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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 52, 16 December 1882, Page 3

[_EB fNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION".] Auckland, This Day. Priestly, who was represented by Mr Tyler, and Mrs Hamilton by Mr Cooper, were chnrged at the police court with Hamilton's murder and remanded until Friday. Priostly was calm but MrHamilton was much agitated. Pries lly has made three statements each contradicrory re his whereabouts on the night of the supposed murder. H orton, the chemist, who was remanded on the charge of attempting to murder Mrs Eayner at Devonport, w r as found dead in his cell at Mount Eden gaol at. 3 o'clock this morning. An inquest will be held at two o'clock this afternoon. Suspected suicide by poison. DtrNEDi_r;' This Day. John Winpenny, a clerk in the employ of Messrs Sparrow & Co., was drowned this morning, while bathing at the Ocean Beach. The body was carried out to sea. Chbistchttbch, This Day. The Canterbury Anniversary was celebrated to-day. All business is suspended and the weather is beautiful. At 3.30 tbis morning Cashel House was found to be on fire. The Brigade succeeded in extinguishing it before it got a good hold. The downstairs portion was occupied by Craig nnd Smyth, retail drapers, and the upstairs by Ross and Glendining, wholesale drapers of Dunedin Both stocks are much damaged. Craig and Smyth are insured for £0.000, ;ind Messrs Ross & Glendining for £3,500. The fire is believed to be accidental.