PROVINCIAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 307, 26 November 1873, Page 3

PROVINCIAL.

The proper way to gauge galvnised; iron will be decided with a cose pending at the Resident Magistrate' a Court. A quantity of the metal was forwarded to Groymouth from Dunedin, but did not appear to give the recipient satisfaction. Some fault was found with the gauge and quality of the iron, and the consequence is an action at law. Eight practical men at Greymouth declare that several cwt.. measure thelßin. gauge, and other experienced parties in Dunedin aver that the iron forwarded measures from 20in to 2 tin. It wns yesterday declared in Court tte most accurate means of gauging is to cut a corner off the galvnised irou and one of the litigants produced a sample whi h measured on one side 16 in., and on the other 20hi. gauge. The case of Robert Moore, who wa? found guilty at the July criminal sittings of giving a false answer to the Returning officer at the election of a member for the Anderson's Bay district, has been brought before the Court of Appeal, upon a point raised by Mr W. D. Stewart, who defended the prisoner, to the effect that there was no such: offence as personation and giving false- answers at the election of Provincial Councillors. The Court 'has adopted the contention of counsel, and the conviction has been quashed. An Amendment Act will require to be introduced to ro- > mid,/ the defect At a meeting* of the Dunedin Band of Hope lately, a prize was grren for the best Temperance song, and another for the beat Temperance recitation. The Rev. Dr. "Begg preached in the Presbyterian church, Port Chalmers, on Monday evening. The building was crowded in every part. The rev. gentleman conducted the service in the ordinary form, and took for his text Hebrews xm., 13, dwellings as an introduction, upon the position of these for whom the Apostle specially wrote the epistle ; how they were cast off" by their- friends, and had to | bear the reproach of fchear- Master. In the Dunedin- Rv. M.*s Court lately, — Ik - bella Lyle, an " unfortunate," was charged by Maria Sterick, another woman of the same class, with, hairing- violently assaulted her, by throwing.-* vase and a tumbler- at hep. — There was a eras-summons by Lyleagainst Sterick. — A number of witnesses were- examined on both sides, all belonging to- the same sphere of life. — The first case tow dismissed ; m the second the defendant was fined 10s. and costs, or in default ordered to. suffer- three days? imprisonment. There were five- parsons taken off the Quarantine Island on the 18th instant sad sent to Dunodinv Other matters on the- Island are progressing favourably.. W© learn from the- "Tfinaru Herald," recently, the body of a man was found in the creek on the southern side of the Commercial Hotel. The body, which was conveyed to the police-station,, hna bean identified as that of a mad named Thompson, a Swede, who a little- time ago followed the occupation of a drayman at Rengiora, and it w also stated that he. was toe man who- executed Swale at Lyttleton. At a public meeting, Mr Macandreir said lately,— l am perfectlyneertain with regard to Hugh Millejc, that had he come here he would have produced a book which would have sent more people, to tbecountry than all jbh^iinmigratioaageatapat together*