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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 99, 9 April 1864, Page 4

The following paragraph is taken from the Telegraph of Saturday la>t. " Our readers will remember that at the last session of the Criminal Court, a person of the name of Cunningham was convicted of sticking up Mr Skinner, the manager of the New Zealand Bank, in the neighborhood of the Dunstan, but the notes and property taken were rot found. We are glad to be able to state that Cunningham has made a confession to the Chief Commissioner of Police as to the place where the money and notes are planted. Should his statement prove to be true, the discovery of the notes will be gratifying for more reasons than one—it will he satisfactory to the jury who considered the evidence (though conflicting) sufficient to warrant a verdict of guilty; to the Judge who sentenced the prisoner to a most severe—though if guilty, yet well merited —punishment; to Mr Skinner and the Bank, who will recover a considerable amount of property ; and lastly, to the public, who will be relieved from the apprehension that the stolen notes are in circulation. We understand that Mr Branigan left this morning at daylight to verify the statements made by Cunningham. We speak with a xli<?ht hesitation about this confession, from the fact that it was made yesterday, and that yesterday was the first of April" We can only hope, for the credit of humanity generally, that the atroeLus idea contained in the concluding sentence may be unfounded. Fancy a Government official made an A pr;l fod by a gaol bird, and that official, Mr St. John Branigan. It is too horrible to contemplate. (We have since learned, from the Dunstan Times, that Commissioner St. John Branigan, after a patient and diligent search, had not found the money.) To-morrow the well-knownracehorse, Shingler, whose antecedents and numerous victories are pretty well known, is to be sold by auction bv Mr P. H. Elliot at Arthur's Point. The cause of sale is the serious illness of the wife of the owner, Mr Gray, who is thus compelled to return to town before the races come off.

A fresh discovery, adding value to our mineral resources, has been made at the Twelve-Mue Creek, on the Lake, and in the immediate neighborhood of the limestone found by Mr Hackett, of a mass or vein of iionstone. A serious case of poisoning occurred yesterday evening, Miss J. MacLeod having taken a dose of laudanum for the purpose of putting an end to her existence. She fortunately for herself, confessed, in time to save her life, what she had done. Dr. Croft was immediately in attendance, and administered promptly the usual remedies in such cases. For some time 1 ecovery was doubtful, but the case gradually yi< lded to the treatment pursued. The cause assigned for the rash act is family affliction and a general depression of spirits. An advertisement in another column notifies that those allotments with frontages to Rees and B( ach streets, and which border upon the Lake, are to be sold next Tuesday at the Camp. All parties having any claims in regard thereto are to make the same known to Mr Warden Beetham, who will superintend the sale. The proceedings, we anticipate, will not be of that lively character peculiar to the last, when Messrs Cutten and Pyke did us the honor to visit us.