BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3938, 8 October 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Grahamstow.-t, (mtoher 7, /Vta meeting last niivht to consider the Representation Hill, a resolution wan earned protesting again-t the Bill, as it deals unjustly w ith the electoral district of the Thames, and expressing the opinion that three additional m»mb rs should bo given to the Thames. Au amendment was put to the effect that the meeting had no co- fidence in the desire of the present government to do justice to the Thames in the matter of representation, nnd expressing a hope that the coming general election would place the Government of the country the hands of men more competent to wield it, and influenced by more honest motivu.i. This found m».ny supporters, but was lost on it show of hands. A fur!her resolution was carried to telegraph the resolutions to Maior Atkinson, Sir G. Grey, and Mr O’Neill. . Auckland, Oc'ober 7. William Smith, for obtaining money and gom .a und-'r false was sentmcod to three years’ imprisonment. Christchurch, October 7, At the Supreme Court to day, Wm. Mackay, alias G orge, for larceny, was sentenced to three months’ ; Christopher Werner, late steward of the Canterbury Club, charged with embezzlement, was found not guilty by direction of the judse, on the grounds that the indictment ahould have been for larceny of a cheque. October 8. A, a meeting of the Philosophical Institute last night it was announced that a statement of the case at issue between Or Haaat and the governors of the New Zualand Institute had been forwarded to the Royal Society. At the Suureme Cour% W, Jackson, charged with sheep-stealing, lyas found guilty. Waimate, Octobers. Early this morning, Merry’s store took fire, and was shortly burned to the ground. It was insured in the Standard Office foi LBOO, and the loss ia nearly covered.