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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 190, 18 July 1883, Page 2

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INTERPROVINCIAL. (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. Christchurch, July 16. The Resident Magistrate held to-day that Government had no power tocharg' one fee io* license to shoot pheasants and another to shoot hares, aid dismissed with costs the information laid hy the Acclimatisation Society. A lad named William Vizior was 'ccidentally shot m the arm this afrer •icon by another lad while shooting sparrows with a snvill revolver. ■ The injury is considered serious. Twenty-one cases were brought up for hearing at the Kaiapoi Resident Magistrate's Court against a number of parents who have not sent children to school, and peremptory orders weie made, or a fine of 10s m ' ; ach case. ft is reported that a shepherd on a station nsar Rakaia Gorge has picked up a !ar#c piece >f quartz, whi;h, wh«;n broken, showed go d freely ; also, that a number of prospectors are fossicking "baut that district. Arrangements have been made by the Methodist Union Committee for receiving replies on the subject from thp various (Jhurch authorities. A. Com any h s recommended for publishing a vr«ekty Methodist p<per.. It is expected the first conference of the United Church will be held m January 1885. Dunedin, July 16. At the r 'es:dent Magistrate's Coart George Mcßride sued Joseph Osmund vl iyor of rfouth Dunedin, for £20 lam igesffor assault and battery. This jase ar>se oat of the celebrated rowdy proceedings at the Borough Council mcc ings, and the a' ege3 assault conconsisting m plaiutiff beinsj removed b) the police through defendant's orders. A.fter healing a lot of evidence, judgment was reserved. . The football team is considered one of the strongest that ever took the field to represent Ocaso. laiaro'a's absence (owing to broken collar bone) is greatly regretted ; but he will go North to witness the games. Mr Black, reporting on a number of samples of alcoholic liquors seiaed by the police m Dunedin and country districts, says the brandies ranged from proof to 32 under | whiskey from 10 to 27 under; rums from proof to 50 under; gins, about 22 under. He eompl«ms ot the undue prevalence of table salt m beer, and m nearly all the brandies he found excessive quantities of tannin. The police intend prosecuting several hotelkeepers. - "Westport, July 16. A little boy, adopted by Joseph Sullivan, a laborer, got on the railway line at Waimangaroa, and was struck by the cowcatcher of the engine. His aim was broken and other serious wounds sustained: The arm has been amputated but he is not expected to recover. Gisborne, July 17. Kenneth Ketr, editor of a newspaper called Pacts, has been committed for trial ior libelling Mr W. L. Bees.