TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1534, 20 July 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the Supreme Court, Wellingtou, on Friday morning John O’Brien for larceny was sentenced to five years hard labor, the sentence te run concurrently with one of fire years now being served by him, twelve months of which has expired. In thw second charge of embezzlement against Gisborne, the town clerk of Petone, the jury at midnight intimated they were unable to agree, and were locked up for the night. On Friday afternoon at Auckland a young woman named May Dnke, daughter of Mr J. S.-Duke, Deputy Registrar of Votes, was found suffering from symptoms of poisoning. An emetic was promptly given her with satisfactory results. Drs Walker and Beer* applied the usual remedies. Both gentlemen pronounced the girl to be suffering from chloroform poisoning. -Miss Duke is a barmaid at tha -Occidental Hotel. The family is well known in Auckland. She was married to Mr Chalmers, but Hie parties are separate. She is now-put. of danger. She is a sister of Mrs Haifa, the actress.

At Auckland on Saturday, Miss Price, cut her throat, but the Hospital Surgeon enter:.. iuo ho; es of her recovery. Thomas Chalmers, husband of the barmaid (Misa Duke), who attempted suicide at Auckland on Friday, was arrested on Saturday on a charge of forging and uttering a cheque on the Colonial Bank. -

It is aaid that Sir Julius Yogel h»i ieatracted Mr W. T. L. Tr»tera, solicitor, to issue writs again st both the New Zee* land Times and the Evening’ Press lot libel contained in recent articles published in their columns in regard to the District Railways Debentures Committee’s Report. In e»cli case the damages are laid at £SOOO.

A largely attended meeting ;of share* holders in the Champion Coppfer Company, was held at Nelson on Friday night, the object of which was to consider a means by which the working of the mine might be carried on. It was resolved that a new company be formed with the object of taking over the old Champion Company’s mine. The scheme is; to float • new company with a capital of, £20,000, share holders in the old company to become shareholders in the new-company to the extent of the have to pay under HqdidM^ii jkfloNfKP*

sent company. A firm at Dunedin complain that 'cawe received by direct steamer (cargo which was transhipped from the North) have been rifled of their contents in transit* pieces of iron being substituted. At the Supreme Court, Wellington, oil Saturday morning the jury, which bad been locked up since 6 o’clock on Friday night brought in a verdict of guilty of larceny against John Gibson, and the prisoner was remanded for sentence. The jury were discharged, and' owing.to the number excused from 1 attendance the panel was so much reduced that it was thought inexpedient to go on with' the last case on the calendar, and the court adjourned until Monday. The Chief Justice expressed the opinion that an amendment in the Act giving the judge discretionary power to discharge a jury j Alter being locked up three or four hourajyben there was no chance of their agreeing would be a step in the right direction. The atallioo, Captivator, purchased by the New Zealand Stud/ Company in Sydney, arrived at Auckland by the Manapouri. A party of natives searching at Wairoe found on a hill above the village the ruin of a where, in which , were the remains of tea bodies of Maoris.

Andrew Sturgeon, » .farmer, dropped dead in the Globe Hotel:; at Pakakore, Auckland.

A young man named Robert Wilby, employed in-Luke and Son’s foundry, Wellington, was seriously .injured by* casting falling on him. It is feared ha has received concussion of the brain. The Christchurch. auctioneers art averse to Mr Seddon’s Auctioneers’ Bill.

A rich patch of gold is said to heva been discovered by J. itßbbertson at the Criffel diggings (Otago), under aoma overlying rock. It is understood that a cablegram wai received in Wellington on Thursday evening that Mr A. L. Levy had not arrived in Sydney by the steamer Hauroto, At the Supreme Court, Christchurch, oa Thursday,; Henry Field, on two chargsa of larceny, was sentenced to twslva months on each, the sentences to ran concurrently. William James Livingstone, on a charge of perjury, was found not guilty,.and discharged. Under the Justices of, the Peace Act, Mr Jaa. Ronald son, of Auckland, and Mr, Rudolph Friedlander, Ashburton, liave ceased to be justices of tbe peace. The barque Onyx sailed from Lyttelton on Thursday for Cambridge Gulf, taking twelve passengers for Kimberley goldfields.

The extraordinary ewe, in which W, H. Messenger instituted a prosecution against his wife for stealing his good*, came on again at the Resident. Magistrate’* Court, Christchurch, on Thursday. Mf Beethom, considering the circumstance* of the case, that the husband ha,d recently been brought back from- ■Australia on « charge of wife desertion, which it had been deemed expedient not to go on with because bis wife could not legally ghr* evidence against him, positively declined to issue a warrant for the apprehension of Mrs Messenger, who. is in Auckland, and told the informant could apply to the Supreme Court for a man* damns if he liked.

The Auckland City Council last Thun* day night authorised the prosecution *f * butcher who sold cancerous- beef fof human food. An- enquiry made by th* Botchers’ Association shows the diseased animal was bought at the salfcyards £ot 30s. B wae slaughtered at Abbot’s faint, formally condemned, then taken to k butcher’s simp*.and then Isold to another butcher for 12a per cwt. The latter find* ing it unfit for consumption, returned it, when it was f sent to thp boiling dowi establishment.