CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 September 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BT ,ELEOTRIO; TEIiEOR APH—OOPyRIOHI ':'•■■ : (RbOTBB's TEtEdRAMS.) ,"v..'i;'v>!(i September 20. At to-day'i-wooh auction, 10,400 bales Mere offered/'; Pricesv,were again steady, but thedemand'was notaotive. The crioket match at the Owl between the, Australian team and Shaw's Eleven, which visited the Colonies last year, was resuraed ; to-day,' when the visitors, with ?. .wickets : dbwn'and'3B runs to their orediti'cohtinn'ed their first innings, which closed for a total of 87. The Home team then went in for their second innings, and at the close iof, the day's play had lost 6 wioketa for 190.: ; (Received 11.30 a.m., September 22.) ' j; "*Z this day, 9 %m,- ; The Garden Palace, situated''in the inner dom'aini (he building'in which the new South- Wales international Exhibition of 1879 was'held, .has,' been totally destroyed" by jfir'e. The' conflagration brpkeoutatßo'clo'pk.this morning and is:still fagirij.'; •'Theisiglit of the burning building is moat grand, and, thousands of people.are how on. the-spot,- All efforts to save/the-palace have been without avail, and nothing can prevent its complete destruction. 'The; offices of branch'of the Lands Department, the Cehsus'qffic'esi' 'and; offices were m the building, and: it is feared that there will ; be; a;Be.riousJoß6 of official documents and other Government pro. ,'p?.rty.:v :; ;.,:.!;;•," ■:':.- ' ..'.;

(Received September 22,1.15 p.m.) ~",:•,•! " ; Mblbouene, this day. 'ArriVedj.this raorninig—The; steamship Rotomahaha from theilßlul. '.'■: •■■"!

Raceived Sept. 22, : 1.80 p.'ra;,'.' ; .•;••.. > :i '/ ';;•' •: Sydney, this day. illa.m.";AHthearohivesof the Mining Departmehti''the" ,;Ceh>us' office,, and Linnean ,; together with; .the National .flolliotion,,of minerals *iii :the technologioal.,ffiu's«utn, ; ihave been destroyed,at, thenar Jen, Palace. ; The' estimated:lossisKalf amillioriiiterling.! The 1 dome of>i>ha>building fell! with a'orash .twenty minutes after the fire broke out. The destrriction igjcornpleje. : : j: -, .

• Strikes? iihort^ ! , J PaH«on workmeniare npy very'frequent.;,:;Tn i tho first week of Jtme tbe^carpeniiert,:Jßhoemaker« ; and fliigar-refinera atcdbk work for.an adrance ■ ■■/■:■<: !,■' '■• Good underatandingß are. indißpenßibie in really good;; Colonial ; BootaWShde'B gnafarlteed to" wear,'; and ' no old bankraDt stoolis, call.atl(Bapp:& Harojßii v gß cash, ior'7 Uyionly.~Ai.TT. v / v x,

, i-THE; SPARGO CASE. •. '.'■ Their Messrs Wardell, W. Booth, arid B.;-Boys were occupied in the on Wedneiday pf a few. further case for about fiye honri, .Mr, Sandilantls in all the cases appeared for Sparge, and Mr Gray for Mrs Bpnrgp. and 'ftepwan.,,,J.he.gr.eater part of the evidence was totally infit for publication, owing to. its foulness and' blasphemy. ~ ...,.-... ■ Mrs Spargo was first arraigned, at the instance of her husband, \ for -using abusive and obscene language in the ; public- street. Tho, case ■ was dismissed for want! of evidence,, the Court cautioning the defendant and others as to the language they used in the public street. Language was constantly used of such'a : nature as almost prohibited a • deoerit woman 1 walking abroad. This the Benoh t would not tolerate.j ■Publip- decepcy must,' be ob- L served, and if a well-substantiated case of a nature similar to (his we're' brought before the Court an,example would be: made. : ''"''"'■ ,/ '- A '"■ ; Spargo was theo.arwigned by, his wife, but!the charges fell through/owing to• au informality in the summons, "andanother, correctly laid, "was subae.fluently withdrawn. . ...... i Daniel Tremewan thou surrendered to his bail on a chargg of feloniously assaulting John Spargo, who deposed as follows:—On the 15th inst, he went to Tremewan's house to get his child's, clothes, which had not been civen over ; as, arranged ,by.,the ;.Court; Trbmewan oponed the door, and when he stated what ha wanted, said he did not know if he cmild have the clothes, and had better sea the Mrs—that, he believed, meant Mrs Spargo,- Witness oaid'he did not wish to speak to her: Defendant said he could not have the olothes, and witness said.he should have to apply to the E:M. for a warrant to .get them. Witness then turned on his heel ; tp walk away, hut hearing prisoner make a quick movement towards him, lie turned, and walked backwards towards, the public road, until after proceeding /some die* tance, he tripped and fell. Ashe tried to get up, lie saw a swingletree of a plough in the hands of Tremewan, and had only time to put up his hands to protect himself when he ; wa"s knocked down.' "When he came to himself, the prisoner was kicking him. He remembered nothing more until he got to Dr Watte'. Ho had felt stupid and been under the doctor's hands ever since. He did not see anyone but the prisoner and himself about. The witnesswas severely cross-examined by Mr Gray, who, however, failed to shako his evidence in any point, witness totally denying having first assaulted or used the -language referred to by Tremewan. In reply to the Court, the witness said he went to get the clothing as it had not .been left at Bpicer's, as arranged. He went to Mr Booth s before going to Tremewan's, and consulted him as to obtaining the clothes, and Mr Booth thought if he werit for them there 'would be no difficulty in obtaining- them; and on this advice he acted, He waß perfectly sober, and had gone straight from Mr Booth's house to Tremewan's.

