TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1080, 30 May 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(t'ROM OUR OWN CORRESRIINDENTS). Xlw Plymouth, May 29. A kerosene lamp burst in a sit'ingTomn of .\iajor Goodall's house, last night, setting lire to the room, hut the Hames were .subduod before they got a fair hold on ti-e house. The furniture was damaged to the extent of t. 9-1; burnt. Dot It were insured in the South V. ELLINGTON, ?4av 29. An inu'.ietnial Jewish inerting was he’d ar im* Sym-gogne ('hambi rs ye<Im* continued dtstr. ssami perstc ili -n smiTored by Jews in Southern Knsna. A subscriplion list was openvu, £os were subscribed in the room. A sum i.-f £99 has beuii siibscri’-c-d here in aid of the Tiin-iru disaster fund, this includes a subscriplion of five guineas each of member;; of the H.M.s' Xchmn arrived hero from Sydney al 11 o dock yes'-t-rd ay morning. During the day she was visited by hundreds of persons. A. son of Paiiitd ('alley, of PttkeriSaturdav, the boy had boihlugs ripped almost from knee to thigh, and his bowels completely ripped open. On Saturday Nicholas Congb.an, one of the workmen, went to sot the stone saw machine iu motion, and in turiu'ig a wheel stood directly beneath the gahe containing saws. No sooner hml he touched the wheel than cho gahe descended on him, causing injuries from which he died in hospital on Saturday afternoon. The Union Company have on the way out from home, or under construction ten new vessels, live of which are intended for intercolonial, ami five for coastal trade. All aj'c of the same dimensions, 285 feet in length, 36 feel in width, ami 2-’> depth, or a trifle larger than the Rotornahana; Thehrs.l b mrnu/aml is L> Im followed Ly tlm Wairarapa, lln-nroto, \\ aiimra, and Yarawura. Lite Mampmiri v. ; >i i-ouho.-i--the Albion, ami the Vvair-.trapa will rei.d.ace lite Ruturmi. t. mh-h hirer is to bo cm■ Joyed ex..-li l . i><dy cm the coast. The Waitara and 'i’arav.cr:t rtjJ're tiiu Kingarooum ami A. raw ala. which arc to be milised as ciTra boats during the summer, ami relieving ho.-iis in winter. Thu llaui'oto, which b.as carrying capacity of 2390 tons, n- to l>«* employed in tup Sydney trade. Smaller boats arc to be m-eil on tin* c ii't for ge-icral cargo purposes. Gm.) o:' i.'m new steamers isio heu.-dlud an < xpress b -at, and will be employed on ib.e run from Lytleltou to Wellington, Taranaki, Onehnnga and back, performing the round trip once a week. She will be similar in size to the IJawca, and will sit am lifteen knots an hour, .-Lid hare accommodation for one hundred saloon passengers. She is expected to make the tri]) each way in thirty-four hours s'caming. The Hero at once replaces the Taiaroa in the Fiji trade, for which a special steamer is building.

E.Ll.’s Court, Gisborne. Saturday, 27th May. f 8.-fore M. I’imE- ]., R.’.L] P. J. Dickson was u‘mr?,«-d tnat on iu.- <L<l inikiwinllv p-.*r mt driinkmim*.s i on Lis licensed premises, to wit, the .Argyll Hotel, by- permitting onu Augiisliis lloytc to la* thui'-.u whin* in a ;• ale of drunkenness, contr-.rc to aOk-n ;i ■ 1 1 kit Hl v, it. nes-e.s ho ordered out or Uourt. Mr licc.s appeared for the dufendSergeant B illen sworn, d< posed— I was in the (rlads!one Komi on liie 211’:! iu.-t. I heard a great noise in ! lefendants bouse. I went over, and ; pi.-t as 1 got to the hotel a man named .Augustus Hovte staggered out of the | loud, and I c*’>ili*l mm to ,r u ru.v.-tv h* he v.oiiLl be arremud. lie turned! •otind to go into Dickson’s ho:i*-t. 1 I h.-fen dm. it met him a! t'.<- door of I ' jar, ami 1 cautiom i d< iemlaul mH lo . 'he him any more drink, ihey then vent iiihiib. I remained outside some I ime and heard lloytc making use of | ioisy language. 1 went inside and ' ’ouml defendant behind the counter. 1 II oyte had a pewter pot in hi s Land. ■ I arrested Hoyte for drunkenness and • . nought him before the Court next lay. Constable Wilson assisted me to ' ' akc Hoyte to the lockup. By the Bench :—I cannot tell where loyto got drunk. .Mr Rees, for the defence, stated I ' hat lie would be. prepared to prove ' hat the defendant had not infringed I ]

