TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 111, 8 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.') AUCKLAND, October 7. The Supremo Court was occupied with the charges of wilful murder against Charles Dyer, an old Bakin settler. Kim evidence showed (hat the deceased, Elizabeth Battersea, prisoner’s niece, cohabited wbh Dyer, (she was a poor broken-down wretched creature scarcely able to walk unassisted. The prisoner is a powerful man. They lived on very bad terms. On the morning of Battersea’s death, prisoner was beard to threaten to “ roast her alive.” In the afternoon, he was seen carrying her with her clothes all blazing to the creek near their house. _ He threw her in, and tnen dragged her out in a fearfully burnt and dying condition. She afterwards died. When arrested, he said she had knocked her head against a kerosene can, which spilled the oil over her, and he, striking a match, accidentally set fire to her. The constable who visited the house prior to the occurrence, deposed that the kerosene can was in the same position, and contained the same quantity after the prisoner’s arrest as before occurrence. Tbe oil was spilled all round where the deceased sat but not on the parts covered by her dress. He alleged that the prisoner threw the kerosene over her and (hen set fire to her diess, and afterwards carried her out and threw her into the creek. The case will probably last through to-morrow. The races were well attended. lIA NDICAP BWEKPSTAKES. Creeping Jenny I Bedouin ... 2 Slander 3 Steeplechase. Mr Perkins’Rustic 1 Highflyer 2 Hurdle Race, Isle man Sultan 2 S ELLING- ST E EPL ECUASE. Mr. Perkins’ Rustic, 1 Selling- Hurdle back, Sultan led till the last hurdle, when he threw Thorpe, his rider, rolled over him, dislocating his shoulder. Middy Ashore then won easy. G RATIAMSTOWN, October 7th. It is reported that, arrangements have been come to between the Pumping Association, the Bright Smile, and the Waiakaraka Mines re drainage contributions, which will obviate further litigation. THIS DA TS TELEGEAMS. Dunedin, October 8. The Supreme Court adjourned till Monday. The rate of wages obtained by immigrants per Christian McAusland are : —Single girls, £3O to £4O a year ; single men, as farm servants, £45 to £52 ; one married couple, £6O.