TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1853, 14 February 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At Whangarei Pslice Court, Amy Beat, Richard Ellis, Eliza Jane Ellis, and Ellen Ward were charged with the attempted concealment of birth of the illegitimate child of Amy Deat. On account of the weak condition of the latter, the case was adjourned for a week. The offence is alleged to have been' committed on the 27th January. It is stated J that the child was still-born and was buried in the garden* 1 A Native trouble has arisen at Kaipara out of the survey beinff made by Mr Oheale, surveyor, by order of the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, who is to adjudicate on a block at Dargaville in a few days. Some native owners are opposed to the proceedings, and Mr Cheale haa been forcibly obstructed by having his pegs: pulled up, and his chain and theodolite removed. Several trivial skirmishes ensued. It is expected that Mr Mitchelson will arrange matters amicably. _ j A married woman named Mary Gallick died suddenly at Oamaru on Sunday evening. At an inqueet held on Monday afternoon It was shown that the woman had been drinking heavily, and was seized with excessive vomiting on Saturday, and died suddenly on Sunday night. The medical evidence was to the effect that death was the result of alcoholism. At the Dunedin Police Court on Monday two boys named Madson and a boy named Green were charged with robbing another boy in the street of money he was taking to pay rent. One of the Madsons was under Beven years of age and the charge I was withdrawn. The other two boys were ten yearß of age, and they were sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with six strokes of the birch. The father of the boys Madson said that when they were recently fined he had saved up £1 to pay it and the boys stole it from him. Nothing has been heard of the young man Robert Home, who mysteriously disappeared from his father's place at Purakanui, Otago, nearly a fortnight ago. A reward of £5 ia now offered for information as to his whereabouts. Hugh and Firilay McLeod, sentenced in the Inveroargill Bankruptcy Court to three months* hard labour for neglecting to keep proper and sufficient books were liberated on Monday, the appeal against the sentence on the ground that His Honor Judge Broad left the Bench before signing the order of commitment being upheld. Mrs Bowlos, who whh severely burnt at Invercargillon Monday morning by her clothes catching fire, died the same night. She was the wife of the son of Mr stationmaeter at Rangiora.