A SERIOUS CHARGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2739, 1 November 1887, Page 3

A SERIOUS CHARGE.

:.. (Press Association.) • Wanqanui, .October 31. A man named Joseph William .Jones, at Arauioha, : Wivs. •' on a charts of criminally assault* . irig a girl-teii years of-age,' The prisoner is a married mah withu family. ' LITTLE, RIVER MURDER, (United Press Association,) Ciiristchurou, October 81, A special Police Court was held today before (J. Whitofoord, R.M., and H. Westenra J, P, t to, hear the charge of murder at Little Favor against Nils ; Jacobson. Nothing iresh transpired in the evidence, and the accused was f formally committed for trial. FOUND DEAD, (Uuitcd Press Association.) Hokitika, October 31. A tnnn named Edward Bassett was V'|igund doad in his garden yesterday, having broken ft Mood vessel He has been in delicate health lor some time. THE WAITOTARA SEAT. • (united press association. ) 2 ; ; ■';■■■ Wanqanui, October 31 Bryce's election petition charges ;.*' v Hutchison, by himself or agents, with r giving and promising to procure oliices with, by himself or agents, making gifts, loans, olfers, and agreements to voters; with paying money to persons with intent that it should bo spent in bribery; with giving uiul providing ftneat, drink, and entertainment for voters on clectiou day; with "treating;"' with employing persons for payment against the provisions of the Act; with payi.ng railway fares, hiring convey- • ances, &c; with inducing ptrsons to vote who were disqualified. Thu petition ig signed by John Bryco, David «t, and J. R, Somnierville, HE RANK OP iS'EW SOUTH WALES. (UNITEI) PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Duneuin, October 31. A telegram has been received' inti- - mating that the Bank of New South • .Wales has 1 declared 15 per cent . .dividend, and a bouus of per dent, placing £ 12,000 to the reserve fund, .. which now stands at £900.000, J SHOCKING DEATHS BT FIRE. (Press Association). ... Dckedlv, November 1, , Edward andJano Suttou,' husband 'find ; wife, Ohristoper Elliott, aud Edward Ure, have been buraod* to in a hut belonging to Sutton. ... ;Lateßt news from Samoa reports affairs at Apia to bo-in a very unsettled state, ■ owing to tho German Consul at that place having refused to recognise the legality of • ; ,thq constitution of the Municipality. • {n the Carterton R.M. Court this mornbefore S. von Stiir'meiy R. M. and B, J. P„ tho only case heard wan T. ' 'tyatson v James Driscoll, .claim tor £lO . s»,ld, which was adjourned from last ■ Bitting. Plaintiff was nonsuited with costs. " ; ,Mr Presswood announces elsewhere (jjat owing to the expected arrival of new .goods for the Christmas season, he is .ielling off the whole of lii'b present stock jewellery, watches, clocks, &c., at cost price, His goods aro all marked in plain ..figures, and are well worthy a visit of inspection. "Tho Financial News asserts that the Bank of New Zealand is the centre and ..maintenance of a class dangerous to "finance, and the tool of Ministers like Bir Julius Vogel, in wild extravaganco ... and reckless expenditure which will over■Mielm the colony with debt. The Stu • tost says it is desirable that tho London 'shareholders should be informed how much has.been lust, when and how. The Economist sayß the directors are right in not declaring a dividend, which has not been earned. man, named Chark'S Taylor 'UfMii, who resided with his parents in Tinakdra Road, Wellington, committed suicide last evening by shouting himself with a carbine. From the n iture of moral letters written by tho deceased recently, there is no doubt the rash act was committed in a fit of insanity, ' Ho placed the carbine to his mouth, and prossed the trigger with his foot,- death being instantaneous, His Excellency tho Governor returned .fromßrancepethatnomi to-day, to tho residence of Mr W. H. Beet bam, and .proceeded to \V. llingtmi by this a'tor- • noonV train. His Excellency regrets that lie is unablo to accent the invitation Hjobe present at the Wairarapa AsEooiajiirae .Show at Carterton to-morrow, for "jtftlhoush his health has. improved since iil arrival at Brancepeth, ha does not J^intbe• lyill be able to undergo tljs consequent upon a visit-to tho