AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2585, 20 July 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[FEB BBBSB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, July 19

At'the Supreme Oourfc civil sessions today the oase was heard cf B. Porter and 00. y S. Jagger, W. Easdown and Mathew Hooper, in which £479 17 J 6d are olaimed as compensation for loss of 100 casss of dynamite detonators, -which plaintiffs placed on board defendant's vessel, viz., Atlantic, for conveyance to Wellington in April, 1881. The defendants alleged that at the time the vessel was held by Captain Jamos McKenzie, by virtne of oharter parties. The jury gave judgment for the claim, less unpaid freight £ls. It will be remembered tbat the oase was heard at the last civil sittings of the Court, and that although the jury wcro locked up one night, they were unable to come to a verdict. Hence the reason for a trial de novo.

In the oase of Clark v Scott, about a right-of-way, the olaim was for £IOO. The jury awarded £5, the claim being nominal. At a meeting of the directors cf the Union Oil, Soap and Candle Company, in addition to 1000 shares being taken up by tho promoters 21.56 S shares were allotted to applicants. Orders go home by the mail for the latest machinery from America and England. ponsoDby Peaoock, assistant-inspector of schools, accidentally fell over the North Shore wharf at night, and narrowly esoaped drowning. He clung to a pile for half an hour. His cries for help were unheard, and ultimately he got on a oross beam, thence to the wharf.

Tho Native petition is being largely signed for tho release of Mikare, convicted for the Oxford murder. Mr Jaoob Pitman, brother to the celebrated Isaac J. Pitman, phonogrspher, presided at a meeting to-night for the purpose of forming aPnonafio Society. He intends prooseding South shortly. TE AROHA, July 19. A stabbing caso has oocurred here. It arose out of a publio-houso quarrel. The aocuaed man, Leydon, was very loquacious, and disturbed the boarders, and refused to go away when the landlord told him there was no accommodation for him. A man named O'Eeefo went into the room where he was creating a disturbance and attempted to take away some his olothos, with the view of re moving him, when Leydon raised his arm, and O'Keefe seeing a knife in his hand with the blade pointing downwards, at once dosed with his antagonist, and reoeived severe outs in neok and back whilst wrestling with him and before assistance came to separnto them. Leydon was brought before Mr Wilkinson, the Mayor of the Thames, this morning, and remanded for polioe investigation on a charge of stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm. WELLINGTON, July 19. At the Magistrate's Court, John Adams and his daughter, aged nine years, wore committed for trial to-day on a oharga of having oonspired to conviot George Longhuvst for indecent assault in 1880. The oharge against Mrs Adams will not be proceeded with. BLENHEIM, July 19. On Friday last an aeoident occurred at the Ship Cove, Queen Oharlotte Sound, by which a man named James Boon, aged fifty-four, lost his life. In the afternoon Messrs Bussell, Boon, and two sons left Ship Cove in a boat for Long Island. They had nit pvocoeded far when the boat wa3 struck by a squall, and filled and turned over. All succeeded in gaining the bottom of tho boat, whioh immediately rolled over again. Young Boon, seeing his brother was unable to swim, swam off and grasped him by tho collar of his jacket, and swam baok, only to be washed off again. This happened throe times. Be never lost his grasp of his brother, and succeeded in saving his life. Men on the sohooner Wave of Life lying in the Cove saw tho accident, but owing to the strong wind and high sea, did not. reach the spot for fully half-an-hour, by whioh time James Boon, father of the boys, beoame exhausted and sank. The deceased leaves nine orphans totally unprovided for. GEE rMOUTH, July 19. A strange accident occurred in the Albion quartz mine, Paparoa range, by whioh ono man got severoly burned about tho face and neck. On two workmen going into the tunnel in the morning a quantity of gas exploded on contaot with a lighted candle. The explosion knocked both men down, but one, who had some experience of the gas, threw himself flat down and escaped uninjured. This is the first instance known here of the existence of such gas in quartz mines. Considerable business waa done here yesterday in Beefton scrip. OAMARU, July 3 9. The trial of Richard Beattie for the murder of Sarah Adams was continued to-

day. There was little difference in the evidence, and that given at the inquest. The esse will be resumed to-morrow.

DUNEDIN, July 19. At the Land Board to-day it wm decided that a declaration made by a purchaser of land before a New Zealand Justice of the Peaoe. In Tasmania did cot gtand good, end that the lioenae could be refused in such a oaso.

The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened to day, before Mr-Juatioe Williams. The first ease was that against Philip Wildraann, convicted last session of arson at Qneenstown, but whose case had been reserved for appeal, which not having been sustained the accused now oame up for sentence. The prisoner, in the course of his address to the Judge, strenuously protested his innocence, and asked that sentenoe might be made as favorable as possible in order that upon release he might devote his life to proving his innocence He said he thought half the jury who tried him should have been his own countrymen. He also stated that he had a wife and five children, the eldest of whom was six years of age, and his wife was thrown on the meroy of the world, without anyone to assist her. His Honor said he considered the prisoner justly convioted, and sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. Ohas. Coleman, alias Amos Haynes, was charged with forgery in having uttered a cheque to a storekeeper in tho country purporting to bo drawn by one Pattison, whom prisoner alleged to be a station holder. The case was fully proved. The prisoner arrived hero in 1874, aud ever since almost haß been in gaol. He was sentenced to five years. Thos. Bommago was charged with rape on his own granddaughter, aged nine, at Green Island. It was alleged that ho had oommitted same offence on previous oooasions. He was found guilty and sentence deferred. At the H.M. Court to day the alleged "lambing down" case, in which Robert Wright, from the cauntry, sued Henry Soott, licensee of the Newmarket Hotel, for £lßl3s, balance due on cheque deposited, was continued. The defendant gave evidence of a very confused kind, and although he said he entered all his dealings in books, he did not produce these. ■ The Magistrate said it was a disgraceful affair, and gave verdiot for £l4 13s, allowing £2*lo* for board and lodging for two days and a half, instead of £2l 18s, as dofendant claimed. With regard to the man Kitto, awaiting his trial for killing bis son-in-law at Boxborough, the Medical Superintendent of the lunatic nsylutn has expressed the opinion that the prisoner U not in a fit state to be put on hia trial. A jury will therefore be empanelled for the purpose of deciding whether he is insane.