TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3756, 10 March 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(Per Press Association). stabbing 1 a shipmate. Timaru, March 0* A memorial to the Minister of Justice is being prepared, requesting a mitigation of the sentence of three years' penal servitude passod on a Norwegian seaman named Halvor Olsen last session for stabbing a shipmate. The grounds of the request are that the knife was used in self defence in a drunken row, and that accused pleaded guilty not knowing how grave was the oliarge against bim, the indictment not being interpreted to him. Sm&ui Eolwf Talk

Dunedin, March 9.

A garden party given by Mrs W. H. Reynolds realised £M 17s 4d, in aid of the Kakanui Belief' Fund. The Daily Times list has now reached £2lO.

False Fretonoos.

Auckland, March 9.

The tourist who was arrested when, he had landed from the Mariposa, Mr A. R. Bremner, again appeared before the Police Court to-day. Inspsctor Broliam asked for a further remand, and stated that the accused had been arrested on information received from Melbourne, that he was charged with having obtained £IOO by false pretences from Mr Jno. Barker. Mr Broham said he had received a cablegram from the Commissioner of Police, Melbourne, to the effect that an officer would start with a warrant on the 12th mst. The Bench overruled the objection of accused's solicitor, Mr Hcsketh, that the information was bad, and granted a remand for a week.

A Collision. Lyttelton, March 0. Two shunting trains collided on Saturday, damaging the engines and trucks, but no one was hurt. "WcodvUie Horticultural Soolety* Woodville, March ft The annual show of the Horticultural Society was held on Saturday, and waß the most success; ful ever held by the Society, The show of fruit and flowers was. specially fine. Mr Jaokman at Work.

The Seer Duty. Westport, March 9. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day W. Nahr, brewer, was charged on twenty informations with omitting to keep correct accounts of beer' , delivered from his brewery. Th» defendant pleaded guilty on eighfc .'■, informations, and was fined £SO on each charge, £4OO in all, with costs,: £22 16s. The other twelve informal lions were withdrawn. The offences in each case were technical irregularities.

' Belladonna Poisoning Greymouth, March 9. There has been a narrow escape from poisoning here. Mrs Brimble, wife of Mr James Brimble, publican, while suffering from a severe asked her husband to get a bottle Irish Moss from a drawer to take a dose. In the same drawer was another bottle of the same size containing belladonna. Both are vicious liquids, and both sweet. In mistake, James Brimble also having a cold, took a dose of belladonna, and gave another to his wife. Soon followed symptoms of poisoning, and Dr Millington was called in and administered remedies. The case was so serious that ho sent to Kumara for Dr Miles, who promptly attended for consultation. James Brimble is now out of all danger, and his wife is gradually recovering.

Tno Nelson nop drop. Nelson, Maroh 9. Messrs Buxton and Co., and Dr Levien report the purchase of a shipment of the first bales of new season's hops. The yield is a fairly heavy one throughout the district considering the early part of the season was unfavorable.

TaoMiorl Fo»Mng ProsecutionsCuristchurch, March 9. The hearing of the Maori fishing cases was resumed at Kaiapoi to-day. Counsel for the Natives contended J that the Native rights of fishery guaranteed by the Queen in the Treaty of Waitangi could not be interfered with by the Colonial Government; that under these* rights they were entitled to net all fish, and consequently to net trout, . On the other side it was contended that the Natives surrendered their right of Mahinga Kai by Major Kemp's deed, and that under the decision of Judge Fenton in 1868 the Maoris here gave up their claims in consideration of a grant of land in the Timaru distriot. Judgment was reserved.

AcoiAonts a&a Fat&UtieiAuckland, 9. A young man named Owen was accidentally shot at Motutapu Island . to day by his brother, tho charge entering his leg. '^ e wound is not dangerous. His Excellency the Governor, who was on the island with Admiral Lord Charles Scott and others shooting, liad Mr Owen coa« veyed to town in the steam launch, and he was then taken to the hospital. Later. The young man Owen who was at Motutapu was ono of a yachting party who visited the Island a few days ago. He was shot by one of his comrades (not his brcth«r), and received the charge in his tbigh, so that it is feared he will lose hie leg. He was brought to town on board> H.M.S Lizard, which took tho Governor and Admiral to Motutapu, and he was then taken to his parents' house. Owen is 19 years old, and the son of Mr G. W. Owen, tho well known merchant. A man named Prederiok Reynolds l had his leg crushed between two railway carriages at Hfelensville this morning. He was brought down to the Hospital, but di6d soon after admission. Tho man was in a state of shock when brought to town; and his death was also accelerated by heart disease,