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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1096, 6 July 1882, Page 2

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CjißisTCHvnon, July 5,

A Company to light tho City by electricity has been formed with a capital of £25,000 in £1 shares. A large number has already been taken up. Tho ElHsmere Cartners rusolved to assist in tho formatujm of a Company to promote Europea.n flax fibre and oil industry,

A Coursing Ground Company with a capital of £2,000 in, £5O shares has been formed. Abo nt 200 acres at Rolleston Junction, 18 miles from Christchurch, will bo bought, and laid out on the Plumpton model, The N.Z.S. Company have received cable advice from Toondon that the ship Lammermoor, from Sydney to San Eraucisee. has h.me ashore at tho latter port. No lives wore lost. The vessel was insured. ■Wanoanui', July 5. A fire broke out in Wakefield & Hogg's chemists' shop last night, destroying it, The shop and stock were insured in tho Colonial for £BOO, and in the South British for £250. The County Council passed a resolution to arrange with ipther local bodies for publication of adt ertiseinents in a small joint advertising sheet. Additional insurance on Wakefield and Hogg's stock, VI ctorian £250, Standard £450. Auckland, July 5.

Experiments on borrd the Nelson with Newcastle, Russell and Whangarei Coal, show that tho latter is the best. The Nelson will go to Whangarei to load 900 tons. It is believed they can do this in two daj s. The Government have decided to refund Sergeant McGovern all sums expended qy him in conno ctien with Winiata’e capture. The o: tpenditure was considerable, but quite unauthorised, as McGovern acted on his own responsibility.

Several hundreds visited H.M.S. Nelson on Sunday last, de spite the persuasive eloquence of an itinerant preacher on tho wharf. Mr. Eergusson has resigned the chairmanship of the Piako County Council.

The schooner Torea, 78 ton s, owned by Mitchelson and Co., of th. is place, went ashore at Kaipara Head s. She was outward bound with 70,1 )00 feet of timber for Lyttelton, and 11 ad been waiting for a chance to get to sea for several days. The hull Is ini mrod in the Union office for £lOOO, <J f which £6OO is re-insured in thro a other offices.

A petition has been forwi .rded to Mr Swanson for presontatioin to tho House against the removal of the Native Lands Court Department! |o Wellington. It is signed by la wyers, business men, and citizens. A severe north-westerly gal') was experienced in Auckland on Sai mrday night, which lasted about four hours. A considerable amount of damage was done among small vessels lying at anchor. A number of buildingfl in the suburbs suffered, the fences being blown down, &c.

A fire occurred on Saturday n t Papatoitoi, on Mr Joseph Preeman.’s farm. No lives were lost. It is supp osed to be the work of an iuoendiary l , The building was insured for £l9O in the New Zealand Insurance Company Wellington, July 5.

At the Supreme Court yeati ‘rday 'William Ellis, aged 22, was cony, ioted of a most brutal criminal assault on Mary Eliza O'Connor, aged 11 yrtars, at Greytown. Judge Richmond, in passing sentence, said ! f ‘ You h.Ave been convicted, on the clearest pvideuce, of one of tho most brutal ciiii bos I have ever had to deal with m Jud be,

and I must make you an example. Your crime is one that disgraces human nature ; it is the crime of a brute, aud you must receive the punishment of a brute. The judgment of the Court upon you is that you be kept in penal servitude in the Colony of New Zealand for a term of twelve years; and further, that you be twice privately whipped, receiving at each whipping,, thirty strokes with'-<he instrument commonly called a