PER PRESS AGENCY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1933, 15 March 1875, Page 2

PER PRESS AGENCY.

Auckland, This day. At tlio Police Court to-day Henry Pettifc was committed for trial for assaulting the wife of Mr Cornford, solicitor, Napier, in December last. The evidence showed that he followed Mrs Cornford into an outhouse, closed the door, and seized her; threw her on the] floor, and threatened to till her with a knife unless she gave him £I*. After some parley he let her out to get the money, when she escaped and fell fainting. He disappeared over the fence. He pleaded guilty. The Pretty Jane has arrived from Poverty Bay, having been successfully i raised. She presents a dilapidated ap ■ pearance. | Wellington, This day. Arrived: —Wellington, from the South, with the Suez mail. She goes North at noon to-morrow. A severe shock of earthquake is said to have been felt here on Saturday at 5.30 o'clock. Poet Chalhees, This day. The Bobycito, from Newcastle brings intelligence of the continuance of severe floods. At Morpeth there was much distress. The Hon. Mr Arnold,, whose death has been already reported, was with his manservant named McFadyean in a boat on the river near his residence, when they were upset. Mr Arnold's body has not yet been recovered. McFadyean was rescued from a willow tree, in a branch of which he had found safety, but in which he had been for nine hours before being rescued. Later news states that the river has fallen to thirty three feet six inches and is still falling.