SECOND EDITION TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2495, 5 April 1882, Page 3

SECOND EDITION TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBH PRESS ASSOCIATION,! AUCKLAND, April 4. Supreme CourtAt tho Supremo Court to-day John Murphy and George Howard, for garrotting, were sentenced to three and two years respectively ; William 11‘Lean, indecent assault, three years; Samuel Jay, false pretences, and George Vowlos, cattle stealing, were aoquitted* The VmdexThe Yindes is breaking up at Kaipara Heads, The crew have gone to Auckland, NEW PLYMOUTH, April 5. The MailThe Penguin left direct for Wellington with the San Francisco mail at 1.30 this morning. NAPIER, April 5 Suicide. At an ir quest on the body of Henry Franklin, found hanging on a tree at Wainui by a saddle strop attached to his neck, a verdict cf “Suicide while in an unsound mind” was returned. Deceased and his brother were bushmen. They had trsakfast together, and went to work as usual. During the morning deceased went off by himself, and was not found till his brother, going homo in tho evening, saw him hanging. He was quite dead. His feet were only 4in from the ground.

WANGANUI, Aprilß. Sporting-Thirty-five nominations have been received for the Wanganui Derby of 1885, including six Musket foals owned by the Auckland Stud Company. Musket is represented altogether by thirteen foals, Patriarch by five, Puriri by four, and Don Juan by three. WELLINGTON, April 5. A Catholic Land CompanyThe Catholic Land and Endowment Company was registered to day under the Limited Liability Act. Tho company is formed with tho intention of placing all classes of aettlers on their lands, and also to bring the education question prominently before the public, with a view of having a just and equitable distribution of any grant. The first directors until the annual meeting ore tho Hon. William Clifford, of Vernon, Marlborough ; Charles Bed wood, of Biversland, Marlborough ; and James Cook, of Wellington.