INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 175, 26 July 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

i • Auckland, Wednesday. Judge Gillies to-day, in an appeal case, determined that the omission of the. words ! " with the advice and consent of the Executive Council" in the Superintendent's proclamation constituting" Highway Boards ; prevented them from recovering. He reversed j the judgment 'in favor of the Highway Board i for rates in the Court below. This decision j affects the majoritjrof the highway districts | throughout the province. ' The coursing meeting was a great success. • Two dogs ran off, and both were seriously injured. Thirty thousand shares in the Union Insurance Company 'have' be.n -applied for already.- --• A little girl named Helen Littern has been .burned to: death in the country through approaching, too near a bonfire pf rubbish. Her .clothes were burned completely off her lower limbs. ; The poisoning case at Rotorua occurred •under the following circumstances : — • On Tuesday week a fowl wa3 cooked for a sick Maori child; but the child being too ill to eat.it, the fowl was left in an iron pot until Sunday, when it wa3 eaten by a party of ten persons. During the night they all felt ill, but, thinking nothing of it, did not ask for European assistance until Monday morning, when a lad twelve yeara old-, who had partaken of the food, died. Another, a girl, died next night. The rest are ,np,w recovering, thanks to the exertions o| Captain G |t_air, who sent forDr Walker/with assistant surgeon Campbell. These gejjtfeaien having arrived from Taupo, the patients are now jander thei£.ca_e. -- . . ;i; . : „ i

I_ast Saturday, whilst George Brown, of M , N <jaborne^wa3..tuEniQg.o2 the iboiline. waterl -*.' fro^jhe PaidkillCT bath^hj. \&W gi the?- |i cauldron gave way, andj he slipped In fun W 1 his neck. He was alone, hat had sufficient-' ■ presence of mind to mjj&e hia way as Ifakfc ggi* 1 .pqasibMn^th-^ to^sla^ -?einfc sfcr&ped'. V of fii. clothing, the -g_eat^r'portiofed_ l_is "S skin came off. He ia now in a very critical state. m Christchuroh, Wednesday. Tbe inquest on the body of Thomas Powell ™ s Inspector Eeast gave the fpflo^s eHdenca:-«I went-i to" prisoners hpjise^and the woman Lynch' opened the door. I told them I had come to arrest them upon a charge of murder. JJehede said, <Oh!. my, .f2so&^l .-JmuL.afiaid ot this, and commenced telling me all about itr - I cajtioiied him. He said that deceased had . come to his houae, but ha put him out, and. locked the woman inside tha house. He :(pnsoner).theinwen. to* the^ Borough Hotel,- - had a drink, then went back, and found deceased^ ia thjJ house,._ .Ka.put.him.-Qot again; /giter^hich, decea-e^ifee W knocked at '^the doorYand waa\tffeig forget ip. : He -Sir™ sr^|- hen Picked* np a feo^iod went.to . . the door— he waa so worried that he did not know what he did; he knew he had run it .jntothe^nan, biflftdjd $.' think it tfas ao I '? ad ~' . Terall othfeir witnesses were 'called, „ bu| they merely the fcevious .' i evidence; respecting d«ceas>d. and the woman -Lynch drinking tofeettiefr' The jury, after s an absence of forty minutes, returned. a ■ verdict nf witfli- mt_Me-Bprn-t"Sa.rKeereHi.~ r£ y R^JPH 4-? char P<. • She haa-labored &mss®m esc*@eea6 _____&____& aM.£ ', Jthe arteat. _ . -o - -O4OX. raiGvZOßOTi^^bl&^i'Xil holQ^aapp^-ed-^er^otl^tf-i-ds-'^y VV - 1 a _i -°* O Kr-HFW^^bWto' ••- : Af tejr *wo. c dAyft--'enqni_y dnfiy* -ffii cnH-tti^- 2 " _gthe flrejrt ; the .Hot«l, . the.|My_ ■^etnmedkaii '•• ope»:>ve£<E_-.v-.* circumstances looked suspicious there wai no -fjreets?jidence~of inaendistisn.," The Baild-" 1 r -idgf for\X'so6/ih t_9\ l ____x\ * British and Nejv -fektahd, itid the J_h.sLj(»f . in tfae-formeihjffica-for £_od. "- - , . . Kchara, Thursday. _ ■& > claim, Larrikin's Terrace, where three men -were-workiug-on-tfae-face of a-drive at tha~ bottom of the shaft- vhen. a heavy fall of ■ j <*rtlgtook place:' pTnele&aped wi|h Y '_e w 1 bruises, butf the other two, KenhsdV and" Mulronay, were covered with earth. Mul-J-iejebrinjured and is.nofc£spected to recover. Kennedy sustained a fracture "' ' .of theleg and.other injuries. -'I