Christchurch, Tuesday,

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1368, 7 April 1881, Page 3

Christchurch, Tuesday,

The results of yesterday's proceedings at the Supreme Court are : — Daniel Phillips, illegally pawning,' one day's imprisonment ; Maurice Fitzpatrick, larceny, six months' hard ladour ; Edward Longmoore, larceny in a dwelling, twelve months; George Douglas, larceny, three years' penal servitude ; Edward Wells, larceny, six months ; Henry Jackson, damaging a threshing machine, nine months. Gibson will be tried forKerison's murder on "Wednesday. Wednesday. , A shipment of nine tons of cheese is being sent home by ttye farjners on Banks Peninsula by the ship Orari. Duncan has telegraphed to White, of Mercury Bay, that he cannot make satisfactory business arrangements for the sculling match for the championship of New Zealand, At the Supreme Court, tlobt. Wyatt, for malicious injury to agricultural machinery, |he property of a former employer, ■was sentenced to 'nine months. John Beaufield, for shooting, at John jSpring with intent to murder, to ten years' servitude. The prisoner on leaving the dock remarked that before he had been there a year they would see the downfall of the Crown of England. Peter Donnelly, for obtaining moneyyundec-f als.e pretences, wps sentenced to sik months* " hard labourV The reve-J lations th^at.were expected in the stuoting ,caae— Spring-Beanfield — didnoi; come out. Beau'fleld was undefended/ antf .attempted litjtle^orj no defence. ,He put a,,fe,w ques- ' tions to Spring about attempting to poison him, which were met by a flat denial. It I was stated, that the prisqner,]iad shown no signs or insanity while in gaol, la ut Superintendent Broham said the supposition was that on the point of; hij Trife'a infi- , delity he had been insane frqnythe beginning of his married life.