SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 882, 12 February 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

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WELLINGTON. Febrnary 11. The three typhoid fever patients at the Hospital have had to be placed with the ordinary patients, so- closely packed is the institution. . , At a meeting of the Kajwarra Nrhool Committee hetcl tast night, Mr. Smyth gave notice that at next meeting he should move that th«? Ulle shontd be read t.n the school for two* hoar* each week." _ Serions apprehensions Are beginning to be entertained for the safety of the barotte Aberdeen, which teft New for Wellington on the 17th September last, and his not been heard of since. She is therefore 14T days o»t. and conae»|nentty nittst be regarded, for the time at any rate, as on the list of " missing vessels.' Tlie Aberdeen brings a targe general cargofor' thb port and Anckland, including 2WO case* of feerMcxw. The local jnsnrance companies have 1 jwbw smadl .«»«» » n the uargw, bat the am&tmt* are trifiing. _ Another daring robbery ocenrred mthc city last niaht. Mr. Murphy, of the City Hotel, Clyde Quay, reported to the police that a eash>r>os,, containing L-t0 in stiver and a Lit) note, was stolen from the till at his hotel last night. _tt is supposed between It o'etock anti midnight. At the Potww Conrt this ntomtng. Antonio Borden was charged on the raformation of Leopold Denttce with stealing I<3 in «ash, and goods to the value of 1A The ease for the prosecution ww»

that the prosecutor was at work on board ! the steamer Kiwi, and had a house in (Wellington in which hia wife and children ! resided. On prosecutor's return he found that his wife had left her home, and was told she had gone with prisoner. Some furniture and a cash-box, containing money, were also missing. Prisoner was apprehended on board the Albion at the Bluff, having taken passage to Melbourne. Prosecutor's wife was on board the same steamer. Prisoner had L6O in hi* possession, together with a pair of earrings, which prosecutor identified as his property, and which prisoner said had been given to him hy Mrs. Dentice. The defence was that the prisoner was en route for Europe, and it was an unfortunate coincidence that prosecutors' wife happened to be on the same steamer. She gave him the carring3 to take care of, as she was very sick. Mr. Mansford said it was a very suspicious case, but there was not sufficient evidence for a jury to convict upon. He then ordered prisoner to be discharged. The police and the public arc alike to be congratulated on the timely .check placed upon the operations of William Brown, «Has Furnace, who was brought up on various charges at the Resident 3lagistrate's Court this morning, and received sentences amounting in the aggregate to 18 months' imprisonment. From the circumstances which transpired in the Court, and from information received by the police, there is very little doubt that prisoner is a criminal of the imnst dangerous class. He is stated by ! the police" to be one of a notorious gang 'with which Sydney is infested, known by jthc name of "The Forty Thieves,' i several members of which arc at present :" doing" various terms of penal servitude. [The prisoner, on being apprehended, i stated that he was a seamen from 2»ow- ! castle, recently discharged from the Kohin ! Hood. The state of his hands, which I were soft and white, at once gave the lie ! to this statement, and subsequent investigations l»y the police revealed the I mans true character. In a bag under the ! prisoners bed were found a set of. care-fully-made skeleton keys, such as would open any ordinary front door, a screwdriver, and other articles such as are usually carried by burglars. From inquiries which they have made, the police have reason to believe that prisoner was acting in concert with a gang, and that the tatter had '"spotted'' several houses in the city and suburbs as likely " cribs" to be •' cracked ;" that they had made arrangements for taking a house for the reception of stolen property, and had also provided for the breaking up of fancy plate which thev mitfht succeed in stealing ; in fact, it would appear that they were only waiting for the races to he over to commence operations in earnest. The prisoner, who is a smooth-faced, close-cropped, bulletheaded man of about three and twenty, possessing the typical physiognomy of a professional thief, appeared to be no stranger to the interior of a police court. He iTosx-examined the witnesses, and iarfdussed the court with a great deal of etfrontervand a certain amount of cunning. The web was too closely woven round him, however, and Furnace will now have abundant leisure to reflect on the vanity of human wishes or any other subject upon which he may be pleased to bring his powerful intellect to bear. The Post this evening expresses approval of the determination of the Government to hang Walsh.

CHRISTCHUBCH. February J 2. A new building society has been started, to be called the CEirwlcluirch, -Sydenham, and Suburban Building Society. L.-wt night the Avonsidc Parsonage was burned down. The furniture was saved. Tito building was insured in the Union Oth'ee for 050. Messrs. Allan, Sjiwtcll, and Jenkins, have been elected as city representatives of the Lyttelton Harbor Board. The Otago team made 77 hi its first itmtnu'A. a«d 74 in its second. The Christchurch team made lt!3 in its first Innings. At a meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, a resolution was passed that the Colonial Secretary be advised to cancel the appointment of the present medical staff of the Hospital, with a view of the Board inviting offers. They are not discontented with the present staff. It is a mere matter of principle. Tho Dtmedin system is pn.ts.-d.