LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1349, 30 August 1883, Page 3

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). NAPIER, Wednesday. The following is the team selected to play against Gisborne in the forthcoming football contest Begg (captain,) Anderson, Cotterill, Gibbons, Harrop, Kennedy, Milton, McVay, Robinson, Simpson, St Hill, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Thompson, aud Wake. Emergencies—LeQuesne, Parker, Williams, and Cooper, CHRISTCHURCH. Leos has been scratched for the New Zealand and Canterbury Cups. WELLINGTON Lottie Wilmott has instructed her solicitor to issue a writ in the Supreme Court against a well-known Wellington citizen for alleged defamation of character. Damages are fixed at £2OOO. Captain Edwin has received advices from Mongonui and Russell, stating that a heavy tidal wave had been ezpe< fenced at both places, GREYMOUTH. Mrs Peebles has been committed for trial at the Supreme Court for endoavering to hang herself yesterday in the lock up, by means of a handkerchief tied to a bar of the cell ventilator. She alleges unpleasantness with friends as the catee, AUCKLAND An official inquiry was held yesterday into the loss of the Alina, before the Collector of Customs and Captain Fraser, Nautical Assessors, The enquiry was co oh d <i, but from the nature of the evidence given it has been determined to Lave an official enquiry before a Nautical Court if possible. The case of Robert Cooper v. Coleman, Clark, Rees, and Wi Pere, which has been pending some time, is likely to come before the Supreme Court soon. The property in dispute is stated to be worth £lOO.OOO, and the mortgage under which the disputed sale took place being for over £25,000. The issues were settled yesterday before Judge Gillies, and the trial is fixed for the next sittings in October. NEW PLYMOUTH. About 200 Natives en route for Parihaka passed through town this morning. Thirty of the Natives who offered violence to Mr Hursthouse are among them. They intend to be present a> a tangi at Oakuni, and then proceed to Parihaka. The Natives say they will go to Parihaka, and nothing shall atop them.