LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 944, 9 October 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.]

Wellington, October 9,

There is no longer any doubt of Sif' George Grey having reigned the lead-' ership of his party," and should they again obtain power, he will not hold a portfolio, though exercising, his personal influence.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BX/NEDIN, October 7.

At the Criminal Sessions to-day, before Judge Williams, Matthew William 1 Hawkins, who yesterday pleaded guilty to two'indictments charging him with! embezzlement, was brotfgbt «p for sentence. The prisoner had nothing tosay why sentence should not be passed' upon him. There were two indictments, and prisoner was sentenced to 1 six years' penal servitude on each, the 1 sentences to run concurrently. Alexander Rocard charged wit Ji cattle stealing, was acquitted. The Grand Jury returned a true bill in the case of James Smith, charged with the murder' of his wife. Thoma's Cha'lrfterS Heidi was charged upon an indictment, containing six counts with having fraudulently applied certain moneys, amounting, to £1446 7s 6tJ, the property of the Coioriial Building and Investment Society, to his own nso or to the use of his brother, J. C, Reid. The several counts were' placed in the indictmtnfi so as to charge him separately with dealing with the funds as alleged, either as a director or a shareholder, and with appropriating the money .unlawfully to his- own use or to the use of some' other persons other than for the purposes of the comparfy. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The' casewas not concluded- wheu the Coutfc rose. m * October 8: In the Suprme Covtffc to-day, in the case of Thomas Charles Reid, charged with embezzlement, the jiu'ry after °an absence of about an hour and twenty minutes, returned to Court with the following verdict :—On the first, second, and fifth counts, they found*

the prisoner guilty ; and not guilty on the third, fourth, and sixth. In other words that ;w a director and member of the Colonial Building and Investment Society, of the fraudulent appropriation bf £144-6 to his own use; and not guilty of fraudulently ;tppropiiatin.; the same moneys to the use of J. Chalmers lteid. Thomas Chalmers Beid Was then 'indicted in ten separate' counts with having, as director ami manager of the Colonial Bui'ding Society, received from Alexander Adamson, on behalf of tlie. Soc ; eiy, tlr--suin of .£2O, and fraudulently appropriating the same, and having failed to lhake or cau-e to be made, an entry of the receipt of the same. Tlih prisoner pleaded not guilty. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the counts charging him as director and memlier with having, fraudulently appropriated the sum of £2O. The prisoner was then indicted for fraudulently appropriating the sum of .£loo,' dlegod by him to have heen drawn by his In-other. Verdicts of guilty were ioturni-d in this and two similar cases. The prisoner was remanded for sentence, pending an argument on law points raised. CinusTciiurx'H, October 8. Jiifdrrrtatioii has been received in town that ayoii'g man named John Wm Meimnony, 18 years of age, was killed between 5 and 6 o'clock, p.m. yesterday, on Mr Wright's farm at Springfield. The deceased was working a Chesterfield roller, and was st-uck heavily on the left temple bv a portion bf the Works, the rolier also going overdraft of his face, lie was killed instantaneously: Ciiaklkstox, October 7. A miner .named Joseph Bray, going home last night; fell into a tail race and •was sttinned. The water c .ming on this ftjormtig caused suffocation. .... - Bl'Snheim, October 7. ~ A man named Thomas Forrest, who left Havelock for the digging last Friday, was found drowned vesterday in Fliio Creek;