LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 79, 5 April 1881, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

«. | UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Christ church, 4th April. At the Supremo Court sessions to-day, the following sentences were passed :— Edward Lougtnore, larceny in dwelling, 12 months ; Goorge Douglas, larceny, three years' penal servitude; Edward Wells, larceny, six month* ; Henry Jackson, damaging a threshing machine, nine monthß. Gibson will be tried for Kerison's murder on Monday. The Superintendent of the Fire Brigade proposes to the City Council to establish a system of electric fire alarms, having twenty d\fEerent points, in the city ; and also to purchase one of the small chemical engines used in England and America. Tho total cost ho puts at £1050, to be contributed equally by the City Council, insurance companies, and general public The Customs revenuo for the month of Maroh was £27,367 17b 5d ; and for the quarter just euded £56,938 13s 4d. This Day. Typhoid f ev«r is very prevalent at Kaiapoi. One death from it occurred yesterday. In the Supremo Court this morning, Robt. Wyatt, for malicious injury to agricultural machinery, the property of his former employer, was sentenced to 9 months' imprisonment with hard labor ; John Beaufield, for shooting at John Spring, with intent to murder, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Prisoner, on leaving the dock, remarked that before he had been there a year they would Eec tho downfall of the crown of England. Auckland. This Day. The German warships Move and Habicht have arrived here to relieve the Nautilus and Hyena on the Pacific station. In the Supreme Court to-day James Dillon, for obtaining money on false pretences, wa3 sentenced to one year's imprisonment Thomas Walsh, an old offender, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for stealing from a bushman. Dunedin, 4th April. Thero was a passage at arms in the R.ftl. Court to-day between Mr J. E. Denniston and Mr. Townsend M'Dermott M'Dermott said hs would make Denniston eat the leek as his partner did, referring to his threatened action for slander against Mr. Downie Stewart and the latter'H apology. Denniston then referred to his learned friend as a lowbred ruffian. After a reproof from Mr. >impßon, R.M., both apologised to the Bench. Rain has been falling all day, and there iB no Bign of cessation. Country papers aro commenting on tho monopoly of goldfields by Chinese, who are now occupying all the available land in Dunstan and western districts The Dunedin city rates last year amounted to £17,000. Of this at the end of the financial year ending on 31st March, only £10 10s is outstanding', and for that sum judgment of the Resident Magistrate's Court had been obtained during March. By a mistake in shunting tho 5 40 a.m. goods train from Dunedin it was run into at Merton by a ballast engine. Two waggons and the cab of tho engine were damaged. No one was injnred. The driver of the ballast engine has been suspended pending enquiries. This Day. It is understood that Mr. Watt, K.M., will be transferred to Oamarn, consequent on Mr. Parker's retirement on a pension. Wasoahdi, This Day. Thirty-two nominations have beenroceived for the vVanganui Derby of 1854. The steamer Stormbird, when leaving port last night, went too close to the South training wall and touched the stones. Tho Clyde will be sent down at high water to tow her off. The extent of the damage is not known.