TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1527, 9 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

C A B L E_N E W S. SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. London, January 5. The Cornish Bank and Messrs Tweedie and Williams have failed. The liabilities arc very large in both cases. The Macedonian rebellion is crushed. Frightful atrocities are charged against the Turks.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [PEE PEKBB AGENCY.J Wellington, January 9. James Mackie, who was yesterday found guilty of larceny and forgery, was this morning sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. Referring to the recommendation to mercy made by the jury, the Chief Justice said that as Mackie was thirty-one years old he had passed that age when such a recommendation could be entertained. There was also no excuse for the prisoner on the ground of insufficient salary. Of the money robbed from the Anchor Lino office, £206 has been recovered. It was found in a parcel under the house where the office boy, named Bacon, is living. The lad has been arrested. At a meeting of the Wellington District Highway Board yesterday, one of the wardens said that during his thirty-nine years’ experience in this district laborers were never so scarce as at the present time. The Hntt County Council are taking a legal opinion as to their claim to a twentieth part of the proceeds of sale of the reclaimed land. They also consider they were entitled to a twentieth share of the amount realised by the sale of the Wellington courthouse and site. The Board also discussed the unfairness of allowing Maori landholders to be exempt from paying rates, while the poorest European who rented only a couple of acres from a Maori landowner had to pay. A great scarcity of room for shipping is felt at the Public Wharf, the Pleiades having been waiting eight days for a berth. The wharf extension contract has been completed, and will be formally handed over to-day to the Corporation. The lad Bacon, arrested this morning for robbing’ the Anchor Line office, at first denied the robbery, but after some little time he confessed he was guilty. He said that some other boys were in it with him. but this is doubted. Besides the mouoy a now Martini-Henri rifle and two boxes of ammunition was discovered. The plunder was found by some little boys while playing under the house, which is built on piles. The boy Bacon has made a further confession of having £ls in a pocket-book planted at Wadestown, and has gone with a detective to show him where it is. The lad is only about fourteen, bnt smart and hold for his age. This makes up all the money, with the exception of about £2O, of which nine guineas was paid for the Martini Henri rifle. Besides the rifle and ammunition, there was a swag of new colored blankets tied np with straps in i-eadiuess for the road. The money was rolled up in a copy of a newspaper containing an account of the Kelly gang. Timaeu, January 9. Chadwick, the chemist of Pleasant Point, who attempted suicide yesterday morning, got worse last night. Dr. Mclntyre was constantly in attendance on the unfortunate man. This morning more favorable symptoms showed themselves, although ho is not yet out of danger. Poet Chalmers, January 9. Paterson, the providorc of the s.s. Easby, was fined £25 at the Conrt to-day, for smuggling a case of brandy. A man named Wybourd, who carried the case ashore, was fined £3.