LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1232, 23 December 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PBB UNITED FBBSS ASSOCIATION]. WELLINGTON, This day. Counsel for defendants in the recent illicit distilling cases, has written to the Governinent requesting that the bondsmen who went surety for payment of the amount of fines imposed (£400), may be released. The Government have declined to accede to the request. An influential Committee of Wellington citizens has been formed to give a reception to Sir Julius Vogel, who is expected to arrive on Wednesday next. The affair will probably take the form of a luncheon, to which Sir Julius and Lady Vogel will be invited. It is intended to hold the gathering in the Drill Shed. Sir Julius has been telegraphed to, to know what date would be most convenient for him ; probably it will be held on Thursday or Friday next. It ie understood that the Mayor will take the Chair. Sir William Fitzherbert has accepted an invitation to be present and to propose the principal toast. Archibald Forbes closes a successful season here this evening. He wtll be succeeded by the Tambour Major Company. The ship Lady Jocelyn, from London, arrived in harbor this morning. Immediately on arrival the police were informed that a robbery had been committed on board. It appears that shortly after Captain Jenkins died, some person or persons entered his cabin and carried off about £3O. No clue to the perpetrator has yet come to light, but the police are using endeavor to capture the thief. NAPIER, This Day. The civil sitting, of the Supreme Court concluded with the case of M. R. Miller v, Locke, claim of about £5OO for oommlwf.on and expenses on a sale at Poverty Bay, A verdict was recorded for £2B expenses, each party to pay hi, own coete. At Mr W. C. Smith's address to hi, constituents, at Waipawa, a vote of thanks and confidence was passed, and an illuminated address signed by 750 electors was presented to him. The Railway employes give a gold Watch, suitably engraved, in recognition of his services on their behalf. A man named Wilson Hawker, of Woodville, has been killed by the upsetting of hi* dray down a deep cutting. Cleared, for London, Shaw SaviU’s barque Wave Queen, with a cargo of wool and tallow, valued at £69,7272. KUMARA, This Day. An application to upset the election of 'Mr Wm. Burnett, as Mayor of Kumara, through alleged illegalities in the appointment and action of the Returning Officer, and othercauses, wae heard before Dr. Gillie,, R.M., to-day. The Court ruled that the evidence as to the alleged irregularities did not tend os said in the petition, to defeat the fairness of the election, and dismissed the case with costs against the petitioners. PATEA, Till, Day At the land sale 36 eash section, of about 3000 acres ([realised £568, and 14 deferred payment sections of about 2000 acres £3305. The highest price given was £9 5s per acre. At th* R.M. Court William Dale was charged on the information of the Chairman of the Permanent Building Society, with altering the Society’s Bank pass-book, with intent to defraud. Defendant applied for an adjournment which was granted for seven days ; bail was allowed, himself in £2OO, and two sureties of £lOO each. Until recently he has been Managing Director of the Society.

NELSON, This Day. At the Supreme Court in the case of Williams v. the Queen, an action for damages sustained by the steamer Westport through striking on a snag and sinking at Westport, the jury found that the plaintiff had sustained £1,500 damages. AUCKLAND, This Day. Thomas Priestly and Mrs Hamilton were brought up on remand, charged with the murder of Hugh Hamilton. Superintendent Thompson, in asking for a remand until the 30th, said “Your Worship, I am not prepared to adduce any evidence, and as I indicated before, I now apply for a further remand till to-morrow (Saturday) week. Since the last adjournment a post mortem examination has taken place, and without anticipating or disclosing its results, I may say its results fully confirm me in the course I have pursued in causing the prisoners to be arrested on the charge of wilful murder. I feel satisfied with the correctness of what I have done.” The remand was then granted, there being no opposition. The prisoner, were then removed from the dock, and the bulk of those present in the Court immediately joined the crowd in the street, who were waiting for the re-appearance of the accused. 'There was no attempt, however, at a manifestation of feeling on the part of the public. The case of alleged seduction is set down for hearing at the Civil sittings of the Supreme Court, damages £5OO. The plaintiff, Adam McLuskey, has alleged in his declaration that the defendant, Edward K. Gilbert, seduced his daughter Fanny, who has given birth to a child, and defendant denies the allegaticns. A man named Howry has been terribly injured by the explosion of a blasting charge at the Mount Eden Quarry. His arm has been amputated at the Hospital, and he is still in a very critical condition. DUNEDIN, This Day. Ah Chow, a Chinaman, wae committed for trial for stabbing and wounding a man named John Godfrey, on the 16th inst., at Mullocky Gully. Godfrey had been teasing the Chinaman, who retaliated with his pocket-knife.