TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1288, 14 July 1886, Page 3

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Kimberley. Auckland, July 14. Forty-seven passengers have been booked here for Kimberley per steamer Tamaai, The Petrel Case. The defence in the Petrel case opened this morning, Mr Cotter gieing a lengthy and lucid address on behalf of the prisoners, pointing oat discrepancies and exaggerations in the evidence, The Oreat Barrier Murder. Arrived at Hassell last night Arawata from Fiji. She ropoita no signs of the cotter Soverign of the Seas. Religious Revival. The Rev J. S. Smalley, special evangelist last night closed a most successful series of meetings in the Pitt street Wesleyan Church. The proceedings have been of tbe nature of a religious revival. A Licensing Committee’s Case. Wellington, July 14, Judge Richmond gave his de lsion this morning in the case against the Cook Licensing Committee Ho refused to grant a mandamus holding the decision of the Licensing Committee was final. The Orphanage Enquiry. Cheistchuiioh, July 14. The Orphanage Committee reported today on the enquiry into the alleged cruelty to a chili by wa blag him in the open air on a cold wet day. They consider the method of cleansing which had been adopted wes injudicious, but that no ultimate barm resulted, and that the whole matter war much exaggerated by the persona making the camplalnt. Fire. At 7.30 a.m. to-day a cottage at St Albans, owned by Rev Dolomore, occup’fcd by Hewitfield, traffic foreman of the tramway, was burned down Insurance — house, £IOO, in Standard, furniture. £BO, National. The cause Is supposed to have been accidental.