WAR IN EGYPT!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1149, 11 August 1882, Page 2

WAR IN EGYPT!

(EEUTER'S ,TELEGKAMS.j;,;.» '' London August 8, England and France accept Italy's proposals about the Canal, The Lascars! at Bombay, who objected lo serve In .the English transports have resnmediworking : Eight spies have beeif andria. •.,•. ; • •'• l -'•'■'•■ l v Complaints are made in the English newspapers as ;to the Fronch disregard oi the British protests against JYenph-iiiter- ■ ferencd" '*"' J '"''"' , LoinJoNjiAngifsfek •*' Tl) irty-fjve teered for pervice jn Egypt; J After the 14th, the ; water in Alexandria will be" supplied to in habitants certain boars on alternate days, at ine rate ot twenty litres per head, ■ ■ It is reported that the Abysafqianifoops have assembled on the Egyptian frontier;' arid, aire prepared to co-opejat.e.j-withj theBritishjluipingby this a. ..seapbrt,,. ' ' \ '■ . ~ '"':,','"''..-jl '■ A'thkns, Auguet'B. ; ' Artftj, Jwhich wa,Brei:enjipepdpjepya(jK«k.tr« > opß r 4B "within 1 ibe' cjjde'd territory, f.•,- >j■ M > r J.*! I At Philadelphia 23 ;u»jjs>os"£ j people'aye.raising funds', for assistance of Arnbi, f iGreecevSiiJl give its decision to the Con.ference .to-morrow, •' • The! Greek haveentertsd iDto*contr«d(s for building several nej|<tf>

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'!; J. 0, Ingram v J. Bwington.—Allowi iig-'goats" to'wandef at'largft ::: N6'appear-' Itnc^pf'the.defetidant. 'mill Worship: Do you call goata cattle ? .they are jrtsluttediiir 'the Bcnedule of«m'Bll'cattle. v O''. '; The Court V You are right.....„' : Mr Ingram said be had> been instructed to take proceedings, and proved thaf jhov had BB.epijthe'goaU straying'bimßelf. :,f- ---. fheCorjrt inflioted aVfineVof KlOs and costs. I •' - : Same v,T-, Dnwn.'; Allowing & sow 'to,, wander at larger No -appearance of-de-' fendant, Fined 10sandoosta."" "•■' i -l

W. P.j Fellmgham'v 1 ;Bei'kett^Debt ! st r l9s Bd. No appearance .of either /party, case adjourned, ' V; ''' ■''• i '*" lut M W. A.T,.But,tpn>. Debt £4 10a. No. appearance "of either party, case adjourned.• - / (f\ .-. I • i'ijTHS OHEQtB'STBAIINaOiSE; ; li''W,H, 'ißeetlmttv tfi; LifeofTaiias Liddle— | h|idle, , and., three cheques., ',' C '"";"' ,'.■.'' '"''''"'. .', B^jsn)iB t cbtidnbied.tbe' cai# for tlie prtjaeoution. deposed:lam aißta--tibn'holjjy, residing at Masterton/ -tarn an ■ '.bwner,ot; a Btation called Stoueleigh near ,tbe',Waingawa. I know the prisoner by' ttfiejnameofXiddle. w '.*H'f emiploy fotaeVeral imontba' ; at a' ; pound a .weekand living inthe house at tho station; He waa'appointed time keeper to the men. Several tiraea I have;;h)ft' him for the men, <( on : Friday''th'e 7 28 th -of ,he;reported the'time of the''mAn. : "Ud-tKe "following mprning.l .told him ,1 would leaye'lhe bh'eques With tHo-boy aV the bouaejat BtobeleighV ''He''said li f tWJBh you would put tlietn; in a aealedienvelope," and I did bo The envelope produced isithexinennwhich I put the" ehetjuesV'' The-i'three cheques producedwere in ; the'"-'envelope, sigptjd,., t W,Valid 6 ' H. niJ ßeethami ; and; •Vera of (he value they represented. On Tuesday mgrning } | met the boy, whq. .said Lj,ddle'haa no't been 'seen since. Siiii)r;' dkyj-nighti I called 'all'the men torgetner at Stoneleißhy_and/asked them.i if they had been paid, that three; cheques which 1 had placed in the ,enyelbpe, had given to the men-,, ir /To the; Ootirt: 1 had previously paid' i\k me'h r by cheques: through hirnVj' Ileft ten' cheques and he paid seven and* r'etaiiie'd three. Toi acobunV for'-riot 'paying these ,thre'e i oneque3 he wrote a note aigning my, irame tpii.i

