TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XXV, Issue XXV, 6 January 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

fPER Prbs Agency.]

Wh-lingtox, January 4. The man charged v»th a murderous assault at the Hutt was brourht up on remand, and further evidence adjsneed. lie wns taken io the Hospital and Honfrented with Leedl. ancl Paul, wlio are; in a pitiable state. Leedle, who has seveift ghastly wound;;, was sensible and gave sSdenoe (unimportant) for a few minutes, jut then relapsed into unconsciousness. Had is quite insensible. The recovery of is quite hopeless. Young, the other victan, though noi out of danger, is slightly irijproving. One of the witnesses yesterday saw prisoner strike Leedle, then holtumed to mc, and I thought he waa goiiigjto make at mc. He was holding an axe wife, both handa over his head. I went rouud'thc corner of the whare. Prisoner did iiot follow, but returned to Leedle, wl« was lying on the ground. I heard severs! blows. It seemed to mc that some of tlii bones w 7 ere being crushed." Prisoner wai further remantled till next Monday. He has changed much since he was arrested, md seems lobe in abject fear or despair. Wairkapa, January 4. At this election at ttastertou, Featherstone, Greytown, and ik Scandinavian settlement, Mr Bunny pdled 280; Andrew, 155 ; Pharazyn, 115; an. Carter, 94. DuifiDiN, January 5. At the criminal sesions to-day, John Darcy, for bestiality, *ras sentenced to three years' penal servrbde ; Wm. Gregg, for indecent assault, thi verdict was not guilty ; Thomas Langljnds, two indictments, for embezzlemei, received three years, each Bentenee concurrent ; D. McMillan, for horse tealing, received six months. In the ease of Jenkins, charged with arson, Mr Chapman stated that the depositions had sot yet been filed. His Honor said the coroj'er was guilty of contempt of Court. Hi therefore considered it his duty to order a rule to issue to the coroner, tajling upon him to appear on the following day to show cause why he should tot be attached. The rule issued accordingly; In the Reideton manslaughter case, Andrew Black killed McEvoy, in a fight Oamaru, the Crown Prosecutor said thS there was not a doubt that it was only inconsequence of very great provocation from the deceased that prisoner eventually strucH the blow. A verdict of not guilty was retimed. At the Ciutha nomination to-day, the show of hands was—Mr Thomson, 8 ; Mr Moseley, 10 ; Sir J. Vogel, li Mr Moseley demanded a poll, which will fe taken on the 20th.