AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 359, 19 March 1866, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

(GreTille and Bird’s Telegram.) Sydney, February 16. At the wool sales to-day there was an advance in the price of many sorts of a halfpenny to a penny per pound. Sentences on prisoners at Darlinghurst:—Cavanagh, 2 years; Low, 6 months; Renamings, 12 months ; and Brown, 2 years. At Bertrands trial to-day, Mrs. Kerr gave damning evidence against the prisoners but insufficient to convict them. While giving her evidence she became much affected, but was encouraged by Dailey to regain her self-possession. Dailey made a powerful speech, which lasted two hours and a half. He called Bertrand a liar of the greatest magnitude, an inconsistent, frivolous, low, cowardly, abandoned, sensual, blabbing, lying, eccentric, depraved, fellow, but not a murderer. The court was densely crowded. The case, Kingsmiil (formerly manager of the Bank of Australasia at Ipswich, and previously of Maitland) against Whiting, for malicious prosecution for obtaining money under false pretences, came on in the Supreme Court to-day. Verdict for the plaintiff, and £l6O damages, which were laid at £4,000. In Bertrand’s case, the judge, in summing up, charged the jury with a speech which lasted three hours. The jury retired at 12-30 p.m., and returned at 2 p.m., without having agreed to a verdict. They were locked up till 5 p.m. Dunn will be tried on Monday. 8-50 p.m. The jury, not being able to agree, were looked up all night, and the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. The trial of Louis Bertrand for the murder of Mr Kinder ended on the 18th ult, in the jury being unable to agree upon their verdict were therefore discharged; but the prisoner was remanded to former custody for a new trial by tbe ChiefJustioe.