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[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION],
WELLINGTON, This day. All papers in connection with the Longhurst case are now ready, and the whole question will be considered by the Govern, ment on the return of Major Atkinson and the Hon. Mr Rolleston to Wellington. The appointment of a Commission to enquire into the best route for a railway from the East to West Coast of the South Island will be deferred until the other Commission has reported on the main trank line, An unoccupied cottage near Featherston was destroyed by fire on Monday. Th* origin is attributed to a bush fire. The resolution which was passed some months ago appointing a committee to take the necessary step* to obtain information respecting the construction of a dock for Wellington has been revoked. It is understood that a Petone crew trill accept the challenge issued by Hearn and others, the amount of stakes to be mutually arranged. While out rabbit shooting at Kaikoura on Monday last Drill Instructor Hyde, of Wellington, had his left hand injured by the bursting of a gun, necessitating the amputation of one finger. In the Dunedin telegram re Colonial Bank please read “payment of dividend at 7 per cent. ” The error occurred in the transmission from Dunedin.
The Australia with the December English mails left ’Frisco for Auckland on the 16th inst., 3 days later than the time table date. The City of New York with the January mails arrived at ’Frisco from Auckland on the 22nd inst., 3 days early.
DUNEDIN, This Day. The report of the directors of the Colonial Bank, to be presented at the meeting on the 31st instant, shows the net profits for the half-year to be £20,234, ana the amount available for the division to be £21,500, which they recommend to be thusly applied: add to the reserve fund £5OOO, payment of dividend, at 8 per cent, per annum, £14,000; balance carried forward, £2,500.
The Papakoi murder case will conclude to-night. There is only one witness to examine. The Crown Prosecutor will not again address the jury.
CHRISTCHURCH, Thi* Day. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s ease in Mose* v. Norwich Union Insurance Company, the Counsel for the defence moved for a non suit, which will be argued to-morrow. Mose* seeks to recover £650, insurance on his stock, which was damaged by fire at Timaru last year, and for which he stood his trial for arson and was acquitted. At the Supreme Court this morning the case Moses v. Norwich Union Insurance Company was resumed, and the plaintiff was nonsuited on the point raised by Mr Harper yesterday : “ That the conditions of the policy had not been complied with inasmuch as a detailed statement of the damaged stock had not been sent in.
WESTPORT, This Day. A man named Patrick Walsh fell through the undecked Railway bridge at Waimangaroa yesterday, and was picked up dead. It is supposed he had been drinking. The steamer Kawatiro, the first of the coal steamers expressly built to the order of the Westport Colliery Company for the trade of
this pert, arrived from Glasgew yesterday menung.
flu SwnUtoa MuAtt feu. AUCKLAND, This Day, The evidence for the defrnoe in the murder ease was concluded, with the axeejMe* of Miss Annie Nielson, sister of Mr* Hamilton, As she is ailing the Court adieurned until to-day, to endeavour to get her evi- - dence. No evidence was called by th* Counsei for Mrs Hsmilton on her behalf. Th* Sublio intereat is increasing. The gallery of te Court is crowded by well dressed women ' daily. Later. The evidence for Priestly's defenee oleeed this morning. Annie Neilsen was oalled. but was too ill to appear, Mr Cooper, on addreseine th* JurjMn behalf of Mrs Hamilton, said the proMtatien had failed to prove that Hamilton did not meet his death by pure accident. Me characterised the questioning ot the prisoner firior to arrest by the Detective* a* un-Eng-Ish, and complained of the advarte attitude whieh th* Crown had taken up In reepeet 01 the prisoners from the first. They were arrested on th* 16th December and had been confined in gaol ever since, so that they had been entirely dependent upon the exertions of their friends to get up the necessary evidence to establish their —- innocence. It was the duty of the M Crown to bring forward every bit of evidence bearing on the case, irrespective of w whether or not it was advene to the prisoners ; but instead of doing this they had only adduced evidence that was favorable to their cose. He then proceeded to show that the entire fabric of the case for the psoascution rsstsd upon ths belief of four medical gentlemen that Hamilton could not have sustained death by a fall againat a bedstead, and thi* was but an opinion open to . question, inasmuch as Dr. BUT- ' son had admitted the probabWty of a wound being received from a fall against a bedstead, and also contended that the uninjured state of the dura footer was opposed to the theory of the wound having been caused by a blow, whieh would necessarily have to be one of excessive violence; and he held that it was quite consistent with the theory of fall, as were also the alleged statements of th* wounded man subsequently rising, staggering about, and <. talking incoherently. |
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1258, 25 January 1883, Page 2
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