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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 122, 15 May 1876, Page 2

I NT E RP RO VINCIAL.

! .f Hokitika, Monday. The Albion, from Svdnev, U how (noon) in the roadstead, and is being tendered. Wellington. Monday. In the Supreme Court in banco in the case of Tyrrell u. Famson, Mr Barnicoat rpplie*! for a rule nisi on behalf of the defendant for a new trial upon the.ground that the evidence at the trial had been improperly admitted. The action -was one of ejectment by the plaintiff to recover from defendant possession of a piece of land in Neison. It was "lately tried before Judge Gilli'-s, when a verdict, was found for the plaintiff. The Court, without deciding positively as to the admissibility of the deed and declaration, refused the rule on the ground that at the trial other evidence was adduced to satisfy the jury that the plaintiff was entitled to the land claimed. ■-' A Scandinavian named Lirsen, at. the. Forty-'tnile Bush, who was apparently insane, armed himself with a pickaxe and billhook and ran amuck amongst the people about. He severely injured several women and. children, and threatened, to. kill his mate after having him tied up in the biish for two days; A. Mrs Sigversen hiving had a narrow escape from tbe maniac, her husband took his gun and meeting Laraen, the latter said he would kill Him,' when Sigversen' immediately, shot him dead. At the inquest a vet diet of Justifiable Homicide was returned.