----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller To: Elaine Mattsen Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:55 AM Subject: HB Herald, Thurs. Dec. 17, 1891 SHIPPING NEWS: Arrivals - Dec. 16 - Celtic King, s.s., from Wanganui. Dec. 18 - Te Kapu, s.s., from Wairoa. Dec. 16 - Atalanta, schooner, from Gisborne. Dec. 16 - Wairoa, s.s., from Waikare. Departure - Dec. 16 - Spray, schooner, for Dunedin. Birth - CROWTHER - At Napier, on December 13th, 1891, the wife of S. CROWTHER, of a daughter. Deaths - PARKINSON - At St. Augustine's Parsonage, Napier, on December 16th, the Rev. Joshua PARKINSON, minister of the district, aged 58 years. The funeral will leave the parsonage for St. Augustine's Church at 3 o'clock tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. O'DONOGHUE - At the Provincial Hotel, Napier, on the 16th December, Bridget, the beloved wife of Cornelius O'DONOGHUE, aged 24 years. The funeral will leave the Provincial Hotel for the Catholic Church at 2.30 p.m. today (Thursday). Friends will please accept this intimation. Clive-square looks all the better now that the painting of the fencing is completed. Mr S.J. DRYDEN, the contractor, appears to have made a very good job of the work. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., Robert Smith ROSS was fined £1 and costs for being drunk while in charge of a horse. Defendant was not "in charge" of his own horse when arrested, but of an animal the propety of the BISHOP of WAIAPU. The horse was standing, saddled and bridled, hitched up near the Government lawn, and defendant rode away with it. He was very drunk, and when he got near the Spit he fell from the saddle into the road, and was arrested by Constable HARVEY. Hastings - An inquest was held yesterday by Mr A. TURNBULL, coroner, on the body of Emily ELLIOTT. Dr. FAULKNOR gave evidence as to the post mortem examinations, and as to the intemperate habits of the deceased, and the jury brought in the following verdict: "That the deceased Emily ELLIOTT died through paralysis of the brain and heart caused by chronic alcoholism."