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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4071, 24 March 1892, Page 3

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[Per Press Association.]

She Elflo Ohampion.

Auckland, March 23,

The rifle champion, Sorgt. Doughty, arrived tO'day iu Auckland, via the West Coast, and was received at the Auckland railway station by the rnemboro of his own company (the A Battery) and a largo number of other Volunteers, ns well oe a great crowd of the general public. The Mayor (Mr Crowther) delivered an address eongraiulatingDoughty on hisvicory, and chi era were given lor the obnmpion, who was carried shoulder high to a gun carritgo and escorted to the drill shed, where he was again repeated'y cheered.

Acolionta and Fatalities. Dusedin, March 28, At the inquest on Honoria Fleming, housemaid at tho Grand Hotel, the verdict was death from natural causes. Tho medical evidence showed that sho had been suffering from antenna and dyspepsia, with scute ulceration of the Stomach. The Coroner said he only held the inquest to allay uneasiness In the public mind, owing to tho letters which bad been published. William Henry Sampson, a quarry-

man, was killed at Pott Chalmers this

_ v morning. He was working at a crane, gf which, being wet, slipped, and the T handle broke, striking him over the head, He dipd eome hours afterwardß, never having recovered consciousness. He was 55 years old and married, but had no family.

MioinsasMaelotratos. Wangaxui, Murch 23, An attack recently made upon the Mayor (Mr A. J. I'm sons) hy Mr W. 6. Bassclt throuch a public print, called forth n strong protest from the Bench at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, when Mr F. A. Krull, Chairman of the Justices, referred to the unwarrantable strictures passed upon his brother Justice because he hnpi'ened to bo the owner of ft hotel. Tho attack was, he considered, unfair. While admitting that every legitimate means should be taken to repress tho evils of di inking, to throw a slur upon Mr Parsons and dispute his right as a Magistrate

because he was '.he owner of a hotel

. property was an error, and would fcb not tend to help the cause of the ™ Prohibitionists. In lodging a public protest against the attack, the Chairman referred, to the instance of Sir Polydore do Keyaer, who, while a publican, was elected Lord Mayor of London, was knighted by Her Majesty, and honouted by the King of the Belgians, thus showing the estimation in which ho was generally held. Public feeling is running high here between the Moderate and Prohibition parties.