LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1393, 19 March 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PiRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, March 18. A man named Longmore made an impudent attempt to steal a cashbox at the Rotherfield Hotel, yesterday afternoon. He snatched it from the landlady and.bolted, but was soon caught, and to-day for his pains was sent up for trial at the Supreme Court. In consequence of the long delay in the arrival of English vessels, there is a tremeudous quantity of grain at Lyttelton. All the sheds are full, and some seven hundred trucks are standing in the yards waiting to be discharged. A respectable looking young woman named Boothe was brought to the Police Court to-day, on six or seven charges of shop-lifting. The story was rather a sad one, as she appeared to have been driven by want to thieving. Her husband held a good position at Home, but is at present away from her and her child. Having fallen ill she was tempted to commit crime. Tho Magistrate appeared to understand the pitiful circumstances of the case, as he sentenced her to a month’s imprisonment only, on all charges. Tiie head attendant Clarke, and attendants Eastham and Lennon, of Sunnvside Asylum, have been awarded gratuities by tho Government for special services under the following circumstances ; —A lunatic had barricaded the door of his cell, broken up the floor, and armed himself with pieces of wood in order to prevent men hunting for him when escaping. It became necessary to secure him at once, and the door was forced open amidst, a shower of wood, saw-dust and atones. The lunatic was not secured, however, till he had bitten and otherwise injured bis captors. The attendants, according to the report, behaved with courage and forbearance. Dunedin, March 18. The Tablet denies the report put in circulation by the Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, that it was to be transferred to and be published at Wellington. It suspects the whole thing to be a canard started with the object of getting up a cry of no popery against the Postmaster-General. Wellington, March 18. The resignation of E. W. Mills, as Just ice of the Peace, lias been accepted. I

NAPIER RACES. Napier, March 18. The races were continued to-day. Produce Stakes—Firefly, 1 3 Primrose, 2 ; Pioneer, 3. Handicap Hurdlesr—Matau, 1 3 Ada, 2 3 Ravenla, 3. OAMARU RACES. Oajiaru, March 18. Handicap Hurdles—Clarence, Little John, and Milo started 3 the former won easily. Selling Hurdles—Johnny, 1 3 Maumui, 2.