DUNEDIN.

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DUNEDIN.

This day The Wains were brought op for Bentence this morning. The male prisoner pleaded that the judge would be lenient on his wife's account. The Judge refused to reserve a point raised by Mr Deunistoo, saying that the medical cvi.

dence was absolutely clfar; addressing the prisoners he said he concurred in the verdict which had been returned, and whilst giving weight to the jury's recommendation to mercy, he pointed out that if the prisoners had, by their act, contemplated the childV death, they were guil'y of murder; he thought they were animated toward the unfortunate child by a wicked evil spirit. He sentenced each to seven years' penal servitude. In Minter's case the prisoner challenged seven, and the' Crown fiv>» jurors. Professor Black reporting on a niimbe* of samples of alcoholic liquors seized by the police in Dunedin and the country districts, says that brandies ranged from proof to 32 under ; whiskey from 10 to 27 under ; rum, from proof to 50 under ; gins, about 22 under. He complains of the undue prevalence of table salt in beers; nearly all the brandies had excessive quantities of tannin in them. The police intend prosecuting several hotelkeepers for adulteration.