INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 85, 9 April 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPRKBa AOEKCT.] Wellington, Tuesday night. Two doctors staled in their evidence that the skull of the cook of the Loch Fergus was the thinnest they ever saw, and that the blow given would not have been fatal to an ordinary skull. Judge Richmond directed attention to the want of something like training ships or reformatories for young criminals. Mr Henry Auderson of the Chronicle has been fined for an assault. The Magistrate admitted that the assault was committed under great provocation, but said that Mr Anderson did not go the right way to work. Wednesday. Arrived: Wave Queen, from London. Mr A. C. Graham, a cabin passeDger, was washed overboard while walking towards the cuddy. His wife was on board. There are 40 passengers and a general cargo. She reports that the chief mate deliberately jumped overboard on the voyage. He was the Captain's cousin, and being bad tempered was always at variance, iatterly refusing to perform any duty. Off the coast of Tasmania an enormous sea broke over the vessel carrying away Mr A. C. Graham, a cabin passenger, newly married and coming to New Zealand to settle. The poor fellow held on by the log line for several minutes, but as the vessel was going thirteen miles an hour with a dreadful sea running, and expecting every minute to be pooped, nothing could be done to rescue him. William Linklater, the carpenter of the Lorraine, has been lined £5 and costs for illusing a lunatic placed under his care on the way out. In the Supreme Court Peter Newton, for robbing a drunken man in an hotel, was sentenced to six months hard labor. The Judge said the case was not creditable to Wellington inasmuch as the evidence showed that the prosecutor reeled about in the middle of the day from one public house to another in a state of intoxication. It was such a case as one would expect to find only in a digging township.— The lad Bacon, who robbed the Anchor Liro office, was ordered to bo released upon bis father and mother entering into recogniaucea for .£IOO each, for his subsequent appearance at court if ever required. The Judge said though the lad deserved punishment he did not wisli to send him to a . place which could only make him worse than he really is. He thought the public interest would be best served by such a course. G ore ror Robinson proceeed3 to the Bluff in the Hinemoa on Friday the 18th inst., and will make a tour of the Otago provincial district, visiting the Lakes en route, and return by rail to Canterbury. It is expected the trip will occupy three weeks. His Excellency and Lady Robinson family and suite last night attended the Choral Society's concert. Low fever and dysentery are reported as prevalent amongst the Maories in the Manawatu district. The Government have sent to the Education Boards a supply of deposit books first Ledgers and Journals for distribution free of charge amongst approved Penny Banks ; subsequent ledgers and journals will be supplied at cost price. At a meeting of the Sydney Exhibition Commissioners the chairman stated that the Government promised a sum of .£2,000. The committee agreed to allow £50 to Captain Thompson, of the Bluff, to enable him to exhibit a number of inventions, such as wind and tide gauges, anchors, boat lowering apparatus, windmill, etc., The following sums have been voted by the Sydney Exhibition Committee :— £2oo for purchase of specimens of gold and quartz; £200 for maps, showing railways, roads, bush, and open country; £150 for freight to Sydney, the Union Company carrying the goods from Wellington free of charge; £20 voted to Mr Hackett of Nelson for mineral exhibits. It was resolved to ask an estimate for a pillar of coal 26 feet high from Greymouth to be set up in the New Zealand court at the exhibition. The total cost in connection with the Commission is expected to reach £2,5fi0. At the first meeting of the new Law Students Society (Mr Travers, President), the solicitors present promised to aid the members of the Society to obtain the use of the Supreme Court in the evenings. Auckland, Wednesday. In the Supreme Court Fidgett was convicted of burning stacks. The Judge said that the prisoner's whole conduct iudicated that he feared neither God nor man and sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude. The Government intend to prosecute Robert Graham under the Native Land Act for occupying land at Rotorua. Chbistchorch, Wednesday. In the Magistrate's Court Richard and Arthur Tearell were fined £5 each for shooting at ducks io the Domain with an air gun. In the Supreme Court, John Johnston was charged with concealing property after he had filed his schedule. The creditors asked that he might be dealt leniently with, as be was a foreigner, and his character had been good hitherto. His Honor will pass sentence later on. James Bassingthwaite was indicted for concealing a sum of money from the trustee, be being a bankrupt, and also for ) fraudulently omitting to enter iv his state- \ ment. The trustee stated the assets that came to his hands were £250, while the liabilities were £2200. The prisoner stated he had gone to the Dunedin races and lost his pocket book containing £2400. The detec tive stated that when the female searcher searched tht prisoner's wife she had found £812 12s lid on her. The case is now proceeding. ~' —^^ »»»— i»n««i I