INTERPROVINCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 87, 12 April 1875, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

Bluff, Sunday. The Tararua, with the English mail, left Melbourne at 7 p.m. on tie 6th, and arrived at tho Bluff <-t 9 o'clock to-night. She will sail for Dunedin at 4 p.m. on Monday. Wellington, Monday. A large sale of ciy property has taken place, Mr Joim Plu'iirner having disposed of his Waterloo Buil ings block, with its exten- '■'• sive frontages to Lambton Quay, HunterBtreet, and Custom House Quiy, (including . the old Noah's Ark aud whurfage right), fbr .the sum of .£12,500. The purchaser is Mr Jm ob Joseph. The Wairarapa Belvedere saw-mill property, containi- g some 1160 acres, has been sold by auction, ■ nd re dised nearly £5 anacre. •-., Ten to? bof s* gar were sold on Saturday at £34 ids to £35 10'. Two tons of Mauritius realised £42 to £43; tea, in boxes, ex Lunan, -- "i 20b to 22b ; Brandons'* spem candles, lOd. The steame** Ino has commenced loading grain for Taranaki. Auckland, Saturday. An inquest was held to-day on the body of tho infant of a laborer named Barton. His wife, the mother of the child, . has . been mentally afflicted for thc last twelve yeirs, and on Thursday in a state of restlessness she turned her sister-in-law out of doors, u-ing s*range menaces and threats. A short time after, within the space of an hour. Bart n's little girl, who had betn playing with other child' en, came in doors, and found her mi ther in bed wi h a newlv born dead baby on the floor. The inquest was adjourned till the mother is able to attend. The shoemakers have formed a Trade Society. A Make'u telegram states that the d^pirture of Sir D. M'Lean last night wis celebrated with almost vice-regal magnificence. H>* was accompanied to the b ach by nearly fiOO people, and on the Luna reaching the Heads of the Katuna Kiver, she was saluted wi h six 30-poun guns from the s ore. On Sir Donald rea hing the ve-Bs.l Captain Fairchil l illuminated the who e ship, which wms , greete I with deafening cheers from the shore. About 7 p.m. she steamed away. Monday. , V A flre qn Sa'urday niirht in the ship yards of Henderson and Spraggon, and of David Gouk and Armstrong Custom Houce-stre. t, destroyed the she e, spars, ship knees, tools, &c. The 188 altogether whs £120<>. The vessels on the sti cks were all saved. The cauße is unknown. There was no insurance. Grahamstown Saturday. The extension of the godfleld was gazetted in Wellington . esterday. It comprises 100,000 acres, all Crown land except two sma i blocks. The p oclamation was ma<ic owing to reprcsen* ations mnde to Dr Pollen tb'OUtih Mi Mackay thit a rich reif bad been found. It appea'B tbat the discoverer has been prospecting for s me time. The Mining Manager trom Graham-town went to inspect the reef before the proclamation wbb issued . and brought away forty pounds of stone and had it crushed here, and it yielded over five ounces of gold. There is ( onsiderable excitement, and a number of pe-sons are leaving for the locality, wbich U about 25 miles from Gr-lamstown, on tim east coast Bide of the dividing range. Greymouth, Monday. Delaney, the we'l-known pedestrian, in a match aj>ain*>t time, accomplished the ten miles in 59 rains 13 sees. The ground wes very uneven for runt. ing. CHfiiBTCHHRCH, Saturday. The murder ca-^e was completed to-day. The following i'b a digest of the case :— On the day in question tbe murdfred girl, who resided at I'ampier's Bay with her parent*., came iito Lytte ton to pet a ticket at th Coonista' Hull for the school ph-nii. Shortly after five in ihe evening the prisoner was eeen with the girl by two persons standiog at the Albion Hotel. He then spoke to a person > ' standing there, leaving the girl to go on by '• herself. He was afterwards seen to overtake the girl, and to proceed with her towards Oxford-street. The prisoner was next Eeen *

jS! I F*" ; "J i ?-* ! •'" .'V-^ oommgj frdm^lße gdii&ytipAge. where the ■ b',dy, w--tß»Jferward£ fo-hndlwith nnrks of blood on ihim,and the yasj seen brushing his clothes yappare/itl-f to/get H<i H of some dust. Thene^t 'traceffound of hjm\y a* just before the starfcv ingot the train for' vl €hrist,church, when he was noticed tn hnve blood on him, and alio in th*.i train, where th'se In thei eaniifie remarket about his getting in in that state, when he raid he ba*i betn hi ling a ehetp 'this was nbout six pm., and atur the train had g->ne the body ot tbe, murdered g'rl wiis found in the gorse hedge in the locality townrds which he and the girl were s°rn goitg. Tie blood on the prise-net's c'othes whs microsc pically exntnined. and founu to be tbe bl* od of s»me bnimal which suckled its young, but cou d not 1 e swt rn to as human bl* od A'ter his arrest a num'er of spots were found on his I*, gs, and, on being questioned, he said they w«re only pimp'e?, and that no gorsa prickles could be found on him, but upon medical examination being made, a number of gorse prickles were found where the skin was milked. The prisoner, when arrested, denitd having a knife on the day of the murder, but two witnesses &•« ore to having seen a pocket knife in his possession tbat day, and identified the knife found in lhe coal tub on the vessel where he was arrested as the knife they saw. The Crown Prosecutor made an able address to the jury. Mr Joynt, tho prisoner's counsel, in addresning the jury, argued that the girl se< n in the prisoner's company just before the murder wa9 committed was not satisfactorily identified as the deceased girl; that the identify ation of the prisoner as the man seen coining from the Kcene of the murder Boon after the time it must hnve heen committed was not sufficiently clear to justify the jury in taking away his life; that tho. knife was not perfei tly idfutfied, nnd that there was a discrepancy in the evidence as to the prisoner's clothe?; that he himself was not proved to have been thoroughly recognised as the man who caraei rom the paddock where the girl was afterwards found. JHis Honor having summed up, the jury retired for twelve minut<s, and, on returning io Court, announced a v<rdiet of " Guilty " His Honor assumed the black cap, snd passed sentence of diath, and the prisoner was then removed. Monday. At a meeting of the promoters of Funeral Reform, the Sub rommittte male the following ncomrnendations : — l. That an association be formed to te called the Christchurch Funeral Reform .Association. 2. That all persons may become members by payment of an annual subscription of 2s 6d, and by signing a declaration to the undermentioned erlect : — That iii all funerals over which they may bave control they will adopt a plain and inexpensive style of coffia; will discontinue the employment of mutts, the use of palls, mourning coaches, scarves, hatbands, and the providing of gloves ; that hearses, if erapoyed, Bhall not cany plumes, and that the horses shall bear neither plumes, c-oths, mr trappings of any kind. 8. That a furiher declaration he Bigned by those who may desire to do so to the fcl'owing effect : — That they will discontinue, and encourage the discontinuance by others, of unnecessarily expensive mourning. 4. That a commi tee be formed for the purpose cf collecting information on the subject of funeral and mourning, reform, watching the progress of the movement in othtr places, and conferring with undertakers and the like, and tbat, they be requested to report to a general meeting of the members of the A ssociation A long discussion , ensued as to the insertion of a declaration to entirely discontinue the wearlng.of mourning, \\\\t the matti-r was. ultimately aijourqed uptil.it was known what was the « pinion of the Rommittte of Ladies which has bten formed to consider the question. The meeting' then adjourned till April 301