SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1897, 21 August 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

—• (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.) _ .*— Napieb, Thursday, 7.30 p.m. The Church of England bazaar dosed last night. The result is an addition of £500 to the church building fund.-The Sawh's BayEerald supports the resolutions for the abolition of provincialism. Nelson, Thursday. In the Supreme Court the trial of Nuirnan Bousby for the murder of his wife, and William Millyard, as accessory after the fact, excited great interest, the hall being crowded both days. At the close of the case for the prosecution, the Jndge directed Millyard to be discharged. The jury, after an v hour's deliberation, found Bousby guilty of manslaughterand sentenced him to 15 years' transpor, tation. Oamaeu, Thursday. The public here unanimously approve Mr Steward's action, in supporting the Premier's resolutions regarding the abolition of the North proviuces. Btjnedin, Thursday. A public meeting will be held at Port Chalmers to-morrow re provincial abolition. Resolutions strengthen Macandrew's hands.—A sale of unreclaimed sections in the Bay yesterday, realised £16.000, the largest amount for one day's sale in the province. — Wiltshire, through excessive pressure of creditors, was compelled to give up his feat of walking a thouaand miles in a thousand hours, when he had almost completed the task.