NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 August 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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Dunedin Supreme Court. Dunedin, August 23. At the Supreme Court, John M'Cormack in whose case two juries were unable to agree last session was on this. occasion found guilty of incest at Hampden and was sentenced to the maximum punishment of ten years. Thomas Chatterby got 15 months imprisonment for theft of an ovorcoat, and James Cooper, Eobert Mahone and Eobert M'Nab were found guilty of robbing a drunken countryman. The first two were sentenced to two years and M'Nab to 18 months. Attempted Suicide. Chbistchtjboh, August 28. A man named Jame 3 Dolan until lately fireman on the Tarawera was charged at Lyttelton to-day with attempting to commit suicide. Two men had found him in the water and got him out after considerable Resistance on the part of Dolan. Mr Bishop S.M. said it would be much better for accused if he were locked up out of harm's way for a time and he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Execution of M'Lean. ' M'Lean, the Eyreton murderer will be executed on Saturday morning. Strange Occurrence/ Wellington, Aug. 28, An extraordinary occurrence is reported from Kilbirnie. While a family who live at the corner of Goa and Charles streets were sitting at tea a bullet came crashing through the window, and fell among the tea eupaon the table, luckily inflicting no injury. The fact that it had practically become spent wheh it reached the house, shows that it must have been fired from a considerable distance. It is conjectured that it came over over the hill from somewhere in the vicinity of Newtown. Boat Accident Wellington, This Day. Seven seamen of the H. M. 8. Archer were coming ashore in a sailing boot at 7 this morning to take off last night's liberty men. A stiff northerly gale was blowing* W»d when Within fifty yards o*

the shore the boat capsized, filled and sank. The men were twenty minutes in the water before help arrived from the warship, and then two were missing, (T. Niblett and Fred Simpkin) two others were unconscious and had to be restored by artificial means. The party were taken back to the ship.