LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2125, 21 June 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

KUMARA PROSPECTING ASSOCIATION SUBSIDY. SLUDGE-CHANNEL, AND ROAD TO THE BEACH. THE LYELL MURDER TRIAL. DAVIDSON SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE FOR LIFE. [special to kumara times.] Wellington, June 21, 1.22 p.m. Government will subsidise the Kumara Prospecting Association to the extent of £225, provided the Association find £IOO and purchase a Tiffen borer. Messrs Seddon and Fitz Gerald waited on the Government re increasing Kumara sludge-channel carrying capacity, and completing the road to the Beach. Serious attention to these and other works were promised. The Address in Reply is finished. The Government is perfectly safe. Nelson, June 21. The Judge summed up very strongly indeed against Davidson. The jury retired at midnight, and, after forty minutes, found a verdict of “ Manslaughter.” The prisoner, on being asked why sentence should not be passed, said he had been convicted on the evidence of a perjured prostitute, and two perjured policemen. The Judge rebuked him very severely, and said he had bad a most patient and fair trial, and the jury had found a very lenient verdict, for they would have been fully justified in finding wilful murder. The case was a most aggravated one, and the sentence would be the heaviest permissible by law, namely, penal servitude for life. [united press association.] Christchurch, June 20. The dead body of a middle aged woman was found in the river Ashley, near Rangiora, yesterday evening. From the appearance of the body it had evidently been in the water three or four weeks, and has not yet been identified. The affair is a mysterious one, as no one was reported missing in the district. Two men named Burrell and King had a fight at Flaxton yesterday. Burrell knocked King down and then kicked him on the head and chest, breaking several ribs and inflicting serious internal injuries. Burrell was arrested. King is in the hospital. Dunedin, June 20. George Player,'a steerage passenger by the s.s. Wanaka, while under the influence of drink, jumped overboard from the ship last night. The steamer stopped and a boat searched for the man half-an-hour, but without avail. The inquiry into the goods’ shed fire is concluded. The jury found there was no evidence to show how the fire

occurred. The only thing which came out in any way to account for the fire was that somebody over an hour before the flames broke out saw flickering as from dying fire in the office. The jnry added a rider referring to the advisability of such erections being built with several brick partitions having dead lights so that watchmen. might see inside and other points. The cause of the outbreak is as great a mystery as ever. The Insurance Companies \vill loose £15,000,