PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2899, 12 February 1886, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[united I'HESS ASSOCIATION.] Nelson, February 10. A charge of shocking cruelly to a horse was heard at Brightwater Court to-day. William Norris and David Cnrrin were charged with cruelly beating and illtreating a horse by kicking and beating it, and pulling off a portion of its tongue, thereby causing it such torture and injury that it became necessary to destroy the animal. Norris pleaded guilty; Cnrrin was defended. Norris was sentenced to one month’s hard labour; Cnrrin was fined «£f) and costs. The horse refused to move, and, kicking, the defendants whipped and beat the horse. Norris ultimately caught hold of its tongue, some five inches of which came away! lie afterwards took the horse away and shot it. He stated in court that he had been drinking and knew of what occurred. °

Dunedin, February 11. Cardinal Moran was welcomed at the railway station, where about 1500 assembled. He was conducted to the new Cathedral, where addresses were read from the clergy and the laity, to

which he replied. After service fireworks were let off from the Bishop’s residence opposite the Cathedial. Arches decorated with evergreens were erected at the Cathedral and the Bishop’s residence.

Auckland, February 10. A boy four years of age, named Simon Millington, was run over by a tram car at Ponsonby and killed instantaneously. He got confused and ran past the front of the horses, was knocked down, and the wheel crushed his head.

February 11. The dead body a European (unknown) about 40 years old was found at Miranda beach on Friday last. The face was unrecognisable through decomposition. There were a number .of incised wounds or. the head caused apparently by a tomahawk. The jury returned a verdict that it was believed that deceased met his death by foul play.

Thames, February 11. Three miners named John Nicolls, Robert M‘Keown, and Samuel Barratt, tributors in the Moanatairi mine, were buried by a fall of mullock this morniug. Gangs of men are hard at work endeavoring to rescue them, but it is not expected that they will be able to leach them before to-morrow morning. It is believed that they are all alive, as they can be heard talking.