Playing with Firearms.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3107, 18 January 1889, Page 2

Playing with Firearms.

teeii years-of age,; HViug"atWairoaj nijd quiteunacquuinted witlifirijaViDSr placed several eharge3.Qf powder and lead in a fowlingpiece and fired the obavfic. Tlie explosion was terrific. One breecli ms blown out' and tbe krrel and.stock splintered; r.Thelad is ye«y. seriously injured;.,'. ,'••■ .Government Insurance libel! . ;- ■'. Cm-.. :■-. ' . Welunoton, Friday; v ' Another Insurance libel'case began this morning,' Mr M. C. Hiekey, canvasser, suing Mr D. M. Luckie, Commissioner of. tbe' Government I Insurance Association .for Of GOO dauiages/for accusing him of appropria'tiiigH promissory note, given by one Hogg in payment, of .premium, and threatening lo.pnt'thVmatter'in tbe bands of the polices if the money was: not paid. The .deferice; is a general denial: Plaintiff,-in evidence, said'it.was against tbo',instructions .of the department to talte'promissory notes, mid to accelerate the -transaction with Hogg, he agreed to pay the latter's premium himself,' if Hogg gave him a. promissory iiote. It was purely a private matter between them,. .; i;.V ■'■ ■->'".-

The Estate of liiia & CoNapier, Friday, The statements of the assets and liabilities ■ in the estate of Kinross, filed with ihe Assignee, show secured creditors, L 131.23 0; unsecured,L 45,559, total, hmm Assets— Srcuribies'-valued; at L 172.454.; book, debts, L 16,150 estimated to produce LSOOO. Other .properties with the stock in the store and sundries bring up the estimated surplus to L 8,191. PENSIONS. Auckland, Friday. . It is estimated that £16,000 is paid anuually in Auckland in Imperial pensions.

Alleged Robbery and Desertion.

Donedin, January 17. At the Police Court, Gerald E. Hodgson was churged with stealing L 7 on the-11th January, at Wellington, the property ot Ada Cahill. .Detective Henderson said he had arrested the accused upon receiving a tolegram stating that a warrant had been issued in Wellington. He asked for a remand until the information arrived, His Worship said he ' could »rar.t no remand unless the information was before him, No arrest was legal unless the officer executing it held a warrant, not simply a telegram slating that it had been issued. Hodgson was brought before the Court later in the day on the information by Detective Henderson, who applied for nremand to Wellington. The accused said the case was a trumped up one, brought by an immoral woman in a moment of jealous temper. Detective Hendersen said they were advised it was a mean robbery and desertion, of .an unfortunate wonian and an illegitimate ohild. The case was remnn : dwl until to-morrow to enable the accused to telegraph to Wellington to see if it could be withdrawn in time to enable him to proceed to. Melbourne by the Mararoa. '

FALSELY ACCUSED. Dunedin, Friday, Hodgson, arrested on a warraut from Wellington, was discharged, the Magistrate stating tho prosecution was questionable and evidently the outcome of jealousy.. Tho .accused produced high testimonials while in the Government service.

The Bootmaker's'Strike--1 . Wellington, Friday. The bootmakers' Btrike is settled | by mediation, and the' Federated Trades Council men have resumed work. : An Interesting Decision. CHRiSTCfiuiioii, January 17. ■ An interesting decision was given in tho Wupretue Court to-day by Mr Justice Ward in the case brought by the Mercantile Finance Company against H. Marks, The defendant had seized the furniture of H, S. Austin, over which the Company had a bill of sale, and to prevent him from selliug, the company deposited £IOO. Marks alleged that the premises on wfiioh the goods' bad been seized had been purchased by Austin from him under an agreement, oneolauseof whioh provided that if tho purchases should fail to pay. the interest on the purchase money, the vendor should have power to distrain on the premises, with all powers of sale and remedies which the low gives to landlords as against the tenant, £lO2 was duo under that arrangement. Mr Knssell, for the plaintiff,''ated Pullock v. Ashby, L.J.Q.B. 375, to prove that the clause of the agreement under which Marks seized was a bill of sale under section 3 of the Chattels Securities Act, ,1880, and should have a schedule 'attached. As it had no schedule it ;was void,, The. Judge upheld the contention! and gave judgment for iho.pliiinlilE. .'"■ ."■

The Loan Pictures forDunedin Exhibition-

. Dunedin, Friday. The Colonial Secretary advises the Exhibition 'Commissioners that it will cost 15000 to. send over the pictures now in the-Melbourne Exhibition. The Colonial Secretary wires, "if your Committee is of opinion'that the pictures ought, to he had oven at something-like the above cost the Government will communicate the decision to -Mr Twopenny, and ask him to do everything possible to lessen the expense, and also telegraph ; lo the Ageut-Gdiieralto use his best [efforts to;get as maiiy of the pictures ;as lie' can." The Committee asked that Mr Twopenny .be instructed to I report what portion of the loan collection -is. available, and the cost under the beat, arrangement possible,

Wanted'aii Owne*. Duxewn, January 17, The police have no-clue:to ; the mother of the child whose.body was foiiilc|'in'th'e ljai^ojir-', > At {he'inquest a'de'a) of to''.the effect piat'the body jyas. to 1 allow pf a judgment being formed as to.whether the ohild lived. --The coroner said, when ■;the--.infant /was found dead the '.law .presumed'it'was bom;.'''^" l "^ 9^'^^^A *^P^P? of it haviug lived i ■;> Au .tiper) verdiotias