LATEST INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1514, 18 March 1882, Page 2

LA TEST INTERPRO VINCIAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH - OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Last Night.

Joseph Gordon Parnell was. charged ■with breaking into the Windsor Castle hotel, "with the intention of criminally assaulting Mrs Darnells. Evidence went to show that the prisoner climbed a ladder and got into the passage by a window in the upper storey of the hotel. He entered one of the rooms, undressed, and entered the room where Mrs Daniells slept. Mrs Daniells had been ill for nine or ten days with low fever, and the husband was sleeping in another bed in the same room. He had been up once or twice to attend his wife during the night, and when he heard her calling him he thought she wanted to be turned in bed ; so he got up and put his arm round her as he thought, but he found it was the prisoner. When he found out it was a man in his wife's bed, he lifted him from the bed and struck him ; and as he would not stand up, lifted him up by his whiskers. The house was then alarmed, the police were sent for and prisoner was gave in chai'ge. Painell is one of the A.C. stationed at Pungarehu. He had been the same afternoon a competitor in the swimming matches in the Botanical garden. The case was adjourned till Friday week, bail being allowed in two sureties of £50 each.

S. Patrick's Day passed oft very quietly. The banks, insurance companies, and solicitors kept close holiday. The Australian pedestrians won the principal events at the sports.