LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1356, 15 September 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORKKBVONDSNT). WELLINGTON, A good deal of discuuion ia going on hnra respecting the diaputed try in the Wellington and A uckland football match. It appears from Auckland telegrams that the Auckland captain asserts that Mr Wright, the referee, was seventy yards away when an alleged throw in occurred. Mr Wright however says he was about fifteen yards away, and shows conclusively that to have been seventy yards away in any direction he must have been thirty yards outside the field altogether. The local papers claim that Wellington won the match, the seore standing Wellington 6 points to Auckland's 4 points. In the Supreme Court yesterday the case of H. K. Russell v. J. Sheehan (as executor of the will of the late chief Karitiana) was commenced. The action ia brought to recover on an amended statement of a claim, The hearing is expected to last some time, 11 DUNEDIN. The retail price of mutton has advanced to five pence per pound. A lad named M'Rae was drowned in the river at Kelso last night. His eider brother who jumped after him, was rescued with difficulty. Mr Watt, R.M., decided yesterday that all decisions convicting and discharging drunkards were Illegal. The minimum penalty on conviction is five shillings. At the October sittings of tbe Supreme Court Margaret Laverty seeks judicial separation from Charles Laverty. It is alleged that on the night of their marriage io August, 1881, the husband threatened to desert her, and grossly abused her. He offered her £lOO if she would desert him. Three days afterwards he threatened to shoot her, and presented a loaded gun at her, which his brother discharged. Fearing that blood would bo spilt owing to further threats, she fled from his house, and has since been living apart. AUCKLAND. Over £l,OOO will bo given in prizes at the next Auckland regatta. The saw mill at Mercury Bay is lighted with the electric light. The Brush light ie used, and the mill ia run night and day. Messrs Redmond and Walsh have received telegrams from various parts of the Colony, welcoming them on their mission. billiard saloon at Hamilton was burned down on Wednesday night. The Waikato “ Times ” and Union Bank buildings were saved with great difficulty. HA WERA. The case of alleged child murder was again gone on with yesterday, but no further evidence of importance was forthcoming. The Bench were of opinion that there was strong circumstantial evidence, but not sufficient to commit upon, and the charge was dismissed. A narrow escape from a fatal accident occurred yesterday. Mr Alfred Atkinson (a son of the member for Egmont) was in charge of a party in the bush, when a dead limb fell from a tree, knocking off Mr Atkinson's hat, stunning and bruising a man named Downey, and breaking the thigh of a man named Thomas Harrison. Owing to the accident the party did not reach here till past midnight.