LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1166, 4 October 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, This Day. At the inquest on the lad Williams, killed by the tramway on Saturday night, a verdict of Accidental Death was returned. Dr. Gillon, Resident Surgeon of the Hospital, has resigned. The Supreme Court continued to-day. William Noakes, for a breach of the Arms Act, was convicted and .sentenced to 24 hours’ imprisonment. James Henry Sibbald, larceny from the person, was acquitted. Wm. Rattray, formerly Government clerk, on two charges of embezzlement failed to surrender, and his bail was estreated. The conspiracy case will be taken tomorrow. Arrangements are being made by the Snr-veyor-General for taking observations of the Transit of Venus. DUNEDIN, This Day. At the Supreme Court Jones, who turned ; Queen’s evidence against his companions, was ; sentenced to two years’ hard labor ; Moses ! Prince, for embezzlement of Druid funds, to : two years : Thos. Keating, for stealing from ; the person, to 12 months’ hard labor. The “Daily Times’’ has declared an I interim dividend of seven per cent. i The Refrigerating Company has chartered ; the s.s. Sorrento to load frozen moat.

The Health Officer’s report shows that of late there has been an alarming increase of scarlet fever. During the last month 24 cases have been reported. Dr. Maunsell has urgently submitted that the City Council should not delay in the matter of erecting a fever hospital. The Council recommends the Government to erect such a building on a portion of the Dunedin Hospital ground. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day, Johnny Hall, the comedian, was married to-day to Miss Jessie (.Trey, a member of his Company. The Supreme Court Session closed yesterday. Francis lunes, brewer, of Sydenham, on a charge of perjury, was acquitted. Mary Remy pleaded guilty to stealing goods on several occasions, and got three years’ hard labor. A Maori, from Chatham Islands, charged with an indecent assault was acquitted. Matilda Harrison, for larceny from the person, got ten months. A meeting of the promoters of the West Coast Railway was held last evening, at which it was determined not to proceed with the formation of the Company, but to keep up the agitation in favor of its replacing the proposed Government line. AUCKLAND, This Day. Thu Return Football Match with the Sydney Team was played yesterday. Between 2,000 and 3,000 persons were present. Blinding showers occurred throughout the game. Auckland won by three goals and two tries to one goal by Sydney, viz., 18 points to 4. It was decided that the Cricket Team visit the principal southern towns during the ensuing season. In the Supreme Court yesterday, John Davis, who was charged with stealing £6O from Thomas Davis, hotel-keeper, at Kamo, was acquitted. Samuel Joy, for bigamy, received two months’ imprisonment, without hard labor. In the Supreme Court to-day a nolle prosequi was entered in the case of Little, charged with bigamy, and the prisoner discharged. Fiji News Per S-S- TaiaroaEdgar Gillett, who was trusted with the conveyance of £261 from Rew a to Levuka. has disappeared. He is supposed to have levanted to New Ze tland. On the last trip of the Taiaroa, from Suva to Levuka \V. Peterson fell overboard and was drowned. Captain Watt, of the barque.ntine Redcoat, well known in New Zealand, has died at. Suva. Town lots at Suva have been sold for £l4 per foot. The Goodenougli memorial clock in the town at Levuka is completed. The captain of the Windward Ho, which arrived at Suva on the 15th Sept., reports that Captain Gordon and four of the crew of the French cutter Portobella had been murdered at the I -land <sf Santa, and the vessel pillaged. A French warship subsequently visited Santo, but the Natives retreated to the bush. The cutter was manned by the cruiser and taken to New Caledonia. NAPIER, This Day. ( A fatal accident occurred to a passenger by the last train to the races yesterday. All the trains were packed, including the plati forms. One man on the platform, named Derrint, a saddler, when near Napier slipped between the carriages, and was terribly mangled. The shares in the Frozen Meat Company are passing off well. INVERCARGILL, This Day. A sad accident happened at the Mataura River last night. Two young men named John and William Smith were coining down In a boat when a squall struck and capsized her. -John Smith managed to reach the shore, but William was drowned.