PROVINCIAL NEWS
. [united t’RESR ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, March 30, Judge Williams, iu reply to the inquiry by the Minister of Justice expresses the opinion that the woman Mary Morgan, under trial for infanticide, cannot be tried at the ensuing criminal sessions of the Supreme Court. The woman will therefore be released on bail, and in order to prevent a recurrence of any similar case. Mr Tola is communicating with Resident Magistrates requesting them in sending cases tor trial, to order that it shall be at the nearest and earliest Supreme Court.
The Premier will not return to Wellington for ten days.
The Colonial Secretary is expected to arrive by the Hinemoa towards the end of the week.
The police in Otago have effected the arrest of Thns. Gibson, ex clerk of Petone Town Board, who has been “ wanted ” for a considerable time on several charges for forgery with intent to defiand the corporation. The accused was taken into cnstody while working on Mr Pollock’s station, near Balclutha, where he has been employed for a number of months, and where he was known as Thomas Courtenay. He is charged with having on the 16th February, 1884, forged the name of M'Leod to an order for £27 17s 4d, with intent to defraud the Petone Board, and with having forged ail acceptance receipt for £lO Is on the 15lh May, with intent to defraud the board. He disappeared from Wellington about 18 months ago, and was only recently discovered on Pollock’s station. Twenty-four of the southern unemployed passed through here 10-day en route for Greymooth. Additions to the wharf will be completed in three months.
H. Corbett, formerly publican at Masterton, died there this morning of typhoid fever.
A man named Joseph Robertson, charged with attempted rape, has been remanded until to-morrow. Lawrence, March 30.
The Hon. Mr Larnach, Professor Black, Professor Brown (English Professor at the Otago University), and Mr Larnach, jun., left Lawrence this morning, en route for the West Coast, via Haast Pass.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2938, 31 March 1886, Page 2
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