STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1796, 5 October 1874, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

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Auckland, This day. At the Police Court, Jackson was committed for trial for- sliootiug at the Jioyal George Hotel. No milling sale to-day.' Sellers—Caledonian, £6. ■„.,,. v . At the opening of (lie criminal session! this morniiiji, Judge Aruey delivered a charge congratulating the jury on the fact of only ten cases being <>h the calendar. He lamented the charge of murder, and the preponderance of offences against the person. There were few cases demanding any special direction*; from, the Court. There were five offences Jgainst property, of these two were committed by persons not belonging ,to the regular body of settlers, and the circumstances of the other three did not warrant the conclu-. sion that there was any tendency to crime among the settlers. The reat of the charge was occupied by details of the three charges and special directions. When asking a witness to speak upT the Chief Justice said a juryman had asked to be excused on the ground of deafness, but Ie had not granted his request, nor had he himself thought it necessary to resign his position because he was somewhat hard of hearing. (This remark ii taken by some as a contradiction of the reports current about Arney's intended resignation.) ■ . ; Sailed: Ehcßbe. . Wellington, This Day. Mrs. Vogel and family will proceed by the Otago on her next trip to Melbourne. The Hew Zealand Steam Snipping Company have decided not to break up their fleet of steamers. They hare sent home for specifications and estimates for putting new compound engines into the Taranaki and Wellington, but if the work can be done reasonably in this colony they will have it done here. :

Poet Chalmers, Sunday. The Christain McAusland was towed in yesterday. She has 356 souls, equal to 283 J adults on board; There were seven deaths on the wayr—all children—also, three births. One seaman died from consumption; one was lost orerboard; he fell from the main royal yard, the ship going thirteen knots. The diseases were only whooping cough and chicken pox.

Dttnedibt, Saturday. A servants' home has been fairly established. A meeting held yesterday decided that its establishment was highly necessary, and a committee was formed to frame rules. Bishop Neville and Archdeacon Edwards spoke very strongly on the bad management of several registry offices here. The former said if the law on the point would enable him, he would himself more in the matter against the keepers. He suggested the attachment to the refuge of a home character which could not be impugned. 2Mr. Creighton was entertained at dinner here" yesterday by -the employees of the Guardian, and presented with a handsome graphoscope. . .; ■ : DuKKWjf, Mbnday. Captain Duncan, and the chief officer of the Christian McAuslaM were assaulted by four seamen while crossing the equator. The" passengers prevented a mutiny. The mutineers will be given into custody. Dodd, the second mate of the Oneco, was charged, on Saturday, at Port Chalmers, with the murder of one of the seamen on the passage from New York. The charge was adjourned till Thursday. The criminal session commenced to-day — eight prisoners for trial.

Chbistchubch, This day. The Press this morning contains th» following, paragraph:—The correspondent who sent us a communication lately describing the capture of two moas has forwarded another letter, which reports the birds have escaped. That is jast what we expected to hear. ' Mr. E. M. M. Smith may find it very easy to catch '• mots somewhere near Browning's Pmi, '*' but the difficulty is to bring them to Christchurch or to some inhabited region, and we feel pretty sure he will nerer succeed in accomplishing that.