LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1718, 1 April 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, March 30. Five long-sentence prisouers have been sent to Lyttelton from Napier gaol, which is overcrowded. A child fell into a reservoir on his father's ground yesterday, and would have been drowned but for the singular fact that he was seen by the passengers on a passenger train. The manager of the line jumped off the car and into the water, otherwise the child would have been drowned. A man named Pratt was convicted of systematic communication with prisoners in Lyttelton gaol and fined £lO or a month. The evidence showed that he got money out of the prisoners, or promises of money, and then in some instances swindled them after all. The hard work has told on Mrs Harapson so much that she cannot go on with her mission until she has a rest. March 31. An application was made at the Supreme Court to-d&y for an order directing the Trustee in Bankruptcy to prosecute John Cother, for bankruptcy. He was a draper, carrying on trade at Cashel House, and failed lately, his liabilities being some .£4OOO or .£6OOO, and his assets less than £IOO. A gardener at Rangiora, named Thomes, killed himself by drinking half-a-pint of the solution used in galvanic batteries. He had been suffering from sciatica, for which he was using the battery, and it is supposed he drank the stuff by mistake. Johh Gilpin was committed for trial to-day for assaulting the man Clements who wan so brutally knocked about one night a few weeksago. From Clements' evidence the case seemed to be one of pure wanton assault. He was walking along when four men passed him, and one called out, " I want you." Thinking he wanted a match or something of that sort, Clements tnrned back and received a heavy blow in the face. Several of the others also fell upon him, and the result was that he has been under the doctor's h*nds ever since, some five weeks. Prisoner made a statement that in the lock-up another man told him the latter's brother had inflicted the worst injuries. Auckland, March 31. Thomas William Bolton was committed for trial on three charges of forgery. Mrs Kirby, dressmaker, Whangarei, was found dead in bed.