Late Telegrams.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1819, 18 June 1897, Page 5

Late Telegrams.

(from our own correspondent.) Dunedin, June 17. At the laud Board, the application of G. Mcintosh for sections at Tiger Hill, at a yearly rental of sixpence per acre, was accepted.—T. Wilson's application to surrender a lease of the Leaning Rock was referred to the ranger to report. —The Board resolved to offer sections 12, Q and 10, Tarras, at 5s 5d per acre, A previous resolution referring to these sections was rescinded. The entries closed for the Winter Show yesterday, with nearly 1,000, about 356 more than last year. Everything denotes that the show will be a most successful one.

William Sheehan was yesterday sentenced to death at Christ church, for the murder of Agnes Lawcock. The divorce case Shirley v. Shirley was heard at "Wellington yesterday. The respondent is a Sergeant of Police. Mrs Shirley claimed judicial separation on the ground of cruelty, and respondent put in a counter claim for relief on the ground that at the lime of the marriage petitioner was married to one George Brown, in America. The Counsel for petitioner was no*j justified in resisting claim for nullity, and agreed to divorce. The costs were given against the petitioner, and the divorce was declared. The Defence Department refused permission to Pauling, a Permanent Artilleryman, to join the New Zealand football team. He is determined to go, and resigned. At the football match Wairarapa v. Manawatu yesterday, the latter were defeated by 16 to nil.

The' Frisco mail arrived at Auck« land yesterday, and the mails will arrive on Saturday. The Education Board in voting Ll5O for the North East Valley gymnasium, saidjthey would in future grant a subsidy of £ for £ on all gymnasiums, up to LI 50. The Board decided to pay half the costs of improvements to all schools who had applied for same. The delivery of. judgments in the Court of Appeal has , been further postponed for a week. Mungo John Douglas Tell, of the Bank of New Zealand, was committed for trial at Ashburton, for embezzling L 57, the property of the bank. Butler was yesterday found guilty of the murder of Weller. He made a statement that "Weller was trying to shoot himself, and in taking the revolver from" him, Weller accidentally Shot himself. After an hour and a-half's deliberation, the jury found him guilty. The judge passed sentence of death, and said he could not hold out the least hope of mercy. Early in the morning Butler was discovered in his cell bleeding very freely j he had obtained possession of a tin tag off a cake of tobacco, and had made a wound in his neck near the jugular vein. He was very violent, and had to be forced into court.

John M'Connochie, letter carrier, was committed for trial yesterday at Napier for stealing a letter containing one pound. There are no signs of the weather clearing at Napier. TLe rivers are rising rapidly, and matters are begin* ning to look serious. Archbishop Redwood was yesterday presented with four hundred soven reigns by the clergy and laity, on the occasion of his recent return from Rome. The pupils of the college also presented him with forty sovereigns. An enquiry is being held in Wei* liugton into the cause of the fire in Hayinan and Co's, but nothing transpired to show the cause. The rate of interest earned by the railways last financial year is the largest yet earned, being £3 3s lOd: The unemployed compositors at Wellington have been offered by the Government work at bush-felling or road-making. The Wellington Typographical Association are asking for some more suitable employment. Edward Blackwell Grace, at Auck* land, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Domestic trouble was the cause.

The Catholic Council is to be assembled in New Zealand before long, at which they will legislate on the affairs of the Catholic Church in the Colony. New Zealand is separate in this respect from Australia. At the Benefit Societies Commission sitting at Wellington, the Commission stated that of the eighteen soriecies whose affairs they had enquired into, the Bank of New Zealand was so far the worst.