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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1017, 15 May 1871, Page 2

At tlie Middlesex sessions, on Monday, March 10, William Stoboe, aged fifteen, was indicted for stealing a chain and a locket, the property ot Fennetta Vousden. On the 17th of February the prosecutrix and another young lady were walking near Arbour-square, Stepney, and the prisoner rushed up to the prosecutrix, snatched at a locket hanging to a chain round her neck, and, the chain breaking, he got possession of both, with which he started off, but was followed and taken into custody. Mr Moody addressed the jury for the prisoner, and contended this was only a bit of rough play, and that there was no criminal' intention in taking the locket and chain !—The jury consulted for a few minutes and then returned a verdict of not guilty.—The Judge : Well, gentlemen, that is a most extra ordinary verdict; and after this perhaps some of your daughters may have their lockets snatched away, and you will be tpld it was all done in fun. (To the prisoner :) You are discharged.

Richard Haskins, charged with embezzling a large sum of money, the property of the National Provincial Bank of England, was examined before the Norwich Magistrates. The amount of the embezzlement was eighteen hundred and ninety-three pounds. The prisoner, when charged with the embezzlement, bust into tearc and said it was too tine, The prisoner was engaged to be married to a young lady with a fortune of twelve thousand pounds, and he was on a visit to her family, when the discovery ot his conduct was made. A great mass of papers bearing on racing transactions have been found at the prisoners lodgings, and his betting operations seem to have extended to a large amount. He is a young man of highly respectable family connections. Pie was remanded,

A five, attended with fatal results to at least three persons, and serious, if not raoital, injuries to several othei's, took place at an early hour on Sunday morning, March 5, in a house occupied by Mr W. Halley, a greengrocer, in Chapel street, Edgware-road, London. When the police constable on duty first discovered that the house was on fire, he endeavored to alarm the inhabitants, at the same time sending off for the fire-escape and engines. In the house were Mr and Mrs Halley, their family, two friends, and the servant maid, all of whom were fast asleep. In the course of a tew minutes a fire-escape arrived on the spot, and it was then ascertained that the shop, parlor, and the staircase, and the back room on the first floor, were jn a blaze, all means of escape being thus cut off, save by means of the machine. Several persons were • hen seen at the windows, one being Mrs Halley, wilh a baby in her arms. A blanket having been procured by some of the neighbors, they "stretched it out, and called to the mother to drop, the infant into it. She dropped the. child, but the poor thing fell beyond the blanket upon the pavement, and was killed instantaneously. Mis Halley and her husband were then brought* safely down by Mitchell, the fire-escape man; but whilst the latter was thus, cnjmtred two of their sons, one aged fifteen and the other nineteen,, both jumped in their terror from a secondMoor window. Richard, the younger of the two, was killed at once by the fail, and life brother sustained most? serious injuries, and was removed directly to St. Mary's Hospital A little boy named Alfred Halley g who was dropped from another window, was also taken to the hospital very badly hurt. The firemen failed in subduing the flames until the building was almost entirely destroyed. It was reported that the servant, a giri of eighteen, named Catherine. Shirley, was missingy and they at once instituted a search for her,. On gaining the second floor they found the, poor creature lying on the remains of her. bed, burned in a frjghfuj manner. Whether she had been dressed or not could not be ascertained, as all her clothes had been burnt The bodies of the three victims to the awful disaster were conveyed in shells to the deadhouse, to await inquests. The terms asked for Chinese labor in, Fiji are said, to, be so large as to put its, employment in the group out of thequestion..

A correspondent of the Wellington, Independent writes thus on the subject of kitchen refuse : A great nuisance arises in most towns from soap«uds fc greens water, and debris from houses and kitchens until it cau he earned away, Rut T would ask, suppose you, get a man to first dig up 10 feet square of the ground in the rear of your pre > mises (and every shop, has got that much) say a spade in depth, and pour all yonr suds, greens water, <fec, on the trip of that broken surface, where will be the nuisance if that; same sur|ace be turned up every morning, or even once a week ? You will probably say, Who, will do that? I will answer—The health of the town demands a bye-law to compel its being done, and it should; be the duty of the Inspector of Nuisances to take his rounds regularly at every houfte once a week, so regularly that he will be expected a certain hour at a certain place, or get the sack. Any person doubting the efficacy of the above plan has only to try it to be convinced; but he must bear in mind that the surface, of the ground must be frequently broken to make it thoroughly absorbent. Of course if one likes to change the patch every six months by making the first a garden, and vice vei'sa, so much the better.

The fbip Mistress of the Seas has been burned in the Indian Ocean, and 17 persons drowned.

A manufacturer in Hamburg- was lately giving his paitner, then residing in London, some mfonnation concerning the progress of their busings. As lie was sealing his letter, the news of the taking of Orleans arrived; he hastened to add a postoript in these words (alluding to the evacuation of the city by the French, " All out of Orleans." The recipient of the letter instantly telegraphed back "-Seven bales of Orleans are on the way."