ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.
In the Dunedin Supreme Court on Wednesday, the libel case, John Inglia Wright v. Geo r ge Balaide, was heard. The libel consisted in a letter written by defendant, a schoolmaster, to Mies Stewart, a teacher, cautioning her against marrying the plaintiff, as he was of a delicate constitution and came from a delicate family, his father being blind. The letter was written annoymonaly. The defence was that the parents of the girl were opposed to the marriage, and that the defendant wrote the letter in good faith at the mother’s request. The jury gave a verdict for £SO damages and costs.
It is understood an! action has been commenced in the Auckland Supreme Court to recover from John Adams, the proprietor of the Swan Hotel, the money said (o have been entrusted to him by Franks while the latter was under the influence of liquor. The transaction in question was the subject of a ‘ lambingdown’ prosecution dismissed by the Magistrate the other day. Franks who belongs to Wanganui, is a nephew of Major-General Franks, and the £250 deposit receipt was a legacy given to him by his uncle. Henry Deroy, a bugler to the Salvation Army in Auckland, has been arrested on n charge of feloniously forging, with intent to defraud, a bill of exchange for £2O.
At an inquest on the body of John Webber, found dead iu his house at Wellington on Tuesday, the following verdict was returned: —‘That the deceased. John Webber, died from the effects of poison, administered by himself whilst under the influence of temporary
insanity.’ At an inquest on the bod} 7 of Ellen Curtis, Auckland, who was discovered on a vacant allotment in an exhausted condition, and who afterwards died in the Hospital, a verdict was returned of death from natural causes, accelerated by drink and exposure. A rider was appended ceosuring the inhumanity of her mother, who refused to give her shelter, and her par,amor, Arthur Kirk, who had left her without getting aid for her.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1194, 21 June 1884, Page 3
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338ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 1194, 21 June 1884, Page 3
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