CANTERBURY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 560, 16 March 1868, Page 3

CANTERBURY.

By Ihe arrival of the schooner E, and U. Cameron, from Lyttelton, on Friday, we have dates to the 7th of March, for which we have to thank Capt. Cameron. Below will be found a few extracts. Commercial tflhgeuce win he found in its proper place : TRIAL TOR MURDER. —SENTENCE OF DEATH The trial of John Denslev Svvafe for the murder of John Rankin concluded on the Gth inst., and resulted in a verdict of Guilty. ■’ Sentence of death was passed by. His Honor Mr Justice Gtreason in the j following terms:— | “oo.’iu Haasiey Swale, or otherwise John j is wale Density, you have been found guilty lof tlie crime of wilful murder. You have ! had a patient trial by an intelligent jury, and have been ably defended by your coun #el. Notwithstanding this, you have been convicted. Under these circumstances, it only remains for me to perform whit is a most painful duty-to pass sentence of death i upon a fellow-creature. 1 have ho reason; to hold out to you any hopes of a remis j sion cr commutation of your sentence. II can only therefore enjoin you to employ the! spare time yet left to you in this life.in! making a reconciliation with your Maker! whom you have so highly offended by this: grievous crime. The law of the land' is ini this respect more merciful to you than you were to your victim. You have sent a person with whom you had daily intercourse, who, in fact, was your partner in business, into the presence of his Maker without a moment’s warning or preparation. The law is not so unmerciful to you, as it gives you time to prepare for the other world. I trust it is not necessary to point out to you that (hero is a merciful Mediator between you and your offended God. Short as the time is, you may yet make your peace. 1 implore you to employ the short time allowed you in this world in doing thL, ami effecting a reeoncilliatiou with your God.” His Honor then put on the black cap and passed sentence of death in the usual j form. The prisoner, who evinced uu greatly increased signs of trepidation, although he looked somewhat restless, was then removed. A M4N STABBED. Captain Cameron, ot the E. and U. Cameron, has mentioned to us a circumstance which is not reported in the papers to hand. It is to the effect that on the night of Friday, the fith inst., a man in Christchurch, who had been cohabiting with a female, on arriving at his bouse, found a man there, whose presence caused a row and a scuffle, which ui fortunately resulted in one of the men being stabbed. The wounded man was conveyed to the Provincial Hospital, where, on Saturday morning, he breathed his last. Jealousy, it issaid, was the cause of (his unfortunate affair. This is in effect what we have heard from Capt. Cameron, who, however, was unable to furnish any particulars as to the names of the parlies concerned, &c. DETAETURE OF LOUD LYTTELTON AND MR SELFS. The Lyttelton Times, March 7, contains the following Lord Lyttelton, the hon G-. Lyttelton, and Mr Selfo left Christ church yesterday, en route for Wellington, whence they will go to England via Panama. On arriving at Lyttelton they were waited on i by the members of the Municipal Council, i who handed to Lord Lyttelton an illumin- : ated copy of an address recently presented 1 to him. Lord Lyttelton thanked the Mu : nicipal Council, and passed a very high culogium on the skill displayed in illumi- ( nating the address. Mr 11. H. Glover, < lithographer to Messrs Ward and Reeves, . was entrusted with the work. The address : is engrossed and iiiumiuated on vcl- i lum, and is written in the centre iu church ■ text. All the principal words and capitals i are in monumental characters, highly orna- i mented and iiiumiuated. Surrounding the i address is a bordttre, colored with neutral i tints only, and relieved with gold. The following devices and seals are introduced : the seals of the Colony, of Canterbury, |1 and Lyttelton ,- the crests of Lord Lyttel-| i ton and Mr Selfa. The outer edge of the: t bordea is characteristically filled in. Air 11. H. Glover has received the following letter from the Clerk to the 1 yiielton Municipal Council: —‘l am specially instruct- , ed by the Chairman of the Lyttelton Ala- ; nicipal Council to convey the (hanks oifi himself and the Council generally to you 1 for the admirable manner iu which youl| have carried out their wishes in engrossing !j and illuminating the address for presenta- , tion to Lord Lyttelton and Air Selfe ; and , at the same time to inform you that your 1 work has elicited unqualified admiration . from all who have seen it.’ ”