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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1878, Page 2

The PresK says it is reported that Sir Hercules Hobinson has written to the Governor, saying that he would have dismissed Ministers on the late breach of privilege occision. A sensation was caused at the local police office on Tuesday (gays the Mururunah Timet by the trial of a person who represented himself to be the Kev. Michael Cregan, a priest of the Koman Catholic Church. Under various pretentions in connection with his sacerdotal character he has succeeded in obtaining sums of money at various places, we understand, along the northern road, calling at all the principal towns, bu-. devoting the proceeds to the one object apparently of his life, that of procuring intoxicating lipuor. If appearance could be relied upon, the statement of the unfortunate to the effect tbat he had only been silenced in Ireland for his intemperate habits, is very nearly the correct explanation of his appearance in this predicament. When before the beach the prisoner presented a sorry spectacle, dressed as he was in priestly garb without any appearance of pretence, yet evideutly a slave to the degrading vice of dtunkenness. Whatever be his history, the case was such as to excite commiseration at his misfortune, as much as disgust at the crime which in his extremity he was ledto commit. In pursuance of the order of the bench the prisoner was removed to Maitland on the following day to undergo two months' imprisonment with hard labor. Before his removal, however,' care had been token to divest him of bis professional garb, and to make his appearance as secular as his practices. Dressed iu a superior suit of private clothes, it was difficult to identify the decent-looking prisoner with the confessedly degraded and forsaken presbyter.