BURNED TO DEATH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2737, 29 October 1887, Page 3

BURNED TO DEATH.

£ Secead B&ita.

(United Press Association.) ~.,';. Gisborne, October 28. A Maori;-woman' named' Roltb KaT<j IMo, t *;iiew,Awimu, on Tuesday' night, durv- ing the absonco.of her husband at the ;,'!'.'"ta,ngi over-Hone Mokena.'Th'e woman '.'''.....'usually.kept a light-burning, consistjiig of a Janip, manufactured out of the shell of a vegetable, which in sup- "/ posed to have caught the bedclothes,' '•' and she was suffocated with the smoke, ,l ; asihere did not appear any attempt to ! qsoape." The Maories living near, saw '';;' 'the whare blaze, but too late to save '■;■.. ! tho woman. ';'..- SUPREME COURT. m% [United Press Association.] New Plymouth, October 28. At the Supremo Court, Wikaata was acquitted on the charge of sheepstealing ; John Wilson pleaded guilty oil four charges of embezzlement the Waitara Harbor Board funds was sentenced to three years'- imprisonment; William Drnvy coiwic.ted of breakmg'and entering, was sen- ■•' tended to two months' imprisonment. -.- There is only one criminal case > '■ remaining to be disposed of. ~ ,Mr W. McKeever's annual petition for .a grunt for military service was presented '' .by Mr Fisher last night. Mr McKeever prays that "if y»ur honorable House heliove the statement of your petitioner, he respectfully pray 3 for prompt redress. ' H not, he claims a trial in the common ;.Courtß of the Colony." ' Those who enjoy a really good smoke .are recommended to Williams' Tobacco S Emporium, Queen-street, where the 'largest and best selected stock of smokers - ■ mixtures is kept in Masterton. Mr Williams announces that ho has twenty '-thousand cigarettes in s.tock, with about -■fifty -brands of tobacco to select from, and that he keeps no mouldy or decayed commodities onhand, but has real fragrant weeds direct from the manufacturers t avery week. IpThe House of Representatives met last evening at 7.30, when several ■ petitions were presented. The Premier laid on the table certain papers relating to the Midland Railway. Sir Julius Vogel made a long explanation with referenco to the contract entered into by the late Government. He thanked the Premier for his courtesy in sending him a copy of the papers : to bo laid on the table, andthought tho course the Government had taken to be a satisfactory rino. The Premier intimated that he would make a motion on the subject on Tuesday, next, •and explain the views of the Government on;the matter. , He also said ho .would deliver the Finanoial Statement on Tuc3> day next.. A Bill to amend th.e Representation Act, 1887, was introduced and read a first tlmo.