TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2940, 3 July 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, July 2. The Committee of the Auckland Financial Reform Association met this morning to consider the recent statement of the Premier in the House" that the report of the Association bristled with misstatements, A letter in reply to Sir Harry Atkinson was adopted, and will be forwarded to the Premier, ' The mourners of tho Maori football team arrived to-day by the To Anau, and were cordially greeted by tho local players. At the inquest on tho remains of Mrs Croot, who had used the Canadian doctor's,' .medicine, a verdict was returned of deathifrom natural causes,

i'. The barque Coulnayce, which loft 'hera-on 11th ultimo, for Lisbon, has put back in a leaky condition, On her recent visit here the Coulnayce was en route from Tonga to Marseilles with cargo, and having beeu found in a dangerous condition, she put in here for repairs. The, vessel was partly unloaded and placed in the dock, but very little in the way of repairing was done to her, aud when about 1100 miles of her journey to, Lisbon had been traversed she again liad to pat back.

DeathofanM.H.E. Christchubch, Tuesday; Mr W. P. Pearson, M.H.R. for Ashley, died this-morning. Supreme Court. Wellington, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court, Henry Fuller, for receiving stolen property was sentenced to three years. Thomas liiwarfc pleaded guilty to horse stealing and was sentenced to 12 months. A boy named Alepander MoMinn who pleaded guilty to stealing a diamond ring will be brought up to-morrow for sentence. George Ewart, for larceny of a, gun was acquitted. : The session ia expected to conclude to-morrow. • | Dumedin, July 2, At the Criminal Sessions', Andrew Frederickson got three years for forgery.; John Taylor and Andrew Eeid for Iwrw stealing wore wvioied, and

ordered to come up for sehtence'wlien called upon'; Elizabeth Deau was aoquitted on a obarge of forging aiid uttering a post office : savings bank deposit .'receipt; ■[ Robert , McPhorson pleaded guilty: to 'stealing a watch, and was sentenced to i month's hard labor, In the case of Francis 0. Loinbrade, charged with unlawfully wounding, the jury returned a verdict that the wound was inflioted in self defence and he was acquitted. CHRtsTOHuitcH, July 2. The supreme Court crimiual sittings opened to-day before Mr Justice Ward, who congratulated the Grand Jury on the lightness of the Calender, and expressed his sense of the loss sustained by the Colony through the death of Mr Justice Johnston. Esther Matilda Everett pleaded guilty to forging a cheque for £ll on the Colonial Bank, The Probation Officer's report was very favorable, and she was placed on probation for 12 months. William Fleming, for arson, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labor; George Alexander, and William Anderson, for burglary, two years' hard labor; John Nimon, for burglary three years' penal servitude; Charlos James Eacott charged with embezzlement from the Lyttoltou Times Company, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years' probation, and to refund the amount embezzled, LllO, and to pay the expenses of the prosecution, LBl. John Cocltbead pleaded guilty to two charges ofhousebrcakingk Sentence was deferred'tp Wednesday. True Bills were found in all cases on the calender. The trial of Henley for shooting at Peter Sinclair at Holieston, is fixed lor Wednesday. ."