INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2815, 29 July 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(BY TKLKIIKAI'H —J'UKSfi ASSOCIATION). MARTOX, Last Night. A von.Nii nvui named Gilliespie shot himself this morning. CH.RISTCH.URCH, Lust Night. A man named G. Wilson was brought down to the Hospital from Craigieburn station badly frost bitten. The ketch Minnie, trading between Lyttrlton and the Peninsula, was wrecked 011 Thursday. .She was lying at anchor at O'Kain's .Bay when a strong! easterly breeze coming up she par Led cable, and drifting ashore became a total wreelc. No lives were lost. Harriett, the wife of Charles Martin, of U'addington, was found drowned ill a water raej here yesterday. She had been under treatment for insanity. l-'rederick Maisland Hadlield, formerly of the City Hotel, was committed for trial today, on three charges of forging the name of Mr Goodwin to cheques 011 the Hank of New South Wales, aggregating .CI Hi Joseph llarrop was charged with him, but dismissed. All the cheques were cashed at the Hank. There are seven more charges against Hadfield, ill two of which llarrop is implicated. DUNJiIHN, Last Night, The infant child of ,Joseph Bond died suddenly at St Kilda 011 Saturday morning. The mother gave it a drink at midnight and found it dead a few hours after At the Police Court to-day, Revlache and Bright, sailors, were charged with assaulting the Police under circumstances nearly leading to a riot oil' George street 011 Saturday night. The men who were drnnli, had been fighting, and as the policc endeavoured to put them in a conveyance to take them to the watch house, the crowd rushed them, throwing stones. Some well-known citizens came to the assistance of the policc, but the crowd managed to rescue Bright. The police were followed to l.iie station by a crowd of nearly 2000 persons, who were hooting ail the way. The prisoners admitted the drunkenes*, but said they knew nothing of the riot. They were both fined -t's, or in default a fortnight's imprisonment. 111 the Picturesque Atlas eases, Mr Carew, R.M., held that the defendants had failed to prove any fraud, and gave judgment for the plaintiffs in all Lhe oasis.