EX-GOVERNOR EYRE DISCHARGED BY THE MAGISTRATES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 21, 10 June 1867, Page 135

EX-GOVERNOR EYRE DISCHARGED BY THE MAGISTRATES.

Ex-Governor Eyre was arrested by warrant and brought before the Magistrates of Market Brayton on the 27th March.

On the 27th, Mr Fitzjames Stephen, with whom was Mr Horne, Payne, again attended for prosecution. Mr Giffard, with whom was Mr Poland, appeared for the defence. Immediately following the entry of the chairman into court, Mr Eyre entered the room, accompanied by Mr Giffard. His apperance was the signal 'for a clapping of hands on the part of one of the gentlemen present; but this attempt at applause was immediately suppressed by the chairman, who said that any one interrupting the court in a similar way, should be immediately expelled. After arranging for the absence from the court of witnesses, Mr Stephen proceeded at great length to open the case for the prosecution. He divided his speech into three parts, treating first of thegeneral facta connected with the. disturbance out of which thecharge of inurder against* Mr Eyre arose; seoondly, of thelaw

ft committal'-yand Ihirdly^of: l tbe-part personally-taken/by* the. l -accused iauthe alleged murder of George , William 'Gonkidb *»•?* a* \h- V

On ! tW morning "bi-v tiie^2sth ; Mr opened the caSd for fenced-an &ble }i and ! »lucid 15 aiddress* to the bench, the-learned - council declined' to -questions.. of daw* bat accepted issue of facts; and'proceeded to deliver*an elaborate .argument upon them in support of the, conduct' of Mr Eyre during his governorship ,of the 7At the close of his . speech, which occupied; nearly seven hours ; in delivery, Mr Giflard {denounced the prosecution v as'the , meanest and most dastardly conspiracy io* prostitute the formsof law that, had ever been heard of in Mstoky. 7 7 The magistrates retired for .consultation, 'and on'their return the chair-

man said they wereunanimously of opinion that the evidence did not raiseVstrong/or probable presumption of guilt; andctiiatupon such evidence a jury would .acquit. This wab re : ceivea with a burst of cheers, which the chairman by the most urgent entreaties' could With difficulty repress. The chairman continued—-It now only remains for us to direct the discharge of Edward John Eyre. Mr Eyre, you are discharged.—-Mr Eyre rose and bowed, but said not a word.— The large crowd outside the court cheered'most lustily on the decision being announced, and so high did feeling go that the church hells rang a merry peal of, congratulation, immediately after the bench broke up. -

Something New.—A journalistic catastrophe recently occurred in connection with the printing' hf ah-edition of: the North British Daily Mail, which we imagine is unparalleled in the annals .of the press. A cat had herself in the large cylinder of the 1 four-feeder Hoe printing machine employed' to throw off, the .first aide .of.the impression.- Before starting a machine of. this description there is ; con* eider able' noise and bustle' in putting oh the “formes” of type, 1 &0., and during the first-few evolutions it is driven very slowly. The- cat, however; remained-quite quiet during these, preliminaries,., and escaped notice until the machine was running at full 'speed, and had thrown off‘some 800 copies of‘the paper;- She then i apparently thohght she had had enough of it,, and, attempted to spring out of the cylinder, but beipg.giddy. after her 200 full-speed revolutions,,fell underneath it, and was crushed to a jelly by the'revolving forms,her head making a larga dint iri one’of.fhe columns, and her fleshy blood, and, bones being so evenly over, the type that it was only jifter a great-deal of washing that printing could be resumed. The above paper remarks as follows on the accident: —So completely triturated was the unfor-tunate-animal that, as one of the hands expresiedit, “ nothing: was left of. her but the skin.”- If her intention in taking up her station in the cylinder was suicide,she* J could • hardly havbchosen a more effectual method of performing the happy despatch: No motive oan, however, be. assigned; for the rash act. We sincerely hope that if other cats think of adopting this plan of escape from the'cares of the world' they will try another newspaper, for we-haive-had .enough of ,them, and the next one, .found , trespassing in , our machine room with any such intent shall be handed over to the sausage maker without mercy: In'thepresenf instance no injury was done our ifor.; the price iof a four-feeder Hoe is, £2soo—but we cannot afford to .risk ii ogain, so that, if cats want to be killed by machinery' they must go eomewhereelse/ ’' - Taeanaki Oili WEiilS.—The Taranaki Herald, May 18, says:—The daily.,yield .of oil from the Alpha Well has remained much the same~duritig the week, the quantityy beiugvat present about right gallons per diem. We believe, however, ‘ this quantity will bealmost certain to increase as aqon; as the. vein is cleared of. all. the matter which must have ' accumulated duririg J the ? tiihe that* the works were- discontinued j'-andit.must be rememhered that this is the smallest of the veins which have been struck;, . We understand, that Messrs Wtbster and 'Hulke have tried' the ’oil as a lubricant for the machinery'used in -their ■team- mill, but it was nofc filtered previous to the experiment, and consequently there, is a sticky substance left on the,machinery This kubstance- 'cah probably be got rid of by "simple ' strainingy/and without the : application of the v xnore Costly process-of distilling./We are told that; an; experiment is alsojabout to be. made.in.town fpr.smelt-, ing tfc e irpnsand by means of the pehroleunb and that’a small furnahce for that purpose is ik 1 course 1 ofi construction. ' ;

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