LATEST TELEGRAMS (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 7th November.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 111, 8 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 7th November.

Two more burglaries have been committed, one at Miss Hainoa', tobacconist, where £16 was taken, and the other at Mrs. Barnes', at Aewton. A man named William Turner was arrested under peculiar circumstances early this morning, with his shoes off and an axe in his hand, which is believed to give a clue. He was remanded. This Day. The Zealandia, with the ontward San Francisco mails, ha 3 arrived at the Heads. Mr. Morgan and his stepson, N. M'Donald, were drowned yesterday by the capsizing of a boat at Whongarei Heads. Dunedin, 7th November. The New Zealand Pottery and Glass Company has received from the Government the bonus of .£250 for the first .£IOOO worth of household pottery manufactured in tho colony. New Plymouth, 7th November. At the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court this day, Thomas Campbell, charged with stealing a horse at Manaia, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, William Ralph Rose, for stealing £S from the whare of James Clark, was found guilty and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. The jury added a rider to their vordiot, to the effect that the conduot of the committing magistrate at Hawera, in allowing the document handed in by the prisoner and admitted by the sergeant of the police to be taken away from the Court, and not being produced on the trial, should receive inquiry at the hands of the Government. William Hopkinson, charged with stealing moneys from a fellowlodger in a boarding-house, was acquitted. The Grand Jury found no bill in tho caße of Coyle v. Gibson. Judge Gillies commented more than once on the eagerness of the police to convict persons of crime. He said tho object of the police should be to obtain justice, and not conviction. Westport, This Day. The Westport leit t ardiff on 4th September, and made the passage hore in G2 days 15 hours exact steaming time. She touohed at St. Helena and the Cape. Experienced bad weather nearly all the way, during which tho steamer proved a splendid seaboat. The Cardiff coal brought by the Westport is not equal to the local article. A dinner was given to Capta ; n Williams last night, and much congratulatory speech-making took