SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 453, 13 April 1875, Page 2

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, batarday. From the Christ church correspondent of the ' Echo " we leara that a bill has passed the Pro.iaciJtl C^iiuci. giving the liispt'c.or of k>hee, (renter powers as to the arbitrary rcinov.il o scabby sheep. — The Rev Charles Clark has sailed for Wellington. — The repuit of the Funeral Reform Association has been iuade public. It btates that a funeral could be hid for £4 10s. .The nek upon which the meeting split was the mourning costume. The general feeling w>»s that it should be left to themselves ; but it was ultimately decided to postpone any decision in the mattei for the present.

Greymouth, Sunday. Mr Delanpy, the \Wlihigiui jied*stiian, ran against time a distance of ten miles, in one hour. The ground "N^id very rough. The distance was accomplished vi s&inin. 43sec.

_ Christclmrch, Saturday. The murder case was concluded to-day. The folowing is j«\iigest of the case in question : The murdered girlVndio resited in Cham pier's Bay, with her parents, came intoTiyVelton to get tickets at the Colonist Hall for the school picnic. Shortly after five o'clock in the evening the prisoner was seen with the girl by two persons standing at the Albion Hotel. He spoke to u person standing there, leaving the girl to go on by herself. Afterwards ho was seen to overtake the girl and to proceed with her towards Oxford-street. Breraner was next seen coming from the g<>vse hedge, where the body was found, with marks of blood on him, and he was seen brushing his clothes, apparently to get rid of some d"st. The next trace found of him was just before the starting of the train for Christchurch, when he was noticed to have blood on" him, and also in th<± train, by those in he carriage. It was lemarked about his getting in the state he was in, when he said he had been killing a sheep. This was about six p.tfrVltfid after the train had gone the body of the-aWdrt^ed girl was found by two boys in a hole in the gorse-hedge in the locality towards which the prisoner and girl were seen going. The blood on tf^jtfi^ner's clothes was microscopically examined ,-canV found to be blood of some animal which sucßlecrets young, but it could not be sworn to as humon Wood. After his arrest, a number of spots were found on the prisoner's legs The prisoner on being questioned said they were only pimples, and that no gorse prickles could be found on him ; but, medical examination having been mode, a number of gorse prickles were found where the skin was maiked. The prisoner, when arrested, denied having had a knife on the day of the murder, but two witnesses swore to having seen the pocket knife in his possession that day, and one indentitied the knife which was found in the coal tub on the vessel where the prisoner whs arrested as the knife they saw. The Crown Prosecutor made an able address to the jury. Mr Joynt, the prisoner's counsel, in addressing the jury, argued that the girl seen in the prisoner's company, just before the murder was committed, was not satisfactorily identified as the deceased girl, and that identification of the prisoner with the man seen coming from the scene of the murder, soon after the murder must have been committed, was not sufficiently clear to justify the jury in taking away prisoner's life. The knife was not perfectly identified, and there was a discrepancy in the evidence as to the prisoner's clothes. He himself was not proved to have been thoroughly reco^ised as the mm who came from the paddock w4&re>the girl was afterwards found. His Honor having summed up, the jury retiied for twelve minutes, and returning in to court, announced a verdict of guilty. His Honor assumed the black cap, find pas^r^ sentence of death. The prisoner was then removed.