TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1939, 5 September 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Welcome rains are reported to have fallen at Dunedin and Hokitika on Monday and Tuesday. Heavy rain set in at He! son on Tuesday afternoon, The rain was badly needed. Mrs A. J. Jenkins, who arrived at Nelson in the Lord Auckland in 1842, died on Tuesday, aged 74.

The return from the Welman dredger at Waipapa Point, Otago, is 98 ozs of amalgam for sir days’ work. At the Supreme Court, Napier, on Monday, after a trial extending over five days, Makaore was found guilty of the murder of Eobert Gollan and sentenced to death.

At the inquest at Gisborne on th e body of an old man, William Davy, a station hand, the evidence went t° show that deceased had been drunk and took a small dose of Eough Eats to take away the effects of his carouse.

At the Wanganui Police Court on Tuesday Thomas Naughton, aims McNaughton, of Bulls, was charged with having, on August 27th, abducted an unmarried girl named Augusta Hass, aged 15 years, contrary to the will of her father and mother.

Robert McCready was committed for trial at Christchurch on Monday on a charge of assaulting and maliciously injuring with a razor Harriet Eeilly, a married woman with whom he had cohabited nine years, but quarrelled and separated from her on Saturday week. At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Monday, F. C. Dean, the defaulting town clerk of Thames Borough, pleaded guilty to embezzlement, and was sentenced to four years, Ryan, for damaging property at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, was sentenced to twelve mouths’ imprisonment.

At the Supreme Court, Napier, on Tuesday, Joseph Roberts, brother of Jonathan Roberts, was acquitted on a charge of stealing money, the property of his mate, August Weigner. He was also found not guilty of cattle stealing. So far, out of seven cases there have been sis acquittals. In several cases the evidence was very strong, At a meeting of the shareholders of the Big Beach Dredging Company, Otago, it was resolved to authorise the directors to sell the whole of the claims to a new company, to be formed with an increased capital, to put on four more dredges on the claim, and in order to associate Sew Hoy’s name with the claim, it was decided that the new company should be called Sew Hoy’s Big Beach Goldmining Company. _ An inquest was held under peculiar circumstances at Napier on Tuesday evening. A single girl was three months ago married to a labourer named Kyle. About nine or ten days since she was taken ill, and told her husband that she had had a miscarriage. Subsequently appearances led tne woman who was attending her to suspect something more, and information was finally given to the police. Detective Grace taxed her with having given birth to a child. She strenuously denied this at first, but on Grace proceeding to search, she got her husband out of the room and then- told the detective that the child was hanging in a bag on a nail covered by dresses. He found the body as described with some marks on it. After preliminary evidence had been taken, the inquest was adjourned until the 12th instant.