LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1148, 3 June 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

* {UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIdN.] Timauu, May 31. Frank Fowler has been committed for trial for a rape on a girl of sixteen at Temnka. For tripping up a constable, and rescuing a drunken man, Edward Phillips was sentenced to forty-eight hours' imprisonment without option of a fine. Phillips excused himself by saying that he had just been discharged from the Hospital, and drink took a BtrOng effect on him. Invercargill, May 31. At the Police Court, Joseph Weavers, the licensee of the Edendale Hotel, was fined £5, the full penalty, and £2 15s costs, for supplying a rabbiter named Reid with drink whilst he was in a state of intoxication, the Magistrate remarking that it was a bad case. Wanganui, May 31. The case against John Telkirk Capstick, for fraudulent proceedings in connection with his bankruptcy, has broken down. The information was dismissed, and four guineas costs were awarded to Capßtick. Auckland, May 31. The Danae corvette has arrived from Samoa and will probably remain here till the end of June, when she proceeds to Wellington to meet tlif Commodore and receive a fresh crew from the Raleigh, During her stay at the Solomon Islands the Danae visited most of the islauds of the group, and discovered a fine unknown harbor. During the last four months the ship has been employed in Sanaoan Islands upholding the claims by King Malisooa. The constant rels amongst rival parties have frequently called for interference, and only a few days before she left an outrage by the people of Lufi Lufi on the royal party necessitated the deasruction of the town. The seamen and marines in the face of an army of 3000 men assembled in the neighbourhood, landed and destroyed the whole settlement. Four houses, with a bakehouse and stable, iu the Kyber Pass road, were entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The buildings, which belonged to Mrs Outhwaites, were insured in the New Zealand Company for £250. One of the tenants was insured in the Colonial for .£SOO. A requisition has been sent to the Mayor asking him to call a meeting to protest against the property tax. Two men, named Kingsley and Lounaiid, who have been under the surveillance of the police, induced Major Westrupp to play chicken hazard at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, on Saturday night. They won £6B. \Vestiupp gave a cheque, but afterwards stopped the same, and communicated with the police. Gallagher, the landlord of the hotel, was summoned for permitting gambling, and fined £lO. Ten more boys have absconded from the Naval Training School. June 1. At a meeting of the Harbor Board, the engineer reported the damage to the wharf by the City of Sydney at £2BO. Captain Dearborn accounts for the accideut through the steamer not having sufficient water. The temperance people opposed the new public houses at the Licensing Court to-day, and succeed in defeating several applications. Wellington, June 1. Stephen Stockbridge who was killed to-day by falling off a dray, was 35 years of age and in the employ of Mr Fitchet, to whose farm lie Was taking a load of grain. June 2. At the inquest this afternoon on the body of Stephen Stockbridge, who was killed yesterday, a verdict of accidental death was returned. At a meeting of persons interested in the boot trade, it was resolved, "That this meeting is of opinion that (he time has arrived for New Zealand to protect her industries, the boot and shoe trade being one, and that it is the imperative duty of every member of the trade to endeavor to obtain such a tariff as will place them on a pai* with their foreign competitors.'' A deputation appointed by the meeting waited on the Royal Commissioners for Local Industries, and set forth their views. The Commission assured them that the question should receive ample consideration. Dunedin, June 1. At the Chamber of Commerce today, in reference to the Property Tax, Mr R. Wilson moved—" That the Chamber is of opinion that, granting the necessity of a Property Tax in the present condition of the Colonial finance, it is greatly to be desired that it should be made to bear equally on every class of the community, and be rendered as little vexatious a possible in its modi s of colb'cH™. ;m 1 :!,m, :.-. this cud —lst-;. Inu ucuu,,.w.. u J..:

be reduced to .£250 of value in monev or in moveable property. 2nd; That; all personal.clothing, trunks, and forking men's tools of trade should L/o specially exempted. 3id. That each person should l»'e required to mnks only one return to tlie Cluvertment |b cover all his property wttftirl tho Colony." The Chamber, by u large resolved—"That in view of the necessity for increased taxation, as well as reduced expenditure, that the tea and sugar should be increased tb original amount; that a tax of 6d per gallon be levied on Colonial beerj that education fees be recommenced) and that all subsidies to local bodies should cease as from the end of the current financial year; aud further, that the Property Tax be repealed." juh.6 2. The_ body of Richard Powell, who was missed from Waituhuna some davs back, has been found in the Waituhuna river. A WOMAK KILLED BY itER HUSBAND. Duxedin, May 31. Circumstances in connection with a woman named Lockhart, living off Walker street, af'e of such a suspicious character as to lead the police to take charge of the house in which she died. From a statement of a neighbour it appears that on Thursday night Lockhart and his wife had a quarrel. Lockhart struck her, but how, or with what, has not yet transpired. The only other occupant of the house was the youngest son, a lad of about eleven years old. He refuses to give any account of what took place, the only statement that can be got at from him .being that his mother fell just outride the door, and there hurt herself, the eldest son twenty years old, states that.. on Thursday night he was living in .town. He had left his fathers' home some time before. In the evening he heard that something had happened to his m.other, and that she was badly hurt. He went home to see what was the rnajtfeir, and found her: lying on the floor unable, to speak, He watched her until early on Friday morning, when finding that she got no better, he went for Dv Brown. She died without returning to consciousness on Saturday afternoon. Three doctors made a post mortem They stated that death had resulted from violence. An inquest was held during the afternoon, and the evidence showed that the hnsband was in tho 1 habit of ill-treating her. The jury turned a verdict of manslaughter against the husband, Charles Lockharfcj who was committed for trial.