The Invercargill Times. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1870.
Dr Featherston is expected out in November. Mr Dillon Bell will probably remain longer. Mr 0. R. D. Ward has been re-appointed to the district judgeship at Wanganui. The establishment of a paper mill is advocated in Auckland, and ifc is said that prehminary steps "have been taken to effect that object. Robert Graham has been charged by John Lundon at the Auckland police court with a breach of i the Marriage Act by marrying his niece. The j faot was not denied, but the case was dismissed : by the justices. At the meeting of the Southland Prospecting Association, held at "the Prince of Wales Hotel yesterday, 14th, it was decided to wind affiirs up. All liabilities of the Society wUI be paid from funds in haul, and the balance refunded pro rata as Bpeedily as possible. The 8.8. Phoebe, advertised to sail to-morrow, was not reported, south last night. She has evidently been detained in the Manakau, by the non-arrival of the San Francisco boat, and her departure from this port must be correspondingly postponed. An old resident of Invercargill," Me William Lockhart, sen., has passed away from our midst, at the advanced age of 73 years. His remains were followed to their last resting-place yesterday by a large concourse of our townspeople, the deceased during his residence here having been ' highly respected. Some of the Northern papers remark upon the convenience of the San Francisco route for "levanters." The Wangmui Evening. Herald, among others, says that " this appears to be quite a fashionable route for the" departure of gentle- 1 men of this description." In reply to a question by Mr Armstrong, Mr ; M'Lean stated in the House of Representatives a few days ago, that the expenses of the Govern- 1 ment steamer Luna amounted to £580 a month, \ or £6,960 a year. The Chronicle claims peculiar qualities for the; Wanganui mud, which it says is not so stiff* as that of Wellington, nor so hard as that of Auckland. As, however, it " has the most destructive l_fecfcra~ke~ on "boots" anoAtrowsers,*"' it-differs very little after all from the mud of those places, or, for that matter, from that of Dunedin. The Cromwell people (says the Wakatip MaU) have entered the produce market, and we hear of a sale of oats at -4s per bushel, delivered on_ the farm. The retail price at Cromwell, we believe, is 7s. In Queenstown, 4s 6>i to ss. The following is an exact copy of a notice of appeal sent to the Lyttelton Borough Council at their late meeting : — " To the Lyttelton Baurough Consel.— Sir— i Ham Not satisfied with your disisen on my Rate on Noraich Quy i shall apeel to the Magestite Court." The Auckland Chamber of Commerce met on the 29th ult, and adopted a report on the postal route: The report fills two columns of the Cross. The report makes comparisons between Wellington and Auckland harbors, and the diatanee of each from Honolulu, concluding that the mail can be delivered in Auckland and transhipped to Manukau, so as to arrive in Wellington as soon as if it proceeded direct. It proposes a branch steamer to proceed southward from Wellington to Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and Bluff, and that a second boat take the mails from Wellington to Picton, Nelson, Hokitika, and the mails from Napier by a branch boat from Auckland or Wellington. The report speaks of Auckland's connection with Sydney, and says the route to Auckland requires a smaller subsidy because of its greater commercial importance. It recommends a monthly instead of a twenty-eight days' , service. , Statistics are appended. At the Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, 12th inst., Mary Ann M'Coy was brought to trial •, on the charge - of haying, on or about the 25th > day of June last, feloniously attempted to poison One John Eveleigh, a settler at Groper's Bush, near Riverton. The court was crowded during ■• the hearing of the case, which occupied the whole . day. . Mr T. M. Macdonald prosecuted, and Mr F. W. Wade defended. A large number of witnesses were examined, the principal criminatory . evidence being given by the prosecutor, John Eveleigh, and his brother James. The facts of the case were briefly that, on the day in question, John Eveleigh, on returning to his hut, found the prisoner in it. Shortly after her leaving it, the two brothers proceeded to prepare their supper, and in doing so discovered that in the billy they used for making tea, and which had then some cold tea in it, there was some white substance floating about, and also lying in considerable quantity at the bottom. This substance was afterwards analysed, and proved to be arsenic, and the question of course was how it got there, the presumption being that accused, through-ill-will to Eveleigh, with whom she had cohabited for a long period, but had latterly- lived apart, had. placed it there on her surreptitious visit to the hut. Evidence was produced to show that the accused had, some three months previously, become possessed of a considerable quantity of arsenic. Mr Wade, in his defence, pointed out forcibly several material discrepancies in the evidence of the two brothers ; showed that James Eveleigh had a confirmed antipathy to Mrs M'Coy, . and the connection between her and his brother, and suggested the probability of the affair of the arsenic jfeeing a scheme concocted by one or both of the Eveleighß for getting quit of the prisoner altogether. He reserved exculpatory, evidence for another place, if the Bench held a prima facie case to be made out, but submitted that the accusation had not been sustained, and that the case should be dismissed. His Worship was quite clear that it was his duty to send the case to trial. If the Eveleighs were witnesses of truth j -there was a strong presumption of the prisoner's guilt, and the question of their credibility was a very proper one for the consideration of a jury. Prisoner was committed for trial at the next session of the Supreme Court, which opens on Monday next. .""*' ' • ' . At the sale of the accumulated funds of the Invercargill Building, Land, and Investment* •Society,' on Wednesday evening, 13th inst., ,£9OO was taken up by six purchasers, at premiums varying from £1 2s to £4 6s j the average being about £4 4s 6d. One marked feature of the sale is the uniformity in the premiums obtained, showing a much healthier and less speculative demand for money than was observable at the two preoeding sales. . An . accident, unhappily with fatal result, occurred in the estuary on Wednesday last, 13th. The lighter Brothers was beating down to sea iv the afternoon. Off Bushy Point she was being laid on another tack, when the two men working the sails observed from the movements of the vessel that.' something was wrong. ' ; On looking round, they saw. that the master, Robert Reid, who had been steering, had disappeared,- and on going back discovered him in the - water. The anchor -was immediately let go, and the boat lowered, but by the time they rowed to the scene of the accident, the unfortunate; man had sunk, • his coat only, of which he had probably divested himself in his' struggles," being found floating. The vessel was brought back to the wharf. Next morning, Thursday, two boats, one furnished by the police, and the. other by tbe Oddfellbwsf-*of which fraternity deceased Was a member — dragged the river, but the body was not brought iup. Deceased, we understand, leaves a widow and family at Dunedin. " ; •
At the Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, the 13th, M. M'Neill sued J. R. Davies for the sum of £78 ss, damages for sheep destroyed by dogs. The case was a lengthy one, and the evidence conflicting, especially as to the value of the sheep*- Judgment for plaintiff for £15, the value of 30 sheep killed, at 10s each, and costs, £13 10s. The balance of the sura claimed, put down as jfnjury sustained through the chasing and scattering of the flock, was not allowed. ;_ A digest of the.balanoa-sheela 0(^36.g01d mining companies at the Thames -shows that calls, have been made of £38,000; of dividends paid," . £35,000; and cash in hand, £2000.
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Southland Times, Issue 1279, 15 July 1870, Page 2
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