assault against John Noonan, the jury finally acquiting him. The South Dunedin murder case comes on to-morrow. His Honour ordered the sum of £8 2s fid, found on Dickson, to be refunded to Messrs Marshall and Copeland, and £34, found on Bland, to be refunded to Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co, Auckland, January 6, Frederick Neve Russell, for many years chief clerk of the Native Office, Wellington, also first northern representative of the Maori electorate, who arrived iu Fiji three weeks ago from New Zealand, died at Suva. He broke a blood vessel. Richard Dean Pollock, settler, of Wainku, who fell from bis horse the other day, died yesterday from concussion ot the brain. An inquest is to be held. John Meehan was convicted yesterday of indecent assault and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and 25 lashes with a cat. William Bennot received a sentence of nine months’ imprisonment for forging and uttering, the sentence to run concurrently. Gisborne, January 6. Asa result ot the inquiry by the Hospital Committee, Bintield and his wife wardsoian and matron, have been dispensed with. Tiie evidence showed that there had been unlimited drink and a great orgie and disturbance among the wardsman and patients, also unlimited visiting by men to the female ward.