LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1338, 4 August 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(From our ow.n UonußsroxDKMT.) WELLINGTON. Iu the case of Maude v. Roes a demurrer was allowed with coats, the defendant having been allowed fourteen days to amend on payment of costs, A man named Jarnos Ryan, who had been sentenced to four yeara’ penal servitude, and was on the eve of being discharged, was brought before the Court on a charge of being illegally at large. Mr shaw defended the prisoner. From the facta elicited it seems that Ryan earned a remission of sentence while in Mount Cook prison, received his good service money and his discharge, but in order to comply with prison rules, it was necessary that he be sent to Lyttleton, from whence he came. However, his wife and family being in Wellington, he absconded from the steamer and remained at that place. Mr Shaw intimated that prisoner would be re-arrested,immediately the Court discharged him, by the gaoler of Mount Cook prison. Ryan, who was overcome by emotion, said that having lost his remission for good conduct, he would have to serve another year in Mount Cook prison, through having been released from custody twelve hours before his time. Mr Shaw said it was shameful that such a thing should be done. Prisoner was then discharged, but was immediately re-arrested. The Commission appointed to inquire into complaints made by steerage passengers of the Catalonia are of opinion that the provision of good quality, but the cooking was decidedly faulty, and that the general supervision was not as good as it might have been. The private passengers have been advised to lay complaints with the Commissioner of Customs. The Commissioner went off to Soames Island to take evidence as to the outbreak of typhoid fever on board the ship Oxford. NAPIER. The Poultry Show held to-day was highly successful, there being a larger number of entries, aud a better class of birds exhibited than on any previous occasion. INVERCARGILL. During the past two months a number of severe cases of typhoid fever cases have been admitted to the hospital. Most of the cases came from a distance. Three hundred and ninety five deferred payment settlers in Southland are in arrears with their rents, their aggregate indebtedness being £5,451. The Land Board has notified defaulters that the arrears of rent must be paid within one month, failing which the land will be forfeited.