TELEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4660, 14 July 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PES PBHBS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, This day,

The Bishop of Madagascar left for Auckland via the East Coast in the steamer Australia last night. ; Judge Richmond gave decision this morning in the case against the Cook Licensing Committee. He refused to grant a mandamus, holding the decision of the Licensing Committee was final. Aucexaud, This day.

The Eev. J. S. Smalley, Special Evangelist, last night closed a most successful series of meetings in Pitt-street Weeleyan Church. The proceedings have been of the nature of a religious revival. Forty-seven passengers have been booked here for Kamberley per steamer Tamsui. At the Polioe Court to-day Robert Leary, for stealing building timber, was sentenced to six months' hard labor. The prisoner has already spent fourteen years in gaol. The defence in the Potrel case was opened this morning. Mr Cotter is giving a lengthy and lucid address on behalf of the prisonors, pointing out the discrepancies and exaggerations in the evidence. CniusTCiiracH, This day.

The Orphanage Committee reported today, on enquiry into the alleged cruelty to a child by washing him in the open air on a cold -wet day, they consider the method of cleansing him adopted was injurious, but that no ultimate harm resulted, and that the whole matter was much exaggerated by the persons making the complaint. At 7 a.m. to-day a cottage at St. Albans, owned by the Eev. Mr JJolomore, and occupied by Mr Witfield, traffic foreman of the Tramway Company, -was burned down. Insurances—House, £100 in the Standard office; furniture, £SO in the National office. The cause is supposed to-have been accidental,