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Kumara Times, Issue 565, 19 July 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[press agency.] Christchurch, July 18. In the Supreme Court yesterday, Chapman, a woolsorter, sued Sir Cracroft Wilson, for £IOOO damages, for malicious prosecution. Some time ago Wilson laid an information against Chapman for stealing wool, who was committed for trial ; but on it coming before the Supreme Court, he was acquitted, In the present case, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, for £l5O and costs. Equirs Hoff, charged at the Oxford Magistrate’s Court yesterday with murdering his wife on the Bth July, was committed for trial. His demeanour in Court was very quiet, and he showed very little disposition to cross-examine the witnesses. At various points of the evidence he nodded his assent to •the correctness of the testimony, and when his wife was stated to have been kind to him, he gave a negative shake of his head, and smiled in a cynical manner. When the medical evidence was given, in which it was stattd that the wounds which caused death were administered by either a shingling hammer, or tomahawk, he pointed to the head of the latter, from which the handle had been burnt, as the instrument with which the deed was committed. Hoff never seemed fully to realise his position. He reserved his statement of the affair until he is brought before the Supreme Court. Invercargill, July 18, _ The result of the Invercargill election, after a very keen contest, is : Feldwick, a Ministerialist, 230 ; B tin, independent, 219. Ahaura, July 18. James Carroll was committed fur

trial this .afternoon at the Supreme Court sittings of Hokitika for attempted rape on the 25th ult., on Martha Livingstone, a married woman at Nelson Creek. The evidence was most conclusive, and showed brutal conduct on the part of the accusedDunedin, July 18. Produce is quoted a* follows: Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 5d ; barley, 5s 3d to 5s 9d ; oats, 3s 9d to 4s. Mr Bradshaw reports :—Bank of New Zealand, £23 10s ; Colonial Bank, old issue, £2 15s; new issue, 4s premium; National Bank, £4; National Insurance, £1 7s ; Union Insurance, 16s 6d j Mosgiel Factory, £3 10s ; Guthrie and Larnach’s Timber Factory. £2 17s 6d. Wellington, July 18. To-night’s Gazette gives the Customs Revenue at the several ports of New Zealand for the financial year ended June 30, as follows : Auckland £210,042 Thames 8,620 Russell... ... ... 1,076 Mongonui ' 367 Hokianga 1,606 Kaipara ... , ... 311 Tauranga .... ... 1,458 "Poverty Bay 10,792 New Plymouth ... 8,726 Wanganui 23,601 Wellington 185,883 , Napier ... 40,706 Wairau ... 5,279 Picton ... 1,011 Havelock 802 Eaikoura 982 Nelson 35,041 Westport ... ... 13,416 . Greymouth 39,277 Hokitika ... 4 ... 29,619 Lyttelton 223,458 Akaroa 82 Timaru... 18,396 Camara 15,140 Dunedin 356,223 Invercargill ... ... 38,727 Riverton ... ... . 3,724 The revenue for last quarter, was £303,544 ] corresponding quarter for previous year, £303,550.