TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 12 January 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

(PISU DKITIiD I’IIESS ASSOCIATION.) This Day. Racing ReportsChristchurch.—Mr R. Campbell, of Bnscot Park, England, has presented a cnp of the yaluc of 100 guineas each year, for five years, to be added to the Canterbury Great Autumn Handicap of 300 sovs., to be run for alternately on Christchurch and Dunedin courses. Cambridge.—At the races here yesterday, about 800 persons we present. During the first round, at back of the course, Sportsman fell while jumping, and his rider, Williams, of Auckland, suffered a slight concussion of the brain. CRIME at AUCKLAND. Auckland.—At the criminal session, Plummer has been sentenced to 7 years for sending threatening letters, and 3 years additional for housebreaking. William Ripely, of Cambridge, was fined £SO for a libel on Victor Grayille; to be imprisoned till paid. James Simpson, schoolteacher, charged with libelling James Reid, postmaster at Awanni, apologised and was fined Ll and ordered to be imprisoned till the rising of Court. This libel was an accusation of opening and reading letters.

Auckland, Later. —The charge of manslaughter against a Cambridge native broke down at the Supreme Court to-day, owing to a flaw in the indictment. The accused is re-arrested and will be proceeded against in Auckland Magistrates Court.

ARRIVAL OP MAIL LETTERS. New Plymouth.—The steamer has brought only the letters of the ’Frisco mail, the newspapers not having been fumigated when she left Auckland. Small-pox Passengers. Auckland.—The small-pox patients brought by the Zealandia are at Auckland. They are R. T. Crawford and George Stringer. Both had been vaccinated ; and Stringer is so well that it is doubtful whether he has had smallpox at all. Dr. Sands was sent down, and was isolated on the island with the patients. An Australian stowaway, J. Anderson, sent to quarantine, has been appointed to attend on the patients ; he and the quarantine keeper being vaccinated by the Health Officer. Fatal Accident Havelock,—Charles A. Donnel met with an accident yesterday at Totara Hill, 8 miles from Havelock. A truck went over him bodily, and death resulted. English Cricketers. Dunedin, This Day,—English players commenced a three days’ match against a Dunedin Eighteen to-day. The local team went in first.