BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
Christchurch, July 5. The Supreme Court, was occupied for twelve hours yesterday with the trial of William Townsend for manslaughter in a midwifery case. A verdict of "Guilty" was returned, and prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, without hard labor.
Auckland, July 6. MrW. C. Wilson, proprietor of the 'N. Z, Herald,' died last night, aged sixty-six.
[From our own Correspondent.)
Wellington, July 4,
The ' Post' to-night re the third failure in three months of the Californian mail steamer to call at Napier, says :—"lt becomes daily more evident that the maintenance of this idiotic coastal service is impracticable. At the same time, as the contractors undertook the coastal service with their eyes open, and fully awake to its risks, and as they are subsidised by a payment of L 15,000 per annum and freedom of all harbor dues for this special work, so long as it remains a part of their contract, they should be compelled to perform it or be punished tor failure, whatever the dangers of the Napier roadstead or the narrow and crooked channel of Port Chalmers and its shallow double bar. The present case is a flagrant breach of the contract, and it should be dealt with by the Government accordingly,"
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Evening Star, Issue 4168, 6 July 1876, Page 3
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210BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Issue 4168, 6 July 1876, Page 3
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