YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1090, 27 December 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

INTERPROVINCIAL. |PEE PEESS AGENCY.] Wellington, December 26. _ The largest audience ever assembled in Wellington filled the theatre last evening to hear the Rev. Charles Clark lecture on " Christmas hi Old England." [pEOM THE COKIIKSPONDENT OF THE PEESS.] Resident Magistrate's Court, Timaru. Timaetj, December 25. At the Resident Magistrate's Court here to.-day, Isabella R. Dick wrs charged with larceny of several articles from J. H. Sutter's shop, where she was employed as head dressmaker. The Court was densely crowded all day, and very strong feeling is excited by the case. The evidence of a numerous array of witnesses proved that a polonaise had been made in the shop by the accused for a customer, but it was a misfit and was returned, and another one was made in its stead. The returned article was left in the showroom for a few days, when it disappeared mysteriously, and was found in the possession of the accused. Eor the defence John Miles, clerk at Gabites, swore he sold material to the accused similar to that of which the polonaise was made. This was the only explanation. It was also proved that ten yards of cloth found in possession of the accused had remained after making three dresses for Mrs Merry, the wife of a farmer living at Hook. Miles and Glasson swore that on the evening on which the accused was arrested they found in her des k a letter, previously written but still unposted, by her to Mrs Merry, and enclosing £1 as the value of ten yards, which remained after Mrs Merry's dresses were made. Inspector Pender objected to this letter being received as evidence, on the ground that it looked as if manufactured, but the Court ruled that it was admissible. Pour yards of print calico were also found in the possession of the accused, these were said to have remained after making a dress for a girl named Adamson. Mrs Adamson, mother of the girl, swore she had given general instructions to the accused to do the best she could for herself, and had told one of her daughters to tell the accused to make a jacket of the fouryards which had remained after the dress. The daughter, though in Court, was not called upon to substantiate the statement. The evidence also showed that the accused had left the emplsyment of Mr Sutter on Friday, 14th instant, and some of the articles disappeared simultaneously. The Court sat until 6 30, at which hour the case was dismissed amidst a burst of applause. Six similar charges against her were remanded until January 4th.