LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1175, 14 October 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON Oct. 13. At the Supreme Court to-day Mr Ollivier, solicitor, applied for a new trial in the case of James Jonathan Adams, recently convicted of conspiiacy, on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to evidence; aud secondly that of the misdirection of the Judge. His Honor said he wished to intimate that should he grant the rule nm he proposed to make it returnable at a date which would allow it to be argued before the other Judges. The Judges would very soon be in Wellington in attendance at the Court of Appeal, and there would then be an opportunity to argue the case before a full Bench. The case was one which could not be taken before the Court of Appeal under the Court of Appeal Act. Mr Ollivier suggested a trial after the Court of Appeal dispersed. His Honor said he did not know as to such a solemn proceeding as a new trial at the bar, although, no doubt, the matter was very important, it was quite unnecessary for him to say anything about that at present. He saw no difficulty, nor ho might say did His Honor the Chief Justice, in the rule being argued before the Judges who had heard nothing of the case, and that new minds would be brought to bear on the matter which was very desirable, as the case really affected the the administrator of Justice so profoundly. He promised to give his decission as to the granting of a rule nisi in the .course of a few days. Nothing additional has transpired in connection with the attempted suicide by W. M. Lewis last night. The appointment of E. T. Connolly as

Minister of Justice is formally gazetted tonight. At the Divorce Court a rule nisi was granted in the case Brown v. Brown and Bashford. This was a petition of the wife for a divorce on the ground of adultery and desertion. Another breach of promise case in which £lOOO damages are claimed, is on the tapis. The plaintiff is a well-known Hebe and the defendant is landlord of an hotel in the city. This Day. The Government arc making arrangements to fill the office of General Inspector of Goldfields, for which a sum was voted last session. The gentleman who has been offered the position is a thorougly practical man. The commission to report on the northern extension of the south main trunk railway line is now complete, and will comprise Dr Pollen. Mr J. T. Thompson, late Surveyorgeneral, and Mr J. Fulton, M.H.R. Owing to the Hinemoa undergoing repairs, the departure of the Premier for the North will be delayed, and he will probably leave in the Stella at the end of next week. The boating season opens this afternoon with a procession of boats. AUCKLAND, This Day. Another attempt is to be made to utilise the iron sand deposits on the West Coast near Manukau Heads. A smelting establishment is to be erected at Onehunga. The pair who had eloped from Sydney have been traced here. The lady, who is the wife of a gentleman in Sydney, fearing a warrant would be issued, has agreed to return to her husband.

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. There are two divorce cases to be heard on Monday. Diphtheria exists atKaiapoi, and the public school was closed yesterday for fumigation.

TIMARU, This Day. Dr Roseby, of Dunedin, delivered a lecture here last night on Comets. He expressed an opinion that the present one was either the comet of 1843 or another in the same orbit.

DUNEDIN, This Day. The Episcopalian Synod have ruled Mr Graham’s election as a member for Port Chalmers informal. This is a case in which the Returning Officer struck out all votes of the opposing candidate till he and Mr Graham were equal, and gave his casting vote for the latter.

Mr Parsons, the chief officer of the Rotomahana, fell down the hold of the steamer in the graving dock, and fractured his right arm as well as sustaining other injuries. The Papakaio murder ease was continued yesterday. The prosecution was concluded. Very little interest is taken in the case. Today counsel will address the jury, and the judge will sum up. It is expected that a verdict will be returned this evening. INVERCARGILL, This Day. An inquest on the body of James Bowie, the boy who was killed on the railway at Gore, was held yesterday, but stands adjourned for the examination of the driver and shunter of the train. The evidence showed that the boy was sheltering himself at the end of the van from a shower, when the shunter, who could not see him from the points, waved to the driver to come back, thus knocking the boy down on the rails.