INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 88, 31 March 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

\ ',■"'"'- V" " Ddnedin, Thursday. In ttfe casa.of : Webb, trustee, v, National Bank, Judge "Williams granted a rule for arrest of 'judgment and alternative rule for 3 new trm,!,. At the trial, Webb recovered the sum of jE3,000 damages. ."*.."..;'.'. .";' ,' " -.Friday. The following' is the state of the grain market :rfWti'e i *t,.prime milling 4s 6A ; middling, 4s 3d to 4* 4(1. There is' but a small export denianJ, ,and millers are not buying heavily at 5 current rates. For oats, the demand for export; excee.ls Ihe pr.eseat cupply: good new feedj is 9d to is iod j milling, is ll'i. barie^' nominal quot-tionH, prime, 4b 9 1 t<>"s;s Odin tv 4i H-i to 4h 5d .•>h»re''ina^k« : ':— Biyeis, Ha <k ol Mew Zen land, n j», £11 ; . « w Z alami Innurance Co.. 53s ; Naf'iqV'i lu»u'muce . o, 245; Sttndard {IL»6J. ',"tflßfteTS,"Xfa'ii.>nal'Banlc, 7.>e ; Stan^liar4, l 2» v 6dV New Ztwland shipping (jompany, iSOs; aatea of Colonial Bank, 33s 4d to 33s 10d; Standard, HI6J. . » • ■ ; . „ ; i; Napier. Thursday. Tihe Glaveriiwr arrived at lour o'ciocn, and w&b weltoined'' 6y the Ma«'or", Cop)ratioui Fore<ier». H berniaa Socet es, and a large^ number of the KgpA&fil :puj>ffe. /I. he (Corpora tion and W.-'r«rj|jgrn presen ed an addrass, to whkh thu Goveru-'r replied. He waa heartily

receiveJ, and will hold a levee to-morrow and att nd a ball in'the evening Re stay <at the (Marion Hotel, and the visit is expected to be only for tan days, j m , • Auckland, Thursday. The Governor will, examine Whits lelarid and the ground at Tauranga atter leavinar Nipier. His say in Auckland will last till shortly before the meeting of Purliament Four young men were to-day charged with assaulting Mr. and Mrs. Price, in Newton, on Saturday night. Constable Gamble deposed that towards midnight he saw a crowd in Newton, in which wefe the prisoners and tbe Prices. Most of them, including complainants, were under the influence of liquor. He "told them to go home, as they were creating a disturbance by dancing and banjo playing Next morning Price came and laid the charge. Mrs Price's evidence set out that Bhe and her husband h«d been shopping, and only met, but were not with prisoners J. Mllmoyle and D.. M'llmoyle, who first assaulted her husband and then robbed him of money and parcels. When she attempted to scream she was gagge 1, and struck violently on the bead. She waß then grossly insulted by one, and dragged across the road to a green patch, near where David committed a criminal assault. [The evidence here is unfit for publication] Bhe struggled with all Her might, and tore prisoner's . face, when he kicked her in the mouth cutting her lip, and filling her mouth with blood, and also threatened to choke her if slip screamed. After further ill-treatment Bhe becinie insensible, Donaldson and Lodge, the other two prisoners, detained her husband while the others w(ra assaulting her. .When she came to, she was lying in the middle of the road. She is. "still suffering from hsr injuries. In concluding her evidence, Mrs Price snid tho men who attacked her were quite strangers, and she never spoke to them previously. She was quite sober. Bhe got from the road and managed to get to a cottage, but was too exhausted to tell her story. Mr Joy, counsel for the defenoe, cross-examined her. She said the constable made a mistake in saying she was under ths influence of liquor. She said she had only taken a glass of ale, and half a one of brandy that evening. When Bhe came to it was daybreak, and her Innband reported the mitter to the police Alexinder Young, me iioal practitioner, deposed to the nature of the injuries inflicted upon complainant; her Up avis cut, one of her front teeth knocked out, a wound on her nose, several bruises on the leg} and other parts of her body, and had evidently been roughly treated. Benjamin O'Hara corroborated the statement ot the constable, that he saw Mrs Price dancing amongst the crowd, apparently the worse for liquor. Mr Price gave his evidence as to the assault, when he tried to go to her assistance, b xt D. M'llraoyle knocked him down and hammered him till he was insensible He denied that he or his wife were drunk. The prisoners were all committed for trial. The case created great excitement.