INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 650, 6 October 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(FIIOM OUR OWN UoitKKSfONDENT.)

THE NEW MINUTEU. UIIiIISTOIJUIIOH, OcLoIXH , 5c Mr 15. G. Wiijjht lei't for Wellington tonight, piesti(i) ibly to taho the vacant Ministerial pot t folio which thy Government has daiinitoly oilVred h'un. FATIIKa O'MALLEY'S CASE. The two Cohens, who disposed oi some clothing at Dniedin io O'Alalloy, upoii what \v;ts said to iiavt; linen false siatuments, were discharged to-day from custody.

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The Christ's College Grammar School aunual sports were well aiiended to-day,

THE ABSCONDING DEFAULTER

It is thought that the ex-civil servant Wm. Rattrav, wlio, on the 7;li July last was committed to take his (rial on two separate charges of embezzlement, and who failed to respond to his ba'l ivlie:! called on, at the Wellington Supreme Court, yesterday afternoon, lias managed to escape to America, via Fiji. He was admitted to hail in his own recognisance of £100, and two sureties of £25, in eaoU case. Just before the Court rose yesterday the Crown pro-eculor applied that a warrant might he issued for his arrest. Judge Kichmond itiquiie.i where tlio missing man was suppoed to be. Mfliell replied tli.-it he did not know, but promised to insikti(.e eiiquiu -a at o'iee. His Honor thereupon granted the app'.ieatii) • for a warrant, rein irking th :t it was about twenty years sin-e he had issued a warrant under similar ciruumst mees. The sureties were Mr J. Slieeluu, 11 Ilk., and Sir Geo. Wiiumoiv. TUB GREAT LONGUUIiST CASE. The trial of James Jonathan Adams and hia daughter, a girl about 10 years of age, for alleged conspiracy, was commenced at the Wellington Supreme Court this morning. Tiie case is expected to extend over at io-sMt two days. Quite a liule army of witnesses will be examined, am mg them the prisoner Longhurst, who is now undergoing a term of imprisonment, after being convicted of committing a criminal assault on Genevieve Elizabeth Adams. Before the evidence \'/a« entered upon today, the Judge ordcre.l ail women and boys to be excluded from the Court. Mr Shaw in opsonin n the case for the prosecution, said witnesses would be called to slate that defendant hvl signifitul his willingness to sell the k'-y of the Wellington fjrtol where Lionghurst was con— lined, for a momentary consideration, and " a month's start." Nut only before Longhurst's trial, but after it, the elder defendant bad repeatedly so compromised himself to several persons, as to raise a grave suspicion in any unprejudiced mind as la whether defendant really believed that hi.-: daughter spoke the trutii at the trial in question. Her father's evidence at that, trial whs not material, and therefore be it as false as hoi I be could not be convicted of perjury ; hence it was that tho present charge of

•■■;:•!:ouW-icy had been preferred instead or! ore of perjury, By way of explanation of the delay that had occurred in presenting tliis charge, Mr Shaw said it wis not until all hone hud been lost of obtaining Longhurst's pardon at the hands of those who held the mercy of tlio Crown, that legal steps had been taken. The mother of the prisoner Longhurst was anxious to get her sun out of gaol, and if it had been possible to accomplish this ol.'eet l>3 , any ottif.r me me than the piesent, she would have gladly availed herself of them.