NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2592, 28 July 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[l"BB FBBSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, July 2f. J. M. Shepard, the absconder, was a passenger by tbe Bingarooma for Timaru, in charge of Constable O'Shea. The brigantine Nightingale, whioh put in here on her passage from Melbourne to Whangarei, had sprung a leak, and will be docked to discover the leak. A oable message received from Licegie and Co., Sydney, states that Hayes hag at last escaped the hands of justice, and that every endeavor to hold him and forward him from Adelaide to Auckland proved fruitless. Tee Court ordered his discharge from custody under a writ of habeas corpus. In a recent cable message his assets were given as £I4OO odd, and the liabilities £685. The liabilities nearly amounted to £I4OO, and the assets to £605, which were found on him when arrested.

Now that Winiata's fate has been definitely settled, it may be stated that he has con'cased to several persons having pcrpatratsd the murder of Packer.

The gill Sarah Johnson, of Cambridge, whose infant was fonnd buried in a garden at Cambridge, has been arrested on a charge of concealment of birth.

Samuel Joy was arrested at Ngaruawahia for bigamy, in marrying Julia Parmley, his wife being alive.

WANGANUL, July 27. An inquest was hsld today on the bsdy of John Aylesward, who jumped off the bridge last night. The verdiot was " Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity." WELLINGTON, July 27. At a meeting of the Executive Council it was decided not to interfere in carrying out of the sentence of death passed on Winiata for the murder of Packer. The date of execution will be fixed by the Sheriff. The New Fly mouth Gas Company held their annual meeting this aftsrnoor, when a dividend of 5 per cent, was declared, and 5s added to the oapital stock of each shareholder.

In Bunco, judgment was given in Castillo V ODjnnell and others. This was a oase heard at the last sitting of the Court, of Appeal, in the form of a motion for a new trial, er to enter judgment for the defendant. The action was one for injury done to plaintiff *s leasehold property by mining operations being carried on by defendants and others at Oroniuville, on the Totara river. At the trial, which was held in Wellington iu April laßu, s vrdicfc was found for the plaintiff for the sum of £OO. Their Honors discharged the case with cost*. -Tui?' l "" l ' in the aotion will therefore stand for the plaintiffs.

TIMABTJ, July 27. Two stacks of barley at Waitohi Flat, the property of D. Heffernan, were burned last night. They were insured for £IOO in the Boyal. The policy expired at noon to-day. DUNE DIN, July 27.

At the Supreme Court to-day the case of McLood v Reovea waa heard. It arose out of the Dunedin Industrial Exhibition, MoLeod, an exhibitor, having been given in charge for larceny of wine. The charge waa dismissed. MoLeod cued for damages, but was nonsuited, but was granted a new trial, and now again sued for £2OOO damages. Affer two hour*' consultation, the jury found a verdiot fox 40s, which carries coats. A nonsuit point was reserved and will be argued in banco. At the Polioe Court a man named Knight was charged with stealing certain goods from the household of a man named Karton, at Timaru. Knight boarded with Karlon, who ill treated his wife, and Mrs Kirton and the children left Karton and came to Dunedin with Knight, bringing some of the household goods with them. I'he .Resident Magistrate told accused he had acted like a foci, and might have got himself into serious trouble. However, tho case would be dismissed. Constable Hilliard, of Yictoria, has returned without having learned anything to show that the man Forbes, supposed to have been murdered at Sla well, was ever in New Zealand.

Mr and Mrs Callander, of tho Taieri, who arrived here in the first ship in 1848, have just celebrated their golden wedding. INVEROABGILL, July 27.

A Q-jro resident, addicted to drinking, has, under the provisions of the Lioansing Act, taking out a prohibition order against him■elf.