NAPIER NEWS-NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 548, 23 December 1890, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS-NOTES.

(FBOM OUB OWN OOBBBSrONDBNT.) Napier, last night. Captain Preaca was occupied nearly all today with the case of alleged criminal libel, Frederick Casein v. Peter Dinwidd e and Bichard Thomas Walker, Defendants were committed to trial, bail being allowed of £5O each. At the Supreme Court on Saturday the case of Tanner v. the Northern Investment Company was concluded at about 8 p.m., when the jury brought in a verdict for the defendants on all the issues, and the Chief Justice entered up judgment aocoriingly. The ques'ion of accounts was, however, reserved, defendants having consented to a decree for accounts. Colonel Herrick, of Forest Gate, was killed last Friday by falling over a cliff at Waihi Falls, Weber Survey District. Deceased, with two daughters, and five other persons,formed a picnic party. Most of them were at the foot of the falls, but Colonel Herrick was at the head. Those below were suddenly horrified at seeing deceased falling down the falls, a distance of about eighty feet. In the descent he struck a rock, and, it is supposed, fractured hiskull. He fell into deep water, and one of the party, Mr Hughes, dived in and got him out. Life was not then extinct, but he died in an hour and twenty minutes. Colonel Herrick was a very old settler, having arrived in New Zealand about 40 years ago. Ha had served in the Imperial Army, and during the Maori troubles commanded ihe forces at Waikaremoana, in ths pursuit of Te Kooti iu 1869, and was raised to the rank of LieutColonel on the cessation of the war. He took to pastoral pursuits and took an active part in local affairs at Hawke’s Bay, having at one time been Chairman of the Waipawa County Council, He was held in very high esieem throughout the district, and much sympathy Is felt for ihc hti’eaved relativje»