LATEST TELEGRAMS [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 85, 12 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Kaikoura, This Day. Kaikoura won the cricket match yesterday against Blenheim Wanderers by 16 runs. The excursionists were surprised at tho attractiveness of tho place, and very much pleased with the visit. X I UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, 11th April. A currier, lately in Ireland Brothers' employ, named Charles Wegenlebon, a German, shot himself in the Domain with a revolver. He came from Sydney last October, and was agoi 45. He has no relatives, and was lately discharged from tho hospital. Tho Te Aroha murder caso against Procofli will last several days. On hearing Sergeant Mulvillo's evidence, his Honor remarked that it was a grossly improper thing for a polioo officer to ask a prisoner questions of such a character. The witness said ho had no experience in such matters. His Honor went on to observe that, oven had prisoner been previously cautioned, tho interrogations wero of a character quite beyond the province of a police officer to put. Franois Campbell, an old journalist, formerly of Queensland, was found dead this evening in the office of the Froo Lance. Thi- Day. The Rev. Charles Pym has commdnced a series of discourses, chiefly to business men, in the New Zealand Insurance Company's buildings. Various Protestant ministers have commenced series of anti-Catholio lectures, under the auspices of the Orange Institution. The Yen. Archdeacon Maunsell gave the first last night, and the hall was crowded. The Auckland Society of Arts Exhibition closed to-night, after a very successful season. New Plymouth, 11th April. The first section of the Parihaka Block has been purchased by Mr. Robertson at the upset price of per aero. Mr. Parris, Civil Commissioner, contradicts the statement that any contagious disease is prevailing at Parihaka, and says that the statement about sixty deaths is incorrect. This Day. Last evening the passenger train from Ngaire to New Plymouth had a narrow escape. On arriving near Inglowood some of the firewood fell from a truck and got amongst the wheels, throwing the trucks off the line just as the train crossed tho bridge known as the second Ngatara bridge, about a mile and a half from Inglewoori. The sleepera of the bridge wero torn up. Part of the train was then disconuocted, and camo on into town without further impediment, except in running over a fine bullock. Thei o were 10 nominations for the Taranaki Champagno Stakes, and 18 nominations for the Taranaki Derby. Napier, 11th April. Nino Btaoks of wheat and barley on Ramsay's farm at Flaxmere wore de9troyod by fire. The fire is attributed to incendiarism. They were insured for £30<) in the New Zealand and J6250 in the Colonial Office. CHRIBTCHURCH, 11th April. Tho police have been making a raid on women of ill-famo Four wero sentenced to terms of imprisonment last week, and four more to-day, three of them belonging to one family. Some disgusting disclosures were made during the hearing of the case, which were very discreditable. A mother and children were all living together in one den of infamy. A business man wo'l-known in town is said to have taken a sudden departure by one of the New Zealand Shipping Co.'s vessels. A man named Dawdle mot with a gun accident whilst rabbit shooting, and died after amputation of the foot. ArhburTON, Uth April. Copious rains fell last night throughout the county, and great good has boon done to farmers. Great quantities of grain are now in stores in the township. Nearly all the grain stores are full. Dcjnedin, 11th April. At the criminal sessions to-day, Henry Paget, Post Office clerk, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for stealing from a letter. This Dat. In summing up the jury in Paget's case yesterday afternoon, Mr. Justice Gillies referred to the fact that the prisoner was debarred by law from giving evidence, and said that no one deplored this fact mora than he did. He thought it would tend to further the ends of justice if the evidence wero allowed ; it would be the means of punishing men oftencr than of relieving them. While, however, the Jaw prevented a man from giving evidence, it did not stop him from making a statement. The trial of Moritzson's case is fixed for the 20th. A man named John Mowat, labourer, w*a fonnd dead in his bed this morning, it is supposed from apoplexy. There is only one civil case this session at the Supreme Court. In tha Supremo Court to-day Joseph Gard was convicted of sheep-stealing. Mr. Stout moved for an arrest of judgment on the ground of tho improper admission of certain statements.