----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller SHIPPING NEWS: Arrival - Aug. 31 - Manapouri, s.s., from Northern ports. Passengers - Misses WARNER and WILLIAMS; Mesdames CARLTON and SUNDERLAND; Messrs CHUDDINGTON, TURNER, ISAACS, PINKNEY, CALDWELL, SHERA, FLINN, JARRATT, SMITTON, CRAWFORD, NORRIS, and 5 steerage. Departures - Aug. 31 - Manapouri, s.s., for Melbourne via Southern ports. Passengers - Misses KNOWLES, LEES, KITSOU, and DOUGLAS; Mesdames JACOBS and family; Messrs JACOBS, PERRY, MORRIS, HILLS, PERRY, CLARKE, CHURCHWARD, FERNANDEZ, and LIONEL. Aug. 31 - Kiwi, s.s., for Wellington. Griffiths Anthony FLEMING, the man who by his had freaks caused such a sensation at Mrs MACDONALD's boarding-house on Sunday, was yesterday brought up at the R.M. Court and charged with lunacy. On the application of the police defendant was remanded for a week for surgical treatment. There appears to be no room for the slightest doubt that the poor child Kate TRAVERS was drowned when she disappeared, in spite of the uncertainty which at the time enveloped her fate. A couple of small charges of dynamite were fired yesterday about 250 yards from the residence of the child's parents, and subsequently the little thing's dress was found on the beach, and was identified by Mrs TRAVERS as that worn by her daughter when she disappeared. The hooks were torn away, and the dress was also torn in front. No sign of the body, however, has yet been discovered. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., Sophus Christi TOUIATI, a delapidated looking creature of Mediterranean origin, was charged with vagrancy, and convicted. Two previous convictions were recorded and Sergeant CULLEN expressed doubts of defendant's sanity. He was sentenced to a month's hard labor. John M'CLUSKEY, for drunkenness, was fined 10s and costs, and for using obscene language was sentenced to three days' hard labor. George MARSH, for drunkenness, was fined 5s and costs. David GLENDENNING was fined 1s and costs for failing to keep a light burning all night on a hoarding round the new building being erected for WILLIAMS and KETTLE, Limited. The following were fined for cattle trespass:- Robert WILLIAMSON, 10s and costs A. M'DONALD, 2s 6d and costs Michael BEAGLEY, 5s and costs John LAURENSEN, 2s 6d and costs Joe MANAENA, 5s and costs J. Le GEYT, 5s and costs, and J. LITTLE, 2s 6d and costs. A peculiar case of breach of the Stamp Act was heard at the R.M.Court yesterday before Mr TURNBULL, R.M. Louis BINNIE, charged with the breach, pleaded guilty on the advice of his solicitor, Mr LASCELLES, who said that the prosecution was due to spite..........His Worship fined defendant 5s, with costs 18s, and witnesses' expenses 16s. Waipawa - Stewart ANNAND had a very narrow escape from losing his life yesterday. He was showing a horse to his father in their yard, holding it by a rope, and standing in front of it, when the horse pulled back and then relaxed the rope by stepping forward; not being ready ANNAND fell, and in so doing the rope got entangled with his foot. Before he could recover himself the horse ran out of the yard and up the middle of Ruataniwha-road, dragging the youth behind him........except for a few bruises he was little the worse.