NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 9 January 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WAIPAWA, Thursday. Thk Court sat till midnight yesterday, when Agnes Moian, domestic servant at an hotel at Takapau, was committed for trial for the manslaughter of her illegitimate child.

WELLINGTON, Thursday. A prisoner named Daniel Irvine, charged with assaulting a warder, has been seutenced to 30 days in irons. The Secretary of Education has issued a printed circular to school committees and teachers drawing attention to the facilities supplied hy the Postal Depart* merit for the investment of small savings by school children.

BLENHEIM, Thursday. James Buliff, pilot at Wairau for over 17 years, died to-day. The Spring Creek Road Board, following the example of the Wairau Road Board, declines to contribute, maintenance to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Committee, on the ground that the new Act is unfair to the landowners.

I CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court closed this afternoon with the conviction of William Harrison, accused of arson, who was sentenced to three yean* penal servitude. At an inquest held to-day on Henry Smith Legge, a cerk in the Deeds Registry Office, who died suddenly, it transpired that the deceased's life was insured in the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria for £321, upon which the first premium had been paid on December 22 last. Several bottles that had contained chloral were found in the deceased's room, and three smaller bottles in his pocket. The Coroner, in view of these facts, ordered a post mortem examination to be made, and adjourned the inquest to Saturday.

DUNEDIN, Thursday. The taking of the evidence ia the charge of murder of her mother at South Dunedin against Margaret Brown was not concluded when the Court rote today. Heavy rain it threatening.

jmaay. Benjamin Rudd, a deferred payment settler at Flagstaff, was charged to-day with attempted murder. A man named Waldie and another man were riding past the accused's place and saluted him as "Uncle Ben." He threw stones at them, and then rushed away for hit gun, which he found, wounding Waldie in the neck with a bullet. Accused's sod stated that prisoner had been annoyed for some time by people calling him "Uucle Ben." He only fired the gun with the intention of frightening them. At the Supreme Court, Chas. Anderson and Henry Cracknell were fonnd guilty of assaulting Alice Dedans, and sen* fenced to three month*