TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4538, 6 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS .

(per press agency.) Auckland, Tuesday.

Lockhart Glass, a seaman, and late overseer of MoEvoy's plantation in Fiji, recently arrived from Levuka, has committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear, at Moyle’s Hotel, where he has been living since arrival. A depressed state of mind from illhealth is the supposed cause. About £l5O were found iu his possession. He intended proceeding home to his friends iu Glasgow. The justices dismissed the charge of assault with intent against William Kirby. At the Supremo Court, Michael Kelly, for perjury, was sentenced to three years. Two natives, charged with a violent assault and robbery at Poverty Bay, were sentenced to three months and a week respectively. Another native of the same place, charged with forcible entry, was acquitted. The insurances on the ship Strathmore, supposed to have been lost between London and Dunedin, are New Zealand, £10,000; National, £4BOO ; South British, £2400. Christchurch, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court to-day George Graham Eyes, formerly clerk in the Christchurch Postoffice, pleaded guilty to stealing letters, and was sentenced to six years. Helen Anderson, for larceny, got twelve months. Erank Welstead and Mary Welstead, on a charge of larceny, were found not guilty. Castaway is reported to have gone wrong in training. Dunedin, Tuesday. An inquest on the body of Cyrus Haley will be held to-morrow. The sentences at the Supreme Court ai-e : Anne Hardie, for stealing, (fifty-one previous convictions,) three years; Caldwell, for embezzlement, three years ; White, for stealing, three years ; Goodall, for stealing from a hotel, twelve months, with hal’d labor ; Golding, for stealing, twelve months; and Hutchinson alias German Charlie, a desperate criminal of Coast notoriety, on a charge of burglary, was found guilty of simple larceny only, and sentence was deferred. Richard Beattie, for assault with intent, was found not guilty. At the annual walking show of entires today the exhibits were superior to those of last year; nearly all the horses were bought in at large’figures. Dodson’s imported Cassivallanus carried off the palm, his appearance being magnificent.