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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 June 1880, Page 2

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# {BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [7KB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] Dukbdin, May 31, An inquest wns held to-day on the body of Martha Lock hart, who died under suspicions circumstances on FrU Hay night. The evidence showed that her husband wag in the babit of ill using her, and had struck her the night before her death. A verdict of manslaughter against the husband was returned, and he was committed for trial. A telegram received today from Kiverlon states that Print's claim, Long wood, yielded 600o?<i. of amalgam for 60 hofjrs prushing with a S head bat* (erj. Wbllikgton, May 31. It is undergto.pd fhat I)r g r «cp wjll

move the Address in Reply to-morrow in the Legislative Council. The schooner Colleen Bawn, which left here ,fo,r Ha^elock ott the hi ins ant is missing, and fit .is supposed jhe is lost. She waß.iua.te!- the command of Gaptaioj JPyke.and is owned by ™x B,ishop., of, this place, fter bull is insured for £150 in South British. ' • The fleaideut Magistrate yesterday fined the proprietor of the Te. Aro Club £40 and .costs, for selling glosses of liquor to Strike, late of Greymoutb, and others, the Club being illegally formed, and witness not even ostensible members. Judge Shaw! from New Plymouth, acts as Resident Magistrate, from first prox« imo. : s C«BisTOHtfBCHi May £1* A meeting was held this afternoon to consider a proposal from the Mayor to establish a soup kitchen durin? the winten Ultimately # Ms resolved to form a benevolent association ,to supplement the effi>rts.of tfce Charitable Aid Board. Subscriptions for soup kitchen and winter aid to destitute,, are coming in freely. An old lady named Eken, aged 85, died recently at Speydon, three days before her, death she wafted eight miles. Six thousand* fi^shels of oals were sold by auction on Saturday it eighteen pence delivered l op fa«n. ' Nakbb, Msy 28. The Befiident Magistrate has given judgment tor .defendant in a claim for £56, half »Urn of winning ticket in a race sweep, .wJrieb. . plaintiff .purchased under properly signed and stamped agree* roent from defendant for £28, ticket also being endorsed to same effect. The judgment is considered unsatisfactory. Nbsjt Tt#xoptb, May 31? The road parties have passed through a dreadful time during the past week, owing to wet weather and being under canvas. Notwithstanding the mud they are agtin at road work. The road party and A.C.'s had cleared to within a few chains of the main Pariliaka road. They in* tend to push on from there as far as they can, and then to shift camp to Waitaki, which is about five miles distance from here. The party will work, backwards and forwards. Major Gorring's camp is only five miles distant from Waitaki, so that between the two miles there will be only two miles and a half required to be done to connect the; road to the two camps. Te Wbitj has given strict orders that the people are to treat the A.C.'s and the public works volunteers ciyility.