BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2513, 7 March 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OREVILLE’S TELEGRAM COMPANY, REUTER’S AGENTS.) Invercargill, March 7. The Governor and the Superintendent left this morning overland for Dunedin. He will make the Clutlia this evening. Yesterday he opened the Winton lino. Tiie special train CQpveyeci 1300 excursionists. The Horticultural Society’s Showopens to-day, Lawrence, March 7. The nomination for a member of the Provincial Council took place to-day. Messrs Matthew Hay, John Herbert, J. G. Brown, and H. Bastings were prpposed, Christchurch, March 7. At the Criminal Sessions yesterday, George Augustus Schmidt, for stabbing with intent, was sentenced to two years’imprisonment; Frederick Stanley, obtaining money under false pretences, to twelve months ; and Mark Turner, for bestiality, to five years’ penal servitude. At the Criminal Sittings to-day, John James Smith, for larceny, was sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labor ; Walter Johnson, a hardened criminal, for larceny from a warehouse, was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. Hokitika, March 7. Joseph Conn, a livery stable keeper at the South Spit, was swept over the bar iu a boat and drowned yesterday. At the inquest to-day, a verdict of “ accidentally drowned ” was returned. Mauson’s drapery establishment had a narrow escape , from being destroyed by fire. It is thought it is a case, of incendiarism. Nelson, March G. The Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court opened to-day. The calendar is very light, there being only two cases of obtaining money and goods under false pretences. Both prisoners were found’ guilty.

Sir Dayid Mqnro threatens the Colonist with a criminal prosecution for •saying that in causing the clock of the House of Representatives to be put back to pass the Native Lands Bill in 1862, he sacrificed the honor of the Speaker’s office to party purposes.