THAMES NOTES. THE MOUNT PLEASANT TRAGEDY. Thames, September 8.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 298, 12 September 1888, Page 3

THAMES NOTES. THE MOUNT PLEASANT TRAGEDY. Thames, September 8.

Tjik man William Davis is progressing satisfactorily at the Hospital, bub it is unlikely that lie will be sufficiently recovered to proceed with the case of attempted murder against his wife, Mary Davis, on Monday next, so that a further remand, for a week will most likely be applied for and granted, ab the expiration of which time he should be able to be present in Court. Davis has made a statement to the effect that he was murderoufcly assaulted by his wife while lying asleep on the mattress on the floor, though he haa simply an indistinct recollection of receiving two blow?, and next finding himfaelf in the Hospital. He denies that she struck the blows in self-defence.

THE FISHING YACHT I 3 AT. Thcie is every reason to believe that the fishing boat seen on the Ist instant at Cabbage Bay is- the missing yacht from Auckland.

WARDEN'S COURT. Tin-, only licensed holdings of Auckland interest granted at the Wai den's Court yesterday wei e — J. M. McLaren, Victoria, and G. P. Quayle, the Quail, both afc Marototo, aud T. H. Ciawford, Kimberley, Waiotahi Cicck.

THAMES MINERS AT BROKEN HILL Information has been leceived that John Tiegonning and another Thames miner have died fit Broken Hill from typhoid fever. Messrs Oats and Rickards have returned from that place, and several other miners are likely to return from the Barrier mines within the next few weeks.

PRISONERS. John Gibson, alias Knox, has been sentenced to another six months' imprisonment for larceny of a gold scarf pin from the steward of the Rotomahana, making twelve months in all. He and the prisoner Thomas Moore were sent to Auckland last evening by the s.s. Rotomahana.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING. The matter of lighting the streets of the Thames by electricity was again considered at a meeting of the Borough Council last night, when it was decided to .send a letter to Mr Prince pointing out that by the Act under which the Council was constituted it was prevented from purchasing the plant offeied, but to ask him whether in the e\ent of the Boiough Council and Haibour Board uniting to use the electric light in place of gas, he would enter into a contract with the two local bodies for supplying the electric light for three yeai\s at a fixed price.