CRIMINAL ASSAULT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2762, 30 November 1887, Page 2

CRIMINAL ASSAULT.

Wellington, November 30, Clias. Watson lias been arrested on a charge of committing a criminal assault on a girl under 12 years of age. He was remanded till Saturday. SERIOUS CHARGE. Oam aru, Nov. 29. Arthur John Penton,a young man,aged about 19, was brought before tlio Resident Magistrate this morning, charged with committing lape on a little girl aged nine years. Accused was remanded until tomorrow on the application of the police. His solicitor has asked that the accused shou'd be examined as to his sanity. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. Hokitika, November 29. A woman named Mrs Russell, walking from Okarito to Ross, a distance of about sixty miles, was lost on the road. 1 The mailman, who left since, has arrived, and says he saw no trace of her. It is feared she lost her way in the bush,' or else was carried down ono of tlio rivers and drowned. There is very little hope of finding her alive. Search parties are now out. WELLINGTON RAUES. Hutt Raceoouksb, November 30. The weather is fine for the Wellington Racing Club's Spring meeting. The course is in good order, and the attendance fair. Flying Stakes :—Tongariro, 1; Little Scrub, 2; Giriri, 3. Hurdle Handicap : Kangaroo, 1; Rata, 2. Reputation also ran, THE THREE CARD TRICK, Wellington, .November 80.-,

At the B.M, Court to-day, the charge against Patrick Ferguson, for playing the three card trick on board the l'e Anau, was dismissed, the Magistrate holding that he could not convict either under the Gaming and Lotteries Act, or the Police Offences Act. Under the former Act it had not been shown that the ship was a public place, and under the Police Offences Act, cards are not instruments of gaming, although they are under the Gaming and Lotteries Act, EDUCATION BOARD. Wellington, November 30. At the Wellington Education Board mooting to-day an application fora bonus to Mra Jones of Carterton was not granted, a similar request from Mr Singer Kaiwaiwai being also refused. In reference to the notion of the Committte of the latter school in deciding to Jock up the school, and refusing to allow Mr Singer to have oharge of it, the Board instructed tho Secretary to write tc tho Committee informing them that Mr Singer was empowered by the Board to carry on the boliodl, and that the Committee had no power to look it up. An application for another teacher was consequently refused. An application from the Misterton Committee that Mr Smith should be appointed assistant teacher was granted. A similar application from the Mauriceville Committee with reference to Mrs Mcßenzie was also granted. Mrs Richardson was appointed sewinp mistress at Parkvale School, £5 was granted towards the Cross Creek school repairs. The Aohonga school is to bo brought ijnder the regulations of the Board The Secretary was instructed to ask for a site for a school at the Pahiati|a Village Settlement. The luspefitof was instructed to Report on the Wailiakeke additions. The Board could not accede, in the present ijtate of its finances, for the altera-. (maltha faueru school, The report qf the pupil teachers was adopted, A oommittee was appointed to consider what should be. done in view of the recent reductions of the Education vote.

NEW ZEALAND DEFENCES. , It is intended to test the efficiency of the torpedo branch of the defence of the Colony, and with this view the whole of the permanent force of the Colony connected with the working of torpedoes and laying of mines will be summoned to Wellington (with perhaps the exception of the storekeeper at inland,) The display is fixed to gfiipiipe oil $9 st)| January, tlig fgrk will 'tsike spnie three months before the'fiiiai test is made. Captain Falconer, RE., who is well versed in this mode of warfare, has been trusted with the full charge of making the arrangements, and as the Torpedo branch is known to possess ii}iM)y -jylio p incapable of the work is b'js %ij'tiqn tq wpd put a){ tlie nqeiij and place this Ipnplioi) supha fofl't: i|)g arjd oQimwwlihg offipergpf wav vpgspla of other nations on visiting New Zealand will at once see that one portion of the naval defence of this Colony has not been neglected. The torpedo launches at Lyttelton and Port Chalmers are expected here shortly, and will take part in the wan«we«,

BOUGH ON IUTS. Invercakoiu, Noyembep 29, An old resident, named John Vint, ongaged as a hawker, has committed suicide by taking " Rough on Rata." FATAL MINING ACCIDENT, Thames, November 29 , A man named Richard Baden waa killed to-day, while working in the Saxon mine, bv a mass of stuff falling on him. Death was instantaneous. He leaves a wife and family, ■