LAST HIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1320, 23 June 1883, Page 3

LAST HIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OVB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NAPIER, Friday. The Napier Jockey Club aud Press rooms, near the Grand Stand, at Hastings Race Course, were discovered to be on fire on Thursday. Assistance being at hand, the fire was extinguished before much damage had been done. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained. AUCKLAND, Friday. At the Supreme Court on Thursday the mortgagees of the Oddfellows Hall, at Hamilton, obtained judgment for £873 against several gentlemen who hold the position of trustees of the lodge. Judgment for £750 was given against John Sheehan, Esq., M.H.R., under a claim arising out of the disposal of his interest iu a block of land near Wanganui. Thomas L. Wilcock was granted a decree absolute dissolving his marriage with his wife, on the ground of adnltery with Charles Edward Ford. The case against Stevens, for bribery, has been postponed for decision till Saturday, bail being allowed on defendants own recognisance of £5O. Mr James Mills, Manager of the Union Steamship Company, is a passenger by the Penguin, from Fiji. W. J. Hunt, Esq., plaintiff in the action against Sir Arthur Gordon, is also a passenger. NELSON Friday. A verdict of manslaughter was returned against Davidson, charged with the murder of Denis Quinlan, at Lyell. Prisoner, in reply to the usual questions put by the Judge, said he had been convicted on the oaths of a perjured prostitute and two perjured policemen. He was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Mary Gramattica has been acquitted on the charge of being au accessory after the fact to the murder of Quinlan. Henry Cook, charged with bigamy, was acquitted. DUNEDIN, Friday. George Moran was committed for trial on a charge of burning down his house at the Kaikor.ii. Kerosene was discovered on the building and on Moran’s clothes. The inquiry into the recent fire at the Railway Goodshed terminated on Thursday. The jury found there was no evidence to show how the fire originated. The Harbor Board Works Committee intend to draw up specifications, with the view of calling tenders for deepening the bar. Mr Ross, a member of the Board, stated that the wrong men were employed on the dredge, and so inefficient results were attained. A motion was carried authorising Mr Ross to make any changes in the the working of the dredge during the next two months which he may deem nt. At the gaol enquiry on Thursday the evidence consisted of written complaints to the Inspector of Prisons and Minister of Justice, signed by prisoners. Several charges were made, amongst others that male prisoners got into the bath-room with female prisoners, that some of the officers had been the worse for liquor, that prison goods had been taken to private houses by the gaoler’s orders, that female prisoners had gone into the chief gaoler’s quarters unattended by the matron, etc. The gaol chaplain, Mr Torrance, was examined, and made grave charges against Cal <1 well, Chief Gaoler. He complained that prisoners were ill-treated, one of them having to sleep for three nights on the bare ashphalte in a corridor. Witness made no complaints to tho Visiting Justices having no confidence in them. The Commissioners sit again ou Monday, when Mr Stout will conduct Caldwell's case.