INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2717, 10 December 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(bv telegraph.— press association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The repairs to the Rotorua cost, aboui £300, and to the Orowaite, between £600 and £700. Mr Rose, Collector of Customs, held a preliminary enquiry into the circumstances of the collision, but the Press representatives were not admitted. An exciting scene occurred in the police court to-day, when a man named Phillip Wilberforce with four aliases was charged with stealing £18 from the Sandridge Hotel. He asked for the case to be heard by the Resident Magistrate, this could not be done, and he violently abused the justices, Messrs Hulbert and Johnston, calling them cads, jackdaws, and liars, asserting that he would not be tried by them, and interrupting the evidence till the bench ordered the ease to be adjourned, and committed him for contempt. Inspector Pender persuaded him to apologise, and the case proceeded. The evidence showed that he lodged at the hotel under the name of Pel ham, and while he was there money was missed from the cash box in a drawer in the landlord's bedroom. Late one night the accused was seen crossing the passage from the direction of the landlord's room to his own. The gas was turned out. The police found on him a key which unjocked the drawer where, the money was kept. The bench considered the the evidence insufficient and dismissed the case. The committal lor contempt was withdrawn. NAMER, Monday. Ernest Reginald Beamish, only son of Captiin Beamish, of Chatham Islands, was accidently drowned yesterday, while bathing at Kouini. DUNEDIN, Monday, The body of Mr H. M. Adair, a wellknown draughtsman in Queenstown and Forest Ranger under the Government, was found floating in YVakatipu lake this morning.