INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1569, 16 April 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

,At Auckland on Wednesday, Howard Osborne was fined. £2. and costs for a breach .of IheLotterieiAot at the Ellerslie races on Monday last. The accused was working on the principle of the totalisator, tipkets being 2s 6d, and deducting |2O per cent, for himself J I At tqe M Siipreme. Conr.t ,sittings, WeiliJigto^ f oni .Wednesday, a libel .action brought 'by Mrs Rceberry, proprietress 'of an,(pyater saloon, Lambton Quay, againsfciJ. D. -Harris, .proprietor' of the N.Z; Tirrieß, was heard. The action was 16 recover £IOO damages 'for ah alleged libel contained in a paragraph, wjitoh siid, -'li frightful steflc|i"' arose from/ plaintiffs premises, which, was an inconvenience to tbe'oconpaots of the Branch Hotel, the adjoining: praises, . J,udg* ule'Dt was entered for defendant with costs oh the lqwerjcale.

' The case of Sargood, Son and iLwen v. Corporation, Dunedin, n claim of £5500 damages through defective drainage, was commenced at,l)unedin on Wednesday, before Judge Williams, It is likely to occupy so*ae days. A strong bar is j engaged, with the Attorney-General j leading for the plaintiffs.; ']\ /' . ( i The, contents of .the. stomach. jof v |he. Rey. Kenaia Tenpataj f |one of the Who 'di«j'di frpmjppiponing by eating tjnned meat recently,' was sent,to Auckland from Mongonui for anafysm the district ahalysK , The relatives ~of '^the i othqr victims refused to permit the contents of the stomach to be takenjor analysis. " : On Thursday.after.no.on, at Wellipgton, Constable Walker;' arrested a:,,woman ojimed Elizabeth Trennery, ~wife/ . of,.aJ , dealer resid \\ne. /in_ i Courtenay Place, oft a charge of receiving a quantity of plate and woaring apparel, which was alleged tq have be»n;J ftojei} the -ppnvict Crabtree frbtn, the,.house of Mr John Koowles, Sydney street. Dr Hector says, after making an analysis, the Wellington water supply is remarkably free, from impurities. !The Plumptop £ark, pear Cbrlstchurch, comprising 198 acres, -with fences, grand stand and,other imprflypmejitsw*s offered fdr sale oh Thursday. Only ,a -bid ,bf £looo for the mortgagee.was offered, who t\\m secures , the,, .property.;,, Martin Taylor, the well-kribwn coursing trainer, secured the lease -of it for racing and cdnrsing.

AtDunedin on Thursday, Mr., Justice Williams dellv^re^^ng,an(JJ;jtnpprtant judgment in th'el'caae of Isaac,and others v; Mills and others, in which the plaintiffs were interested under the residuary devise of the will of the late, John Jqpefc. Tjie object of the suit was, His' Honor silid, originally to amend Mr Jooob' will, by including in a devise to Mrs Isaac land which had been devised to her sipterV grandchild, on the ground that the testator bad by mistak* devised it to the wrong person. Ai, however, the impossibility of obtaioinjj such relief- was obvious, the object of the suit now was to obtain a declaration that the land was w>t devised to the grandchild, and .0 amend the probate so that the lard might fall into the residue, in which case half of it would go to the Isaacs. The testator died in Marcb, and his will was proved in April 1 869.. Af fcercommentine; on the plaintiffs" letting the matter stand for 17 years, His Honor gave judgment for defendant, withcoata. , a