DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Rrese Association.) NATIVE THREATENS HIS WIEE. Daunovirke, February <3. native known as Sana David, residJ.P. this morning charged with threa ening to discharge a loaded firearm at his wife" with intent to maim or disfigure her. The occurrence took placed. Tahoraitc on Saturday. At 6 p.in. accused quarrelled with his wife, and threatened to shoot her, am she ran to a neighbour’s! Accused followed with 'a. .gun at trail some distance away. On reaching the house where, his wife was, the owner thereof came, out, and tried to take the gun off - accused, but he only, succeeded- in extracting the. cartridges.; ■ The accused then went back with the gun to the whare.,. where, subsequently, he was arrested. His wife declined to give evidence against him, but his eleven-year-old daughter told the above story. Accused pleaded nob guilty and was committed for trial at Palmerston North. Bail was allowed, accused in the sum of £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO each.. A DIVORCE CASE: Auckland, February 3. At the Supreme Court, Robert Coe applied for a divorce from Mary Jane Coe, alleging misconduct with Peter Riley. His wife came to the dominion! a® an assisted immigrant, and the alleged impropriety took place on the voyage and at Wfellington. A deciee nisi was granted, with damages amounting to £250 against the co-respon-dent, Riley, the petitioner getting the custody of the undefended. .

CONSTABLE SERIOUSLY AS- /' SAULTED. Palmerston North, February 3. Constable Doyle, of Shannon, who was badly knocked about on Saturday night, is now in the hospital. It is stated that he tried to put a man out or the stables of the Albion Hotel, when the man turned on him and fiercely assaulted him. The constable had his leg fractured and one eye badly injured. His assailant bolted and has not yet been arrested. ■ " SCHOONER IN TROUBLE. ' : Christchurch, February'S; Shortly after 1 p.ra, on Saturday a message was received from tne signalman at Addexdey Hoad, Lyttelton, to the feffect that' the Kaiapoi Shipping Company’s Kairaki, bound from Najifer t 6 Kaiapoi with sheep, nad a srtrlall schooner in tow. Two hours afteV the'' Kairaki arrived in the stream, and it was ascertained that the vessel in tow was the auxiliary schooner Fairburn, a well-known trader'between Auckland, 'Napier, .and Timaru. ’ She will probably resume Voyage about the end of next week. The Fairburn,,is an auxiliary schooner of 80 tons. She has two engines of 30 h,p>. each,, driving a separate scrpu;.. The owners are Messrs Carahy and Co., Napier. , WELLINGTON SESSIONS. Wellington, February 3. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened before His Honor Justice Chapman. In his charge to the Grand Jurf, the Judge said the list of eases was not large, and none presented any complications. A oraparison with a few years hack showed a diminution'in the number of cases, which was partly due to the operation of the law respecting habitual criminals and reformative treatment which had* convinced a number of persons that a criminal career was not a business. He did not think we received so many criminals from the other side as formerly. JANUARY SPECIE EXPORT. Wellington, February 3. During the last month New Zealand exported 30,942 ounces of gold of the value of £121,903, which was, 4933 ounces , (value of £19,104) Jess than in January of last year. of s ilver last month was 133.385 <"">• tL-vaho £13,671, being 123,921 minces (valued at £12,728) above the figures for January, 1912.