DrWatls save confirmatory evidence as to the injury done, and his opinion wa3 that it had been done with a slick or bludgeon—perhaps such a weapon as the swinalotreo referred to, but not with a man's fist. Also that Spurgo was quite sober, but appeared confused from the hammering he had got. ,-; . Constable Bennett said, on he.lSth he went to Tremewan and told him he had a warrant for his arrest. He said he had hit Spargo with his hands, andasked him ifhe'wouldnot have done the same if a man came to his house nnd threatened him. Spicer wsb there and said," What about the'swiiigletroe' Dan." Prisoner said ''never mind that, this is all right." The day before the assault prisoner had oome to him wishing him to. arrest Spargo. but he had referred him to Mr Fredth. Tremewan was quite sober and was not injured at all. This concluded the aase for the prosecution, and the Bench.retired, On resumption His Worship stated that having carefully considered the evidence they did not consider it sufficient to support the indiolable offence,.' and the charge would therefore be dealt with at one of a common assault.

The prisoner, having consented to be sworn, deposed as follows, the court having directed the witnesses he named to be called by mui'to retire to the police station:— ■ : '

D. Tremewan: Spargo Mine to my house abont 5 o'clock on the day mentioned, Mrs Spargo was hanging, out some clothes on the line to dry, arid said, "There is some onecoming across Hie paddock, I think it is Jack." I said "I think tt is". He came up and I went to the door, a few seconds elapsed before he said anything then (the prisoner here deposed to certain approbious epithets made by the informant against Mrs Spargo.) I said, " keep quiet." He picked up a stone and & brick, and said he would pull my.b—y heart out. Knowing a swingle'tree was near the gate I took it up by one end, the other end resting on the ground, I said "If you don't drop those I'll drop you." He dropped them and I the swingle bar, and went to where he stood near the fence, and told him he had better go away quietly, he then drew out of hi* pocket a handkerchief knotted, with a large stone in it. He hit at me with it, the handkerchief twisted round my arm, and I got it from him.. He made a blow at me and I closed with and threw him. He got up and I threw him again, He was cursing awful all the time. Then he wanted me to go to Ray's-paddock and fight him there, I said all right, I'll follow you. He went on about two chains and I followed him. I told him to go homo quietly. He then took off his coat and waistcoat, and said he'd have me there. He came arid struck at me and I lat him. We both went to the ground, when there he had me by : the hair and the trousers with my whiskers in his month. When 1 got my whiskers out of his month, I atruck him in the face as hard as I could till he .let me go,. (Some more nice language was here reported as having passed.) I then told Spicer to saddle the horse and I would go to the policeman "and lay'a eharge against him. Nothing more occurred. :■-;•::•

On across-examination,' the 'prisoner mainly kept to his statement, and gavo further evidence as to the position of Mrs Spargo during the fray. . GoDskncQ Melina Spargo and John Bpicer repeated the prisoner's evidence almost too correctly, and the ( Bench retired and: were absontfor about an hour, when llle followingjudgment .wasgiven: —Having 'regard to' the contradictory evidence.giyen, the Court had .arrived at the conclusion that no confidence could be placed in; that adduced on behalf of the defence. Tt must adopt the plaintiff's .view of the case.! The assault m °f .»• [grave and serious character on a man who had.merely;gone,vto, jelaim.articles of clothing-belonging,to himself—in faot which' hVliad been invited to fetch as on the last case. before'- the Court the prisoner had said if Spargo wont for the clothes ho could have them,, alt Hough: on thei recommendationJof.the Court another course HaS to.V evidence given by Spargo •Tremewan'S''was bßrne.out by;Mr .Booth. He had gone there in| fact, on his advice. Taking the position of Tremewan with j

regard to Mrs Sparge, arid it was fully before the public that be had been living in adultery with her when Spargo was away at work, even if Spargo had used words which might nave been offensive to others, his conscience ought to have told him he should have some control over himcelf and make allowance. The tentense was that the prisoner undergo two .months' hard, labor, and : to. find se* ouritiei for six months, himself in ' £IOO, .and two sureties of e>ch.