rhe 1. IBih seel ion of the Licensing Act of ISM. He would call a number of witnesses to prove that the man Hoyte was not permitted to get drunk on the premises of the Argyll Hotel, and rot only that, but he would prove that liquor had been refused hi a. Thomas Pratt, sworn, deposed—l know the def’emlant, and also know Hoyte. 1 saw Hoyle in the hotel on the morning of the 21th of Mav. Hoyte went out lo speak to Sergeant Bullen, and he came back again. V'rmn the time Hoyle came into the 'lo’.el. after speaking to the Sergeant, he never got anything intoxicating. AVLeji 1 first saw Hoyte he was nut drunk. He was a man who was always in the habit of talking loudly. By the Be: (■'; : I saw j loyto come into the dcfu-.idmit’s hotel about an hour beim’c bo was arrested. A\ hen he was there he I.ml only one glass of shandygaff. Previous to the Sergeant speaking to Hovte, the ilei’endant had ruiuscd to K-rri him with liquor, as he considered loat he had had enough. -Andrew Pollock was called, and stated that lie saw Hoyte taken awav by the Sergeant on the day in question. The defendant Lad refused to serve Lim v. ilh liquor after llie Scr;. r ennt had war nd him. Hoyte tmly got a glass of wa:cr ami -t tonic water alter the Serguanl had Lee- tn mrnM: to I’.e defendant. Ho’.Nr y.in his M state, ner radier i<mdiy. Mr ib.es t’iuu called the dcfomlant, whostated : —.! km-w A ;;g:i Jus Ho\ io. ' a li jond wh * w;i -- *,*. ilh :<im h .1 a long beer. 1 .r’.*. _d him after this, and ;md him home. Hu was mil t-'re’il. when L<- vof the shandygan. He v-a. In Ms usual state, laughing ami tnlHr-g v< r; loudly, iluwent our ami suM. qm iitiy •r..;o.u!t Builu’*. crime into the LotM and tMu me t.ot lo give Hoyte any more drink, lloyto asked for inure drink, ami 1 gr.ve him a glass of water, and after that a bottle of tonic water. Be said he wanted to celebrate Her ?!:iiesty’s Birthday. man named A’r’iiiie was in Ihe Lar, and ho had a pewter pot of beer in Ms hand. Hoyte wanted to take some of the beer from White, but 1 told Mm no! to lot lloyto have it. I never permitted Hoyte to got drunk on my premises. Charles Priestley was called, and corroborated the testimony of the previous wit nesses. His Worship, in mirnming np, said that he read the words in the 1?J clause of I.iu Ace in the following marmor, viz, that the little words "‘to take place” on the premises me.mt that the man r.ecimod of drunkenness must have olHaimid the drinli on those premises, an l that tlm licensee was C'»gm.sii'!t <*7 the Imt. -\v one was more miversu to iiimuk'.mne.;?) th'in !.e v.-.-is, ;ukl ;i.i per.-.m eu'.thl set I i.s i'.'iee -1 it in Die ;-u. -• uin'i'ie! 1 e.s lie I endc vi-:', i to ii > evi.-" 1 si'.i.-o bo 'nvl :.u::or to ? t: on the !;< ,| i'. , .i ; yet !ie could not he bliiole II > I,■ ie-ct tmil the c .i o ■■ v-iucii ;; eonvictio:i tvns s-night in tiiis case was not '.'i -i'.i ■.■. uh Lis reii iiiiy, ::ii-l beto'/e a ise;vie!ion could be sii-stmiieil it v/oiiil b:> iioci'ssai-y to prove that tile iicensco yei'iiiii. tiio drill.iieii-iie.-.j to take phtce on his premises. Tho case won! 1 Im dismis'-cd with costs. .Ilis V.’crship said that he would remind; that ao proof had been adduced tn e.iali:..- him to convict, vet, nt the same time, he might state that the .‘■tergi ant was quite justilied. in bringing the case fur-vard. Diistiu i": lay of I’lweuiiTr. Hugh oliilliiis and d imes hla'.lhcws were cl.arge.l with ivilrul destruction of the property of Jlr A. (r. Bell, of ji alciraka. They were remanded to the Ist of June, bail being accepted in .£2O, and o::o surety e:ic!i in ,C2O.