TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 112, 16 April 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, APRIL 14. At the Supreme Court to-day, Lily Garland, for having assaulted George Oram, was sentenced to two years hard labor. Robert Williamson, Francis Malmache, Frederick Pragnall, and James Kelso, charged with assisting her were acquitted. Richard Hawker, charged with arson, was acquitted. Christchurch South and Ellesmere districts hare pronounced against any iucrease m publichouse licenses. Blenheim, April 14. A section m Market Place, Blenheim, has changed hands at £50 per foot, the largest price yet realised here. Four year* ago th*» same section was bought for £8 per foot. Auckland, April 14. The Premier left to-day for the Waikaio. At the inquest at the Lunatic Asylum on the body of Joseph Thompson, war dor, who was killed by the patient Charles Trewheeler yesterday, the jury returned a verdict that deceased was killed by Trewheeler, who was not responsible for his actions ; also, that no blame was attachable to the attendants of the Asylum, The deceased has a sister, Mrs Singleton, resident at Chrisichurch. Dunedin, April 14. At the Police Court to-day the charges against a batch of prisoners for insubordination and making untrue com* plaints against the ward? rs on the works at the Mends were gone into. One, who had made a false complaint that a warder had gone to Bleep on duty, had forty marks forfeited, and Stewart McComb, who had falsely charged three warders with ill-treating him so as to render him insensible, got a week on bread and water. The charges against seventeen otherß were remanded till to-morrow. In the Supreme Court Andrew Purves claims £500 damages from David Crawford for libel. The plaintiff has been master of the State school at StrathTsieri, of which defendant was chairman. The plaintiff wag' dismissed under clause 47, for misconduct, without an explanation. The plaintiff wrote a letter to a witness, attacking the Committee generally, and the defendant m paticular, To this the defendant repUrd. making the allegations which form the subject of the alleged libel. At the Supreme Court to-day a verdict was given for defendant m the libel action Purves v. Crawford. Professor Brown gave a lecture last nigth on technical education, under the auspices of the New Zealand Manufac turer's Association. An interesting discussion, m which school teachers and others took part, followed. At the City Court, Mr Carew, R.M., held that a photographer's premises came under the operation of the Factories Act, and inflicted a nominal penalty for breaches of that Act. Mastkrtox, April 14. The Wairarapa East County Council to-day passed a resolution agreeing to join the Hawke.B Bay Council m testing the legality of the Government altering valuation on Native lands for rating purposes.