INTERPROVINCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 49, 26 January 1884, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

■.-■:-,, ♦ ■. ■ " • - / '- (united press association:) s ' ' Attck:lani>, January 25. . A.taan named Henry Woods was arf sted ostensibly on a charge of vagrancy^ but m reality V is'suspected °* incendiar. ism.:- Be; 'is .-reported to. have slept on the premises ; burnt down last night at Mount Edfen. ! t , „ .. ■ ' The annual report of the bailors , Rest showed that 10,000 seamen had visited the institution during the year.. Bishop Cowfc to* re-elected president.. „ .,.. The Taapiri Coal Comp.auy have de a clared^' ! dividend iythi? rate of. 15 per cent per annum.' The output of coal for the toUfiyeVwas 18,000' tons. The Junction Hotel at Coromandel, M. Kelly" pr^rr&6r;Was burned down. Th*re, are rid- insurances as far is known. The origin I'of1 'of the 6re is unknown. Wellington, January 25. Tbe<gross 'tonnage ot vessels entered in* ward at Wellington during 1883 exceeded, that of 1882 by 100,000 tons. ■ At the Supreme Court to-day the case of Hams v. Gfeatrex acd Son, claiming £500 c taa ; mages foralleged wrongful dis-; missal, was heard. The phinliS had beeri. engaged m England to ?orae out and manage :Bi th'e 'New Zealand business, of Charles Greatrex, and Spn, saddlers.-of Wasall (Efiila'nd>, and Welhnßton Be commenced duty here m March last, was fiumnWrily diurnissed at the end oF May for alleged misconduct bordering on insanity. The question for the special jury "was whether the ylaintuVs be* haviour was so eccentric and . ridiculous as to justify instant dismissal. The jury found for the .plaintiff, assessing , the damages at r£'3so'Witri 1 c i oßt9 > . o ■ CnßistfdiiUßCHj- Jariuary'2s. The Supreme Court has been 1 occupied since-Monday morning with an action by Crerar and another- against the New Zealand Grain Agency in-r*spect of an amount ipaidr by the! Ajppehey to Desborougb, a partner of Crerpr, on account of a contract entered' into previous to the partnership. Deshorough had arranged, to c^oTerpaia'Miy 1 the, Agency who believed they 'were pMnjJ'the new firm and npt Jfom individual The Judge m summinßs.upf-fiaWrttmt had been committed by. Desbiorougb,, ./ The^uestion •was wtp"hßd'VeerA. defrauded. . The jury, <three ' fourthsj ' found for .pla.intiff £24(>7. «s Id. "TV wasVs r pecial oase. .\ .. Dtinedin, January 25. By a fire'ftt Lawrence on Wednesday evening Mr Talcher's store was.-burnedr down.^Beside* 5 his own stock of building materials/goods 'stored for others. were burned».4 probably valued^^t £300 aAd^opcoyewd hj insurance. - 1 he premisea \yere; (insured m the ; Colonia l; office tor' £lso. Incendiarism : is mar., pectedf" 1^" v ; ' T- ' l , ;i A telegram . from Queensland, . JUake Wak«tipu,sayk the Ooverndr proposes to take up hisrecidence there for a month,.. each year. ,u'."»-- ', , - "'X A peculiaf • cafle came before thebupM reme Cowf ,tp-day. Jt-Mto -Aat.of Ellen B. Forder t: M Brown. Th« parties had: cohabited for 19 years, and now plaintiff sued to be held a partneFin the proper^ acquiradijfiOne ipoint taken for 'the defence was thatasiplaintiffbttd £200 m the bank, which she placed there out of the busineM^a. daijpjiijißoe had considerably : the best of ft, „jftia Honor, reservedhis judgmenti An important sale of Merino sheep washeld "£<&%. the flock : "was Q,.' ,C Boyce'4^«F Kaward Falls station. There -was spirited competitioH, and altogeth«r i9jOoosh«ep were sold ia-lots from i,600 to 3,500. Ewes fcrqught fromT94lod, for five years-olds] to i4a Id for . fpurhtoothsi and wethfcr^ : from'; 7a .10d, for tooths. .._--••] The wife of Mr J. McDonald, M.H.E., had a narrow escape of poisoning. She was taking medicine' a»;a remedy for a sick headache} and.; When m the act of •wallowing ,<ner usual dose observed a peculiar anua/u? usnat taste and ejected ft from hep(>.nif6utb, not, hawever, before having swallowed a portion.' The bottle being examined it was foupd to contain » ■olution ol |trychnine f which . Mr MoDonald ppbeured; about two years ago for the purpose of poitonirig birds and mice. Nobodjr wag aware it waa m the house Happil/ Mrs McDonald recovered after medical attendance.