INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1913, 9 October 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[by telegraph.— press association.! WELLINGTON, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court, to-day, William Smith, for larceny, was sentenced to eighteen mouths ; Anna Anderson, chaiged with infanticide, was found not guilty on the cliaige ot infanticide, but was sentenced to one year on the charge of concealing the bnth of her child. Mahoncy, for bitidg a man's nose ofF, got three months. At the R M. Court, Masterton, Perry and MoKenua, aold prospectors, were committed for trial for obtaining money on false pretences The case arose out of prisoners circulating a rumour to the effect that they had discovered a reef near Masterton, and which is alleged to have been " salted." Wednesday. Two informations for forgery were laid to-day agiinst Thomas Gibson, late town clerk and collector for the Petone Town Board, Gibson has disappeared from the district Defalcations lw\e boon discovered in his books, amounting to about £40. In the Supreme Court, Eddlestone,>for laiceny, was discharged. Edith Wadsworth, for larceny, got twelve months.

NELSON, Tuesday. Oeorcre Adams has l>een arrested at Bi i^htw-itrr. for posing two valueless chcrine^. which wero drawn on the Colonial Bank *t Takaka, where the bank has no branch- Tlle cheques were cashed by two publicans. They were for small amounts.

CHRISTCHURCff, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Ministers' Association yesterday, a resolution was catried protesting against the employment of public property and public funds by Parliament, in Sabbath excursions. "The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry enteieil upon the active work of their annual training yesterday by mounted drill in Hagley Park. There were .about forty on parade, principally from South Canterbury. At the last annual training here there were eighty present. At the S lpreme Court to-day, \N imam Smith, for larceny from the person, was sentenced to two years' hard hbour ; Michael Hiffgins, for breaking into and stealing, to six years' penal servitude ; Christina Smith, indicted with Higgins, was acquittpd. This concluded the ciiminnl sps'lth. At the R.M. Court to-day, G-eorge Ste\ onson \\ ho came fro-n England in the Coptic wis fined £25 for smuggling 2.") second-hand silver watches and tlnee siher chains Wednesday. Two thousand five hundred shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company were sold bv auction yesterday. The p>-ier<; ringed as hiah :is Is Sd to 2s fid. The directors have received the following releiriam from the oil works '—"Boring tbro'igh different stratum of shelly sandstone. 0 Oil showing slightly in the rock, and gis coming up freclv." A private telegram .states that Mr Foster, the muuiger, expects to get oil at about 700 feet. The New Zealand Shipping Company has received the following cable :— London, 7th : " The Kuapehu sailed from Teneriffe Oct. 2. The Tongariro passed Madiera two days ago."

DUNKDIN, T«esf7ay. At the Sepreme Court to-day, Charles Fowler, an nld o'T'iidcr, w.is found guilty of slenlmcr £>24 from the dwelling of Henry Palmer, tombstone dealer, and sentence was defeuecl. Findlay Livinsstonp <!|ot thie 11 months for stealing €10 which had I^een civen to him by David Donald of Bilclntha, to bring to the latter's wife in Duuedin. (xeorge Falser, J.i mes Fhnn, Tlipi-psc Popnleton, who was accused of lobbing Win. Pick, a rabbi ter, in a brothel, of £25 were found not guilty Alexamlpi Foray tb, who was admitted to the Hospitnl yesterday, suffering from compound fracture of the right, leg caused by a truck rnnninc o\er him on a tram line in the bu&h at Catlins River, died this morning Wednesday. A fire took place at Blairs store, North Dunedin, which resulted in the place being completely gutted. Mr Blair was badly burned in the face. The following are the inswances :— Stock : £200 in the Hamburg Magdeburg, and £150 in the Colonial office on the building. At the Supreme Court, to day, a man named Cocker was acquitted on a charge of jobbery from a dwelling. At the City Court, Margaret Sayers was fined £20, -with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, tor sly grog selling. At the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of Chas. Fowler, convicted yssterdav of robbeiy from a dwelling, and upon whom sentence was reserved, his Honour said he should lesene the case for the Court of Appeal to decide whether there had been sufficient evidence to so before a juiy. Ileniy Cooker, for stealing a£l note from a dwelling, was found not guilty, but held for trial on a second indictment. Thos Brown, .i married man, for criminal assault on a girl 11 years old, was sentenced to eight years.