LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1408, 6 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, April 4. The result of to-day’s proceedings at the Supreme Court was—Daniel Phillips, for illegally pawning, one day’s imprisonment; Maurice Fitzpatrick, larceny, six months’ hard labor; Edward Latgore, larceny in a dwelling, twelve months; George Douglas, larceny, three years’ penal servitude; Edward Wells, larceny, six months; Henry Jackson, damaging a threshing machine, nine months. Gibson will be tried for Kerisone’s murder on Wednesday. April 5. Bishop Redwood sailed for Wellington by the steamer Penguin to-day. In addition to cases already telegraphed Peter Donnelly, for obtaining money on false pretences, was sentenced to six months’ hard labor. The revelations that were expected in the shooting case, Spring v. Beanfield did not come out. Beanfield was undefended, and attempted little or no defence. He put a few questions to the prosecutor about attempting to poison him, and they were met by flat denial. It was stated that the prisoner

had shown no sign of insanity while in gaol, but Superintendent Broham said the supposition was that on the point of his wife’s infidelity, he had been insane from the beginning of his married life. News has been received from the survey party inspecting the West Coast Railway route. O’Connor’s report is confirmatory of Thornton and Browne’s discovery ; the only difference of opinion being that he suggests a deviation by way of Lewis Pass, which would shorten the road several miles, at the expense of a slightly steeper grade. In this the promoters are prepared, if necessary, to acquiesce. Typhoid fever is very prevalent at Kaiapoi. One death from it occurred yesterday. In the Supreme Court, Robert Wyatt, for malicious injury to agricultural machinery, the property of his former employer, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labor; John Beau field, for shooting at John Spring with intent to murder, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. Prisoner, on leaving the dock, remarked that before he had been there a year they would see the downfall of the Crown of England. Wellington, April 5. A cablegram received conveys the intelligence that the overdue City of New York has arrived safely in San Francisco, No particulars as to cause of delay are given. Some Dunedin capitalists intend to thoroughly test the quartz-reef recently discovered at Cross Creek, Wairarapa. A shaft, 25ft. has been sunk, and a 50ft. drive put in. A crushing battery had been sent up and operations will be commenced without delay. Mrs Clark, who met with an accident a few days ago on board the Rotorua, died in the Hospital to-day. Dudgeon, who was reported missing, has turned up at Wanganui. Mar Ton, April 5.. Christina Goodrun and Joseph Sail were charged with child murder. Goodrun is Hall’s daughter. She was brought up today and remanded for eight days. Her father will be brought up at Palmerston on Thursday next. TaUßAnga, April 4. The steamer Piako was driven from her moorings by the storm on Sunday, and anchored off the shore j but during the same night she again broke away and appeared to settle on her anchor, driving a hole in her bottom. At high water the decks are covered with Water. It is understood that she has been handed over to the underwriters. Dunedin, April 4. During March 239 persons arrived at the port of Otago and 344 left. Invercargill, April 5. Between 400 and 500 persons attended Mr Stout’s lecture on the Irish land question. Mayor Johnston presided. Mr Stout revewed the causes leading to the present crisis, expressing the opinion that so far the Land League had been the means of preventing, rather than occasioning, agrarian outrages. Referring to the oppression that had been practised in Ireland, he remarked that if the same had been done in Scotland, the people would have resisted to the bitter end, and would have conquered too. He hoped for better things under the wise legislation of Gladstone and Bright, and pointed out that to Colonists the position of affairs in Ireland conveyed a valuable lesson as to what to avoid in legislation. They had t-a guard against the growth of the landlord class, the existence of which in the Colony was due to the unwisdom of the earliest legislators. The lecturer held that the remedy for Irish unrest was Home Rule, the establishment of a kind of provincial parliament, and reform of the land laws.