LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1364, 4 October 1883, Page 3

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT), CHRISTCHURCH, Mario Simatti and his wife were each sentenced to four years’ imprisonment with hard labor, for arson, at the Supreme Court, on Wednesday morning DUNEDIN. At the State school at Milton, the headmaster has agreed to conduct a Bible class before school hours in the morning, Out of 253 pitpile sufficiently advanced to read the .Bible, 251 attended. A passenger per To Anan died shortly /after arrival at Port Chalmers, from delrrlum trmeiu He leaves a widow and 4 children, who were also passengers by the To Anau. j John Day was sentenced to five years im- ' prlsonment for rape on a child A meeting of shareholders in the Lankey Creek Cement Mining Company, Reefton, has been held here, to receive the report of the expert sent over to inspect the concern That gentleman said, from the thinness of the cement and the nature of the ground, it was not payable so far as the drives wont, Me did not think the claim was any good. Mr Horace Bastings said it was one of the moat monstrous mining swindles ever perpetrated, and ho indulged in some unfavorable remarks regarding the manner in which the West Coast people had swindled Dunedin capitalists and speculators William Wishart, of the Clarendon Hotel, was charged at the Police Caurt with allow-

ing dice playing at 2 o'clock on Sunday ■k morning, six young men had been found gambling in the presence of the landlady. The B.M. said he was satisfied there was'a esse for conviction, but agreed to an appeal, on the point that the landlord did not know of this occurrence. The landlord was in bod at the time. NEW PLYMOUTH. At the Borough Council it has been decided that a poll should be taken of ratepayers on the question whether the 50 acre ■0 reserve now used as a racecourse should be 9 ~ made over to the Borough for reserve purposes, or to be kept as a racecourse in pernetuity. KUMAR A. Mr Wm. Bedmond, M.P., arrived in Kumara from Greymouth on Monday, He received an address. He lectured the same evening, to a large audience, and takes his departure this evening for Hokitika, where he lectures to-night. WELLINGTON. The Zealandia arrived at Frisco on September 30th, with September Colonial mails, four days in advance of contract time. A young man named James Hammond, who was arrested yesterday, on the charge of forging the name of his employer, was to-day committed for trial. AUCKLAND. A fire broke out at 2 o’clock this morning in the centre of a block of five wooden a. shops in Wyndham street. The conflagra-V-T tion originated in the shop and tenement occupied by Jacobs, bootmaker. Jacobs has a wife and two children, who slept in the upper story, and they narrowly escaped. By Mrs Jacobs was awakened by the bedroom becoming full of smoke. At the same time * she noticed flames issuing from the shop window below. A neighbour, attracted by the screams, procured a ladder, and rescued one of the children by the window. Mrs Jacobs, in her excitement, got out of the other window and fell to the ground but escaped unhurt, Jacobs and the other child escaped by clambering into the window of the adjoining shop. The Fire Brigade succeeded in confining the ravages of the fire to Jacob’s shop, though Hare’s stationery, Bu ckston’s second hand and Cavanagh’s grocery shops and stocks were much injured. A patient at the Lunatic Asylum assaulted another with a broomstick to-dav, fracturing his skull. y • At the Supreme Court, R. Bell and R. Gibbons received 12 months imprisonment each for breaking and entering. W. Burns aged 70, charged with indecently assaulting a W little girl, was found guilty of common assault. V SciUnce was deferred.