INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 263, 24 January 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(fisomTthe lyttelton times.)

/ Dunedin, Jan. 21. The?' police have commenced a vigorous raid./on the unfortunates of the city. Yesterday two of them were arrested alnaost immediately after leaving gaol, anid; the Bench this morning sent them 'pack to their old quarters. About a week ago, a man named Frank South was sent to gaol supposed to be suffering from delinum tremens. He had stripped himself naked in the public streets, and when brought before the Bench he declared that his mind was affected. Shortly after regaining his liberty yesterday he was re-arrested for drunkenness. He conducted himself in a violent manner, tearing his clothes to shreds, and he had to be brought before the Bench to-day enveloped in a blanket. He addressed the Bench in a violent and excited manner, saying he had spent thousands, and that his father had placed him twice in a lunatic asylum. He was sent to gaol for a week, with a view of afterwards undergoing medical examination. — for a large amount will be brought against the Government by Brogden and Sons, for extras in connection with the Clutha contract, bat proceedings have not yet been commenced. An action, it is stated, will be brought by Neill and Boyd, against the Dunedin Age for alleged misrepresentation of the case Trustees of Black v. Watt and others. It is not, however, expected that the case will be gone on with. Gore, Jan. 22. A Press telegram forwarded from Gore to Invercargill says :— -" It appears that Mr Conyers, the Commissioner of Railways, was standing on one of the engines as the train approached the Gore bridge, when he suddenly overbalanced himself, falling to the ground very heavily. A severe gash was inflicted over the eye. The latest intelligence reports him lying at Gore in an insensible condition, and bleeding profusely at the nose and ears. This sad occurrence cast a deep gloom over the whole of the after proceedings." • Auckland, Jan. 22.

The Hon. J. Sheehan has returned from the Thames, where he has cleared a vast amount of work with the Natives, and arranged with them for land for the purpose of the Thames Valley aiffl "Waikato railway, Mr Sheehan and his private secretary left here at nine o'clock in the Stella for Wanganui, where he will be engaged several days with Native affairs. The Stella will go to the North Gape with stores for the men at the lighthouse, ,&c, and on her return will pick up Mr Sheehan and his party. The man Rennell, charged with the murder of a Captain Moller, on one of the South Sea Islands, has been discharged from custody, on the ground of want of jurisdiction in our, courts to try him for an offence committed neither on the high seas nor on British territory. In discharging the prisoner, Mr Justcie Gillies concluded his judgment as follows :— But upon careful examination, I may say that I have reviewed all the statutes which might give power or jurisdiction to the: Court to try the charge against prisoner, but I have failed to find any that confer that jurisdiction. Had 1 been able to find even an apparent authority for assuming jurisdiction, I should, in the interests of public justice, have assumed it, leaving the Court of Appeal ultimately to determine any appeal; but I cannot find any such apparent authority, and I am therefore compelled, through a Legislative defect to permit a manifest failure of justice. The prisoner must be discharged, but I trust that the Government of the Colony will take such measures as will prevent a recurrence of such an event."