NAPIER NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 350, 12 September 1889, Page 2

NAPIER NOTES.

BROOKING’B BANKRUPTCY THE CHARGE AGAINST MARY RILE. RECOVERY OF THE BOY BLOM. [from our own CORRESPONDENT.] Napier, last night. A meeting of creditors in the estate of Roope Brooking, commission agent, auctioneer, and agent for the Public Trustee, was held on Tuesday. The statement showed —unsecured creditors, £1937 19s Sd ; secured £28015a Value of securities, tame amount; assets, £1933 19s. The meeting was ad. journed for a fortnight. At ths Resident Magistrate’s Court yeater. day, Mary Kyle was charged with the murder of her female infant child. The prisoner, who is a married woman, was delivered of a child at Clifton Station, three months after her marriage to James Kyle, laborer, working on the station, The birth, it is believed, took place without his knowledge, and the body was found in a bag hanging under a dress improver. Since the inquest was opened on September 3rd, Mrs Kyle has been under police surveillance, as aha was too ill to be arrested. On Monday, however, she removed from Clifton Station to Clive, and then was taken into custody. The prisoner is a prepossessing young woman, about 25, She seemed much distressed when formally charged with the murder, weeping bitterly, and on being remanded to Napier gaol exclaimed " Oh, no 1 not that I anything but that I Oh don’t send me to gaol 1” Inspector Kiely assured Captain Preece that special arrangments had been made for the reception and kind treatment of the accused. His Worship told her she would be properly cared for in every respect, and she was removed in a cab to gaol. The prisoner is to be brought up again tomorrow. when the inquest will be resumed. The boy Blom la now quite out of danger. The external wound has healed and all fears of internal injury are set at rest. Probably Blom will be able to appear next Monday at tho R.M. Court, when the boy Hutton will be brought up on remand. At a meeting of the Waipawa Connty Racing Club on Monday night it was decided to resist the action of the Metropolitan Club and combine all country clubs in an association to run against and boycott the Metropolitan Club, and try and urge others to do tne same. A meeting is to be held in the Theatre Royal next Tuesday evening to raise a fund for the relief of the distress in London occasioned by the strike.