LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1335, 28 July 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. The case Mitchell v. Common, Shelton and Co., has been settled by the plaintiff paying the defendants £5O, and withdrawing his action. AUCKLAND. A little girl named Heath, at Arch Hill, was attacked by a bull-dog, which caught her by the body, and held her so tenaciously that three men, with tomahawks, could not make the brute relinquish his hold. Tho dog was ultimately despatched with four bullets. The girl is not expected to recover. Garrard, the labor agitator, has served a fresh writ on Cotter, in regard to alleged false imprisonment. Cotter has sent him a bill of costs for £4l, in connection with the recent action, which was dismissed, ISAPIER, Friday. The recent heavy rains and easterly winds by blocking up the mouths of the rivers, have caused the low-lying portions of Clive and Meaneo to be flooded, the water at the latter place being higher than for years past. Much of the river embankment and a quan’- X tity of fencing has been washed away, but otherwise it is not known that much damage has been done. The floods are now rapidly subsiding. The Napier Football Team leave in the Omapere on Tuesday. WELLINGTON. Tte Football match, Canterbury v. Wellington, has been postponed till Saturday, owing to the unfavorable atato of the weather. The licensed victuallers have formed themselves into the Wellington Licensed Victuallers’ Trade Association. 5 CHRISTCHURCH. The shareholders in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company have carried a resolution protesting against the Directors purchasing another boring plant until after the opinion of the shareholders has been taken at the next half-yearly meeting, Advices have been received that Messrs Shaw Saville and the Albion Shipping Co,, intend to run a direct line of Steamers to New Zealand, tho first boat to leave about September, They will also increase to eight the number of sailing vessels fitted out lor the frozen meat trade, The Dunedin Gaol enquiry was resumed here to-day. The evidence of prisoners Chalmers and Hawkins was taken, and was generally favorable to the management, Several other prisoners denied that anything improper had taken place in the gaol. Capt, Hume will be examined on Monday,