WELLINGTON.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 260, 6 October 1877, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

October 3,

Daniel Haggerty, charged with burning down his own accommodation house at Carterton, was tried yesterday at the Supreme Court. They jury was locked up all night, and not agreeing were dismissed tins morning at 10 o’clock, and a new trial fixed for to-morrow.

Notice is given that James McDowell and Joseph Paul, well known drapers here, have tiled a deed of assignment for the benefit of their creditors.

Daniel Cooley, employed as gardener at the Hntt, for Nathaniel Valentine, cut bis throat to-day, nearly severing bis bead from bis body. The Supreme Court was occupied nearly all day over the case against Mary Ann Trueman, for child murder. After a short retirement the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The Judge then sentenced her daughter, Mrs Mndgway, who was found guilty of concealment of birth, to 2 years’ imprisonment with hard labour.

October 5

In the case of Daniel Haggerty, for arson, a second jury was locked up all last night, and discharged this morning, not having agreed. The case will be decided next Monday before a third jury, and another Judge. It has leaked out that on the first jury there wore originally seven for conviction and five for acquittal, and then they changed to eleven lor acquittal and one for conviction. On second jury, eleven new men were for conviction, but the twelfth, who had been on previous jury, stood out for acquittal.

CHRISTCHURCH. October 3

Driver, of Dunedin, now here, has concluded the sale of Rhodes and Leadham’s estate, near Timarn, consisting of 9,350 acres, freehold, 800 pure bred cattle, and 12,000 long wool sheep, for £115,000 to Messrs Fleming and Hedloy, of Oaraaru,

in Geelong, where he made a fortune. Afterwards he went to England and built a tabernacle at his own expense, preaching in it regularly. Then be wont all over England and America. While Moody and Sankoy were in London he was electrifying Boston, United States. Dr Somerville is quite a different stamp of man. He is aged, with long white hair, but full of vigour. He has preached through America and India. In India, he tells mo, he preached 350 limes on “ iced water,” being a grand old teetotaller. Both Somerville and Varley have it on the cards to visit New Zealand. Varley is as ready as an actor on the stage. He runs about, sits down, and occasionally goes down on one knee.

A LITTLE OUT. Eon a splendid specimen of ignorance on the part of a writer in a public journal, commend us to the following from the Portsmouth Times , England : —Commodore Goodenough was wounded on the left side and on the head, and five men were also wounded. As may be remembered, the Commodore gave a salutary lesson to the savages by destroying their village, although he strictly prohibited the killing of Natives. The facts came prominently and fully before the public in a letter published at the time by one of the officers of the Pearl. The vessel at once “ proceeded north to get cold weather,” but tetanus spasms set in, and the Commodore and two of the injured seamen died. The Commodore was buried at “ Sydney, New Zealand,” on August 24, amidst manifestations of respect from the highest, to the lowest at that port.