YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 868, 6 April 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

4> AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, April 5, The quarter’s revenue shows nearly half a million of increase over the corresponding quarter of last year, principally arising from land sales. The immigrant ship British Enterprise arrived at Adelaide yesterday, having smallpox on board.

INTERPRO YINCIAL.

Dunedin, April 5. At the Supreme Court to-day Alice Lavin, for larceny, was sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment with hard labor; Walter Rogers, for horse stealing, to two years ; Charles Brqdie \ Cooper, for forgery, to five years; William ; Brown, for an unmentionable offence, to five . years ; Walter Ulmer, for larceny, to two i years. Letitia Burke was found guilty of burglary at Oamaru; sentence deferred. In the Police Court tins morning Dodson, of the Empire Hotel, was charged with keeping his house open after eleven o’clock p.m. on Sunday night. The question was regarded as a test one, and judgment was reserved. Supreme Court Proceedings at Wellington. (From a correspondent of the Press,') Wellington, April 5. The present sittings of the Supreme Court have been very unfortunate. In many cases important documents were required, but they were not to be found. Judge Richmond advised the Crown Prosecutor to look more sharply after country Magistrates and their clerks, in order that on future occasions all documents should be forthcoming when wanted. His Honor also referred in pretty strong terms to the fact that several witnesses were either absent or late in appearing in the Supreme Court. To-day Mr Brandon, the lawyer, was witness in a case, and was proceeding to give his evidence while standing at the barristers’ table, when Judge Richmond informed him that he should have asked the Court’s permission to remain out of the witness-box. Brandon said the practice of the Courts was that barristers should not go into the witness box. The Judge said he did not like the practice, and did not believe in making a distinction between persons in Court. After some conversation, Brandon was allowed to give his evidence from the table. In Court to-day a man was charged with forging and uttering a “ cheque, warrant, or authority,” for the payment of money. Mr Gordon Allan, who defended him, raised the preliminary objection that a promissory note which was the document alleged to have been forged, was neither a cheque, warrant, nor authority for the payment of money, and the prisoner was acquitted, but a fresh indictment will bo laid against him.