HAND SHAKING EXTRAORDINARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2710, 8 October 1887, Page 3

HAND SHAKING EXTRAORDINARY.

iftuNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . Wellington, October 8.. A rather unususl.case" occurred in ' . the civil tat at the R.M.: Court tliis . morning, when Mrs Campbell,;, bar- < maid atr.the Foresters' Hotel, sued Chief Officer Lindsay, of the s.'s. ionic, for 150, for breaking her arm, medical' . . expenses, fo. It appeared there ha^ ' been a gathering at the .'notel,'with" some, dancing, and.'-; the', accident occurred when the party we're, leaving.I&intjfF averred that twisted by arm while shaking hands, causing . her to fall and break'her arm, but ' : defendant alleged she had swung round of her own accord, and suddenly let go and fallen in consequence/ The Magistrate gave judgment for £5 and costs. fti MIDLAND RAILWAY. Suited Press Association;), -.■ . Wellington, October 8. With reference to the proposed alterations in tin; Midland Railway contract, it is stated that tho Company wish tbciu, in order to inspire . lonfidcnco on the Stock'; Exchange. Their owu representatives,-'arb quite , satisfied with the valuable, nature of the concessions, Mr Brodie'.' floaro having stated that the "'forest block around Lake Brunner, would in itself Stho whole cost of" the- line, : Half is block the company get in altersections, and the timber royally »!one is estimated to be worilf-£lO an '; acre. For the other lurid tho com- ', pany have already been offered £1 per / ; acre. '». ' l SIR ROBERT STOUT. *, (United Press Association.) w< : 'J Wellington, October 8. Sir Robert Stout states that he is not going to Melbourne as announced by some journals. THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. (United Press Association.) Wellington, October 8. It is believed the discrepancy in tho time of meeting of the House on Tuesday neod not cause any difficulty as the Commissioners will simply anjMunco that Hi 3 Excellency's speech' $H been postponed. A SAD DEATH. .. (United Press Association) New Plymouth, October 8. Mrs Leech was found drowned at Inglewood yesterday. ; v .Slio.,.liad beon ill for some time and wandering in tr mind, and on being missed from F bed a searce wae made, and she .8 found drowned in a pool of water, Constabio Kocho whohas ticmi Btatioucd ia Wellington for somo mor.ths' is to bo rewovsd to Ekotahuna. The quarterly sitting of the District Court will bu bold at Maatorbou on Wednesday noxt, the 12tb ibst., the only business on the list being applications in bankruptcy. ' The mechanical shooting-.gallery adjoininiz tho Occidental Hotel Quoen-street . which has bocomo .a favonto resort for of Masterton will bo opened t>. i' evening till eloven o'clock. The following are among the cases down for hearing at the civil sittings of the Supremo Court in Wellington which opens on Monday next ;—Fulton v McCardlo and another, claim £550, Mr Chapman for plaintiff and Mr Hutcheiiß for defendants; and H. S. Wardell v ■Dr Hosking, claim for partition of land, tib Hell fur plaint-iffaiid Mr A, R, Bunny fur defendant. Information was received by. the Commissioner of Police from Sydnoy yeaterday afternoon to tho effect that John O'Brion, the ox-schoolrnaatoi- at Kaitoke, who absconded to Sydney after having been admitted to bail on a charge of wifo desertion, had been arrested there on arrival of the Btearner Wakatipu, by which he sailed. The adjournod inquest en the body of the dead child, found on 26th ultimo, near tho Thistle. Hotol, Auckland, was held yesterday, when a vordict was returned that the tho child died from hemorrngo or (rom suffocation at tho time « birth, but whether the neglect was used through tho- ignorauco or incapa> ,y of the mother, or malice with wilful felonious intent, there was no evidence to show. Mr Ayeon, .curator at Ihe Masterton Breeding Ponds, .proceeded to; Wellington this week-with, .fifty ! four Rhine Salmon and, Unity oiio Lake.Geneva Trout for the Otago 'ponds,' to which place they were forwarded bytho sja, Rotorua, He alßo took down about four iijjundred brown- trout for distribution in ; Jftho Ma'nawatii district. The Salmon and '' Geneva Trout wore hatched from the oya brought from.England by the It.M.S. Tongariro abyut three months ago, Thore are atpresunf in tho Maaleitou pouds about one hundred Lake Ucnova" Trout kept for brooding purposos, and between two and three huudred Rhine Salmon, some of which will probably be turned out in tho Wiurarapa rivors. In Sussex, tho approved cure for a swollen neck is to draw a snako nine tiinoa across the throat of the. sufferer, j v).'.-.sftor which tho snake ia killed and its ffciin sewed in a' piece of silk, and worn "\-JBound the patient's neck.- Sometimes the snake is put ib a buttle, which is; .tightly - corkod and b'urhd in tho : grpund,. aiid it is expected tht as the victim decays' the nrelUnj; wilhubside. /,' ""