POOLEY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 740, 15 March 1877, Page 3

POOLEY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

CttRiSrOHTTROfT, Tuesday.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, Edward Pooley, one of the English cricketers, was oharged with assaulting Ralph Donkin, prior to the cricket match here* Donkin made a bet with Pooley, but considering it a " catch bet," sent a message to Pooley that he cried off. After the match Pooley claimed the amount of the bet, .£36. Donkin refused to pay. Pooley then assaulted him. The parties being separated, Donkin went away. Pooley followed, and an altercation ensued, followed by another assault. The evidence was contradictory as to who was the aggressor in tha second assault, but the R M considered it proved that Pooley struck the first blow in both assaults.

Edward Pooley and Albert Bramhall, money-taker for the English cricketers, were then arraigned for wilfully and maliciously destroying clothes and plans, the property of Ralph Donkin, at 10.30 the same night as the assault. Donkin's bedroom at Warner's Hotel was seen to be in its usual order, and shortly after Pooley was seen to come out of Donkin's bedroom, and Bramhall ..was standing close to the door. At %ll o'clock, Warner, whose suspicions were aroused, went into the bedroom, and found Donkin's clothes and a lot of plans torn up. The damage to the clothes was valued at £35, and the damage to the plans at £6O. The Bench committed both men for trial; bail was accepted, each man in his personal surety for £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO each. Napier, Tuesday. THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY AT MURIMOTU. Messrs. Moorhouse and Booth returned from Muriruotu yesterday. Dr Buller went on to Taupo and the Hot Springs. It is understood that the native difficulty has been ad. justed, the arrears of rent paid, and the survey started. Wellington, Tuesday. The Wellington Municipal Corporation has floated in London the Corporation Consolidated Loan at 102 and 6 per cent, through the Bank of New Zealand. Greymouth, Tuesday. . An attempt was made yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, to burn down the premises occupied byLaing and his wife as a store and dwellinghouse, in Tairua street, immediately opposite where the Greymouth Hotel was burned down. A bundle of wood and rags saturated with kerosene had been placed under the corner of Lhe house and fired. Fortunately, the blaze was • seen before it had good hold, and the fire was. extinguished without doing .much damage. Oamaru, Tuesday. The wheat market is likely to suffer a decline in price. It is at the present quoted at 4s 3d, but owing< to the large quantity of firstclass samples coming to hand, it is expected to decline at least 2d per bushel during the present week. DuNEDiNi Tuesday. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. A late cablegram reports the Knatchbull-Hugesson bill (colonial) legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister has passed the House of Commons by a majoiity of 51. • The death is announced of Helen Faucet, the actress.