TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 165, 7 January 1873, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[from our own correspondent.] —♦- - ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF DETECTIVE FARRKLU AN EX-POLICEMAN ARRETED ON SUSPICION. A NAVVY KrT.T.ED AT GREEN ISLAND. THE CItIMIVAL SESSIONS. THE MARTIN'S BAY TRACK. THE CITIZENS' BALL IN DUNEDIN. DUNEUIN, Tuesday, 9 a.m. On Saturday night, about half-past eleven, Detective Fan-ell, while proceeding home, was shot at from behind and wounded in the neck. Four shots were fired, but only one took effect. Ryan, an ex-sergeant of police, is in custody charged with the offence. He was brought up on the charge at the Mayor's Court yesterday, but was remanded, Farrell being unable to appear. At Green Island, on Saturday, one of Brogden's navvies was killed Dy falling over a precipice with a horse. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened yesterday. Robert Littlecott was found guilty of embezzlement at Oamaru. John Peter Beck was found guilty of unlawfully wounding his wife at Coal Creek, Teviot, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.—[Some reference to this case will be found in a paragraph under the head "General News" in our sixth page.] Peter Robertson, for robbery at Kyeburn, was also found guilty, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. It is stated that the Provincial Executive has accepted the tender of Mr Sandison for cutting a track from the head of Lake Wakatip to Martin's Bay : the work to be commenced at once. The Citizens' Ball in honour of the Governor took place last night, and was a brilliant affair.