TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1266, 28 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. . . ... .. . April 27. : The Government have received advices from London? that L 1,100,000 of the five million loan has been converted into four per cent. Inscribed Stock under the Con- ' solidated Stock Act, 1877. CHRISTCHURCH. I . April 27. | At the R.M. Court to-day, J. W. Crab- • tree was sentenced to a months' hard • labor for revolting cruelty to a mare. The animal was left to linger with a broken leg, which rotted away by degrees. She was seen eating wood and gnawing boards from the house. A veterinary surgeon ordered it to be destroyed, but no notice was taken. An . attempt was made to defend the case by stating that the horse was part of a bankrupt estate, and did not belong to defendant, but the trustee | swore that Crabtree had sent another horse in its plaoe to the sale, and the trustee had nothing to do with it. The prisoner, it turned out, had been convicted in January last on a similar charge, and the Magistrate, in passing sentence, spoke very strongly of the revolting inhumanity of the prisoner. . NAPIER, April 27. Shaw, clerk and rate collector to the Corporation, was this morning brought up and rethanded on a charge of setting fire to the Corporation offices yesterday morning. Further particulars relative to. the fire are as follow : One of the windows in the large room was seen to be partly open, and JSergeant Mahon called attention to this, whereupon Shaw replied, "That is curious, as there has been no one here since Saturday."' To-day (Tuesday) was appointed for the annual audit of the Borough accounts. On Saturday this was referred to by Qapt, Bower, in presence of all- the clerks. He had apparently some suspicion that everything was not quite right, as he said, " We will go into the accounts on Monday, and if they keep us all night we must go through them before the auditors come." - The office was then closed, and the boy. declared that all the doors were locked, and the windows fastened at that time. The collector's books were left on the table, as there was no room for them in the safe, but the block of receipts and license forma was on the shelf behind the collector's chair. This was all that could be learned of it in the office. Sergeant Mahon was left in charge, and Major Scully, Sergeant O'Malley, and Detective Grace went to prosecute inquiries outside. It was found that Shaw, accompanied by Mr. Davies, had called at the Mayor's at 6.30 on Sunday evening for the key of the office. He explained this by saying he must go to look for his overcoat, but he subsequently remembered that he had left it at Omahu. He returned the key almost immediately apd went away. About twenty minutes to one o'clock on Monday morning a Government officer returning homewards saw a man, whoih he cannot recognise, enter the grounds of the Provincial Buildings, and immediately afterwards heard a slamming noise as if a door or window had "been shut. April 28. The Murimotu difficulty has been settled. The following letter was received from the chief Haika Te Rongo : " Salutations. This is to let you know that the Murimotu dispute between me and Kemp is settled and dead. I have sent a letter by Renata telling him that there is ho necessity for him and his lawyer (Dr. Bulger) to come up." Kemp has gone back to Wanganui. Dr. Buller returns to Napier to-night. The difficulty appears to have been settled without Buller's assistance in any way. AUCKLAND. • April 27. The Hon. F. Whitaker and the Hon. J. • Bryce proceed to Wellington to-morrow to consult with their Ministerial colleagues as to measures to be introduced during the next session of Parliament. At Waikato the slaughtering of cattle for pleuro-pneumonia is still going on. Mr. Fantham's pure bred shorthorn bull Lord Darlington was killed on suspicion. A post mortem examination shewed that the animal was suffering from tuberculosis. Mr. Speight addressed the electors tonight at the Mechanics' Institute. There was a large attendance, and Captain D. H. M'Kenzie presided. Mr. Speight spoke for two hours and a half, and concluded amidst cheers. Mr. J. C.. Carr moved, and Mr. R. J". Feltoii seoonded, a. vote of thanks and confidence, which was carried unanimously. April 28. Mr. Burns, a member of the Industrial Commission has arrived. Eleven tenders have bepn received for the railway reclamation contract. MountedrOonstable Bullen will go home shortly, haying inherited Considerable property, - . TIMARU. April 28. The case of Grubb v. Bruce, a claim by which the master of the brigantine Nightingale against the owner for LBB for wages advanced to the men as compensation for dismissal, occupied the Magistrate's Court yesterday and tqrday. The evidenpe showed that Grubb was dismissed for disobedience of orders' in supplying the vessel \yith storgs ingtead of allowing thft owner to do so. The amount claimed for dismissal without notice was abandoned, together with another item, and judgment was given, by consent, for the ballance. Henry Gjardner, landlord of the Sportsman's Arms, Saltwater Greek, was prosecuted for supplying beer arid brandy to a drunken man, but the case .broke down. HAWERA. April 28. Mr.; Hursthouse, Engineer* in charge of roads and woaks has returned from explorir|g and cutting a track from Stratford to Qpunake along the foot of Mount Egmont. He describes the country as very level, with rivers running over the surface level and easy to cross. The land is of very rich quality. The constabulary at Oeo will move today ten miles further north. . The road works are now advancing rapidly towards completion apd 311 unnecessary clearing has been put a stop. to. It is reported that the constabulary at Were Kino will also advance to-day a few miles south.