TELEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4733, 7 October 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.]

Wellington, This day.

The estate of the late Henry Hammers, of Hawke's Bay, has been finally certified at £349 17s 6d.

Messrs Steward and Co., owners of the barque Kentish Lhss, which took diggers to Cambridge Gulf, have received a cable from the captain stating that the vessel left Wyndham for Melbourne and Wellington on the 29th instant, with a large number of men who are returning from the field. The police have not found any evidence of Hall or Houston buying poison here. Application was made again to all the officials and Ministers this morning who could possibly know anything about the result of the analysis of Captain Cain's body, but one and all either professed ignorance or their inability to say anything. Enough, however, leaked out to show there is some truth in the rumor of antimony being found, but up to the present it is impossible to got details. The N.Z. 'limes says they obtained information upon enquiry, and that it is perfectly correct, though the analysts were bound to secrecy. At a Cabinet meeting it was decided to recommend the Government to sanction tho release of P. K. Watty, undergoing a sentence of five years for forgery, on January 1, when he will have served about half his time. Watty has shown exemplary conduct in gaol, where he has rendered considerable assistance to the authorities.

The flocks on the Clarence runs, in the Kaikoura district, whioh have been taken over by tho Government under- the Scab Act, are coming in clean. Five or six thousand sheep have recently beon dipped. The Sheep Conference at Sydney is now considering regulations for dealing with foreign sheep and cattle, and expect to finish on Friday. Mr McKenzie was not allowed to vote.

The case of Peat, who was acquitted on on a charge of larceny as a bailee without a stain on his character, has drawn attention to the fact that there is no provision in tho First Offenders Act for extending its advantages to men who have previously been honorably acquitted, Blenheim, This day.

Daniel Wilson, a settler at Upper Pelorus Valley, and a member of the Road Board, shot hiragelf in tho forehead torday.

Mr J. M. Hutcheson, J.P., was presented yesterday, on his seventieth birthday, with an illuminated address and a purse of fifty sovereigns, in recognition of his services as ono of the oldest members and senior Elder of the Presbyterian Church. Auckland, This day. Geo. Harcourt, late mine manager at the Thames, was sentenced at the Supreme Court this morning to twelve months' hard labor for embezzlement, to which ho pleaded guilty. Henry Williams, for the larceny of pig iron, got six months' hard labor.

Tho Lumpers' Union yesterday pfttrnoon ordered a strike of the men working for Captain Nearing, aud the stevedore discharging the cargo of the ship Waitangi. The reason alleged is that Nearing was employing non-Union men discharging the barque Prince Albert. Nearing alleges he accepted the assistance of the Prince Albert's crew with the consent of the Lumpers' Union. The S.S. Company had yesterday to engage non-Union men, as the members of jthe Lumpers' Union declined work. Dunedin, This day.

A five-roomed house at Rothesay, owned by Mr S. Bolton, was destroyed by fire this morning. Insurance—£lso in the South British office.

Gisborne, This day, An elderly man named John Finlayson, who has been missing for the past week, was found drowned in tho river this morning. Tho deceased was well known and respected. He was known to be possessed of considerable means, and had property here and down South. He is supposed to have committed suicide, as he had beon in a depressed state for some time past. He lived by himself. In the house three £1 notes were found on the table, covered by a billy. CnßiSTcnuiiCH, This day. The Wellington correspondent of the Press states that the Defence fcas informed him that the rumor lib' previausly telegraphed,' that Captain Cain's remains were saturated with antimony, was quite true.

For the Holidays. Choice Millinery, Mantlos, Jackets." New Costumes. A grand display of Fashionable Sunshades at Neal and Close's. Inspection invited.