•* To'-Deiecti'e Beojamin,; the nnte produced is notiu my handwriting or written ], hy my authority. "The prisoner wa'a not mariager'c'of .the <.atattnn. nor was .his spay .intoasedi ] Be/"waa. ; requested!;'to] %itp''the time":of the acrub- outters as : he; lived in the house and'could: write.He hud a riglit to ride "a horse in my service toMasterton or to the store Ht Carterton. He expressed a desire tq have permanent' employment on the .place and bjfiiig hit wife tip. He had no Vithoi'ity.to takejthe saddle and bridle to Prbo'garopga, whioh ib sixty or seventy miles away,; The Saddle and bridle were' worth about Jo 12s, I could not identify them. I laid an information against Lidttle on the Ist of August, and telegraphed to myjpker to atop the chequea. •*'((sot;,the!(|ourt.) "'Prisoner had distinot directions'from me aa to what he was to dowiththejoheques. The prisoner asked no" queptions.' Charles Edward White, a lad of about eisteenj;deppsed.tljat he was a laborer in'the 'employ Beetham at. the Stoneleigh homestead, He .remembered 'Saturday, thje 29th-of July, jijiil that day Mr .Beetham'wrote several-cheques out, placedthem in an enVelope,.and addressed it'toLiddle, ,; He«'gave the envelope to i witnees to (jive toLiddle. Witness handed the envelope., to -the prisoner life same'; afternoon,., j An' hour later the prisoner Bhowed witness a note (produced), The prisoiie't called the attention] of tile] Court to the leading ohiiraoter of "the] Questions put by Detective Benjamin. ■ "'" Witness, .continued!' Prisone r; said Jaolcwould he wild at not receiving bia'cheque. '"iifterMds h£Md ; Ke 'was;going t'o'Car-: terton, and Yittießs'caught- the horse- for. him .and placed' Mr Beetham's skddle.aiYd, 'bridle on it'. '■> Prietjueivsaid he'.'shuald ,be' home late. Witness went' down to Car- . tl)u.half-pastfive train, aria inet the prisoner there/who told him' lo'tneet him again in an hour, Witness met him again, and was instructed to pro-, ceed j home : By'the' train,' ;.The. witness .saddle and bridle- whioh were prijauced'linyCoart, The when he lief t thVstatiun had,, on his best, clothes. Helleftjhis'wnrkinu clothes,be-, hind him,' Witness found in them a note tb Mr Beetham/atra whicjuyera;the ones produced in Court i ....Jphn, tjjertejson, in,' the: employ of Mr • Beetham knew' prisoner by' lhe name of Lidale. LiJdle was time-keeper,' and hadjon.'dne ocoas'sioh paid him by cheque, from Mr On the 28th of July he asked Liddla to get a cheque, ,fpr,hjmf9jc;£s,s ' * ' '■ . -The Oourt:! Was"prisoner acting aa your* agent or as Mr Beetham's &?ent in getting ;tho cheque,':j, , ' '' '* v "' ,> ,:] ; " 'Witness coijla not say."" On the-followi' ing day Liddle told hinubat Mr Beetham he ; dawii himselfarid' pay'him.[he money,' and that he was to come to the Homestead tojget it 1 . 1 ') On applyins'for the: said Ije had,ho|i jjot all.tbe. cheque's, and r]ead out a not? purporting to be from Mr Beßtbam. |.

. T)jie .-Prisoner: .May. I : ask ■ your; WorshipsKould not thodepositions be read over in my ■>•' ' >'''•'• ; s The/Court :i You appear an expert in "these matters. | Yoifare quite right. Thby will be read oyer before they are signed. ;X employee' gave" corroborative 'evidence to that given'by. the preceding tpjajnote from, Mr Beetham bein^read, by the prisoner, which said ths) fitg cheque book was' ex.hayßted and he -.would let;ljitn- have his. cheque on Monday, • ~ ■•; ,-y ,;;■■ Charles Keehall gave similar evidence as to the hbn | re'ceipt of his,: the. third, cheque. ••: \-,t>i-:;'- ■"■'■•' '- ; James Fellinghain, barman at tho Mar•qnil hb 'Nornianby. Hotel, Carterton, proved fhat he changed on the 29th of July the cheque, /or, 15 produced/,, He 'coald'no't'sa'y positively; who Handed the cheque to himi Heeaw Liddle'there that evenine, \. simM >.-;',-.;. : .-m.~.','.■.<■.: William Allen, Carterton, ,ca)leo), ; prgy,Bd that the prisoner visited his stofe cm the evening of the; 29th and. ourohased a coat, paying for it by a oheque /affair Beethatn's;for £3 3s. as produced, ' Frank Feist, ..storekeeper,. .Clareville. deposed that on the same evening prisoner fought a amounting to-a-littlj l °i?ri 8 ip,?9!s Wipaid for, thehiiby; ia cheque of Mr Beetbam's amounting'.to {Prisoner told witness'that' sj>llflTOd glverfif)!«''hi'm ttf cash.:; ■:>.■} : "'- Martelli, ledger jkeerjer,; of the 'Union Bank ¥M^,t6|,' l prove that the were,"6f :{]jie. value they vj^O,'" Constable Smith of the arrest of the prisoner a? Of6ngajohgaj ; Prisoner admitted that the MOliW ' \ .VtiVii • '■' j - '', l »:■.■ JHi-i■ni.sT.^o';- lA'>; 1 A'>;

(bridle wera the property of Mr ißeetbam' Witness aearohed the prisoner bu(.|ouud no money on him. : '■^'■'^MM This concladed the case (or the pW, ootion, ■:'■ ';':••': '['v:'^■)':^hi The'prisongt reserved his : defenoe, jafsll was duly com%itt«d:/br,trial,: '.*; '-i : -M Kl . ■.■■.■Wm:- : |fe.«.;.<- -km •;- . y :'|js W. H \||% MM ,^L„a[ Thevcase fofhorse Stealing was.;® 5 prooeeded with, and after the formal c idence of Ooiißtable, Smith, theproeecu; nr, \Sfid-the ladrW.hite:'W-been"takenr::the; prisoner wae committed for trial.