Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2148, 30 April 1897, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

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[By Telegraph.]

C«HIBTOHDKOH, APRIL 29

The departure of tho Uuahine with the rominßont for London and .th" I Biwley teatti bad to be postponed im'il '2 a.m. to-morrow owing to the poor tide. T-aere was a large gathering on the , who were heartily disappointed. MURDER A.T AMBrtRLIf. Not a great desl can be added to the details of the murder at Amberiy, ihe circumstances surrounding the crime being of a meagre description. Top spot" whore the body was found is hardly more than half » mile from the towushi}», and bo-side one of the main roadfl leading from the township to Uangiora. Beside the road on Mr Douglas' property there is a long plantation of pine >reen devoid of undergrowth. Next the road there is an open wire fence, and about half a chain inside this runs a gorse fpuce, which had be>n recently trimmed. Between ;he fines there is a footpath, and it. is cxMwnely likely that the ;*irl was walking ailong this when iittacked. The girl was tall and deliciiu , , nod it is supposed that when I she whs attacked by the murderer, whose ' ebjVct was evidently outrage, she I fainted and was completely at bis mercy. This supposition was borne out by the fact that there waa no blood on her hands. When the body was found the clo'hes were disarranged, and the upper part was covered with gorse, which bad been trimmed from the fence A younjr man named William Divan, who was working about three hundred yards from the spot »t the time tlv? crime was supposed to have been commuted, hwird no sonnd. This morning luapoctor Brohaw, and Detectives lienjatnin, Maddern Mild Warsack, and Oonstablaa Koche and Johnston made a thorough efliuch of tho spot, in the hope of finding , evidence, bur, were not able to di-cover anything of importance. At noon, Dr. H'zhenry made sin examination of the body of the tirtim, and the injuries found showed that, the murder bad bee. , ) ot a fiendish unit determined character. No less ih in eiyht wounds wen , found, foil ,- being in if/c throat : the chief wound in the thro«l was three inches in length. Tii-r'e was a stab three -quarters of an inch iv width over the region of the henrt. The front of the girl's dress must bnve b-'en open when this stab was uijvJ<?, as the cut was only through her corsets and undor-liuen. There wore clfar evidences, too, that the victim h'vl be»n outraged, an I all tha appearances of 'ho b>dy showed that the crime hud of a most atrocious dhture. Hugh Frttß<*r t the man under arrest, was at half past one brought up before Mr W. S. Smith, J. P., and was charged with the wilful murder of Agnes Lawcock. On the application of Inspector Urcham, accused was remanded until 10 o'clock on Saturday morning.