TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1428, 9 December 1886, Page 2

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

A Va uabie Cargo Auckland, December 9. Sailed—Baiqae A amr for London a cargo valued at £24035, of which tins half is wool. An Important Point An important point wai decided at the Supreme Court sitting in Banco, in the ca»o of May v, Flidon and others, which was an application for prohibition against the defendants who had di.r girded the regulations gi zitted under the Resident Magistrate Act M. Jackson Palmer contended the regulat ona wore man iatory to MagLtrstes, and Mr Thao. Cooper contended th«y were directory. Judge Ward aid he was sorry to decide that if Magistrates disregarded the rules they did no’ sahj.cfc themselves to a writ of prohibition. * Sir Jtriu* Voyel Sir Julius aud Lady Voget.are expected daily to arrive at W'uiwera. Supreme Court. .mapluß. December 9 At (he Supreme Court Joseph B II was found guilty of rape and ordered to be brought up for sentence t.-day, when be was again remanded till tomorrow, Two boys Connor and Roe, guilty respectively of housebreaking and forgery were ordered to enter into recognisances to come up for judgment when called upon In Bell’s nase the Crown entered a nolle proseque against a further lnciic:men>. to s.tce lemale children witnesses (he ordeal of repeating disgusting evidence

Larceny.

Blenheim, December 9. Martin Elliott, a respec ably connected lad, received a month's imprisonment for stealing a roll of clo'h from a tailor’s shop and a pencil c<se from the shop where he had been employed Alleged Libel. iiMAKU. December 9 W. B. Craig, ago. t for ihe Equitable Life Association, was committed for trial this morning on a charge of criminal libel The plaintiff is Murray Aston, a rival insurance agent for the Mutual Life Asmrance Annotation of Australasia. The Dunedin Fire. ioonkdin, December 9 The,enqulry into the tire by which the Railway G-oods Shed at Dunedin Station was des royed, commerced before Coroner Carew this morning No evidence hai, so far, come out to show how the fare originated.