LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1249, 17 January 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION], DUNEDIN, This Day. The boy White, who stabbed his compun. ion in the butcher's shop at Fort Chsltaers has boon remanded. The engine driver David Thompson, of the ten o’clock up train to Oamaru, fell off the engine shortly after leaving Palmerston, and received a severe blow on the forehead which rendered him insensible. It in supposed he missed his footing while turning * sharn curve. r CHRISTCIHURCH, This Day. Joseph Welchman, employed at Mr Seed’s flax mill at Southbrook, got bis right arm entangled in the scutching mill this morning, and the arm was completely torn off below the elbow. The unfortunate sufferer was con veyed to Raugiora, where he was attended by Drs Williams and Downs. The Rev. Charles Fraser was yesterday cited before the Presbytery, but failed to appear. He was deposed|and a committee was appointed to confer with the congregation as to his successor. 1? further deficiencies have been discovered in th e Kaiapoi Municipal accounts. All the book s relating to the dog tax account are missiing, except one, which shows a receipt to th e amount of£46 10s for the first half of 1882 ; while the cash book and ledger give receipts for that period of only £37. WELLINGTON, This day. The Premier has returned to Wellington. A controversy is going on respecting the healing powers of Mr Stephens and the local evening paper has invited communications from those who have been treated. Owt of five letters sent in, four persons state that they did not receive any relief, while the fifth winds up thus : “Be he what he may the relief from suffering for a fortnight,which has not been secured before, is something to be thankful for, and she has never been so well for many many years.” Mr Stephen having mentioned that Dr. Key worth had sent persons to him, has brought forth a, reply from the latter, in which he states that he never sent a patient to Mr Stephen, and further, that he has no intention of doing so. The revenue of the Consolidated Fund for the Colony for the quarter ending December, 1882, was as under: —Ordinary Custom's, £362.341 16s ; stamps, £114,099 10s 7d ; limd tax, £2 10s 5s ; property tax, £699 17s VJd ; beer duty, £1,764 16s 9d ; railways, £2lB ,192 3s 6d ; telegraph, £24,905 2s 6d : regi stration and other fees, £15,820 5s 4d ; mexine, £3,999 8s 2d ; miscellaneous, £BOlB 8»> 5d ; territorial depasturing licenses, etc., £'18,376 6s 5d ; miscellaneous, £1,303 16s 8d : Total, £785,424 2s 7d. Land sales, ordinary, £79,408 9s lid ; on deferred pikyment, £6,994 16s lOd : Grand Total, £871,85’,7 954d. For the corresponding quarter, 1881, the revenue was as follows :—Ordinary 'Oiskome £366,235 7s fid ; stamps, £97,730 6s *9d ; Lnd tax, £l5O 7s Id ; property tax, £l5 B 7s 2d ; beer duty, £17,034 19s lOd; railways, £205,812 6s lid ; telegraph, £19,34 159 s lid ; registration and other fees, £7,40f I 9s lOd ; marine, £3,233 10a 5d ; miscellanec >us, £BOlB 8s 5d : net revenue collected d .uring the quarter. Expenditure during December quarter, 1882—Consolidated fund , £942415 • land fund, £50,087The Supreme Court Criminr J Sittinge opened this morning. The judge charge to the Grand Jury lasted only t wo minutes, He congratulated them on the lightness of the calendar, there being none of a serious character. A true bill was f< jund against Henry Freeman for housebreak ing, and the trial is proceeding. True bills were found against i Sarah Far nell for wounding, Julia O’Beir nefor attempted suicide ; Peter Walsh, atten ipted larceny. No bill was found against Ann ie alias Mary Brown, for larceny from the pt iraon. AUCKLAND, Thia Day. The quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court was opened to-day. Judge Gillies, in his charge to the Grand Jury, stated that 37 prisoners were charged with 29 offences. He remarked on the increase of crime in the district which he found difficult to account for. A singular fact was that when one or two crimes of a particular character happened in the district others followed. He nad no doubt that a sensational account in the newspapers had something to do with it. Such reports had a pernicious effect upon young persons and those of emotional temperament. Referring to the Hamilton murder case he said that while the investigative Magistrate had done right in committing th e prisoners on the evidence, the Grand Jury would have to be satisfied that the evidence was sufficient to warrant them in believing that the prisoners were guilty before finding a true bill. They could take no cognrsance of any intention to produce further evidence, however serious the case was on the strong suspicion of guilt. 2.50 p.m. The Grand Jury found true bills against R. O. Brightlock and Owen Sims, for forgery; Mark Marks and Sampson Josephson, for stealing from a shop ; A. E. Long, for attempted parricide. There was no bills against Annie Stagpoole, for concealment of birth; Hohepa, tor horse sbsaling; and Ellen Curtis, for stealing from the person.