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Evening Star, Issue 6029, 8 July 1882, Page 2

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HOME AND FOREiaN. [Reuter's Tklegbams,] MONETARY AND~COMMERCIAL. LONDON, July 6. Consols remain at 995. New Zealand securities are at the following quotations:—Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 106 ; 5 per cent. ISB9 loan, 106; i\ per cen*. 1879-1904 loan, 102. The bank rate of discount is unchanged at 3 per cent., and the market rate is ut 1\ per The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is L 12,750,000, being LI 37,500 less than the reserve last Thursday. Adelaide wheat is unchanged at 51s (ex store), and New Zealand do at 495. Adelaide flour is at 355. Best selected transparent kauri gum has declined to LlO. ARREST OF A SUPPOSED MURDERER. LONDON, July 7. The police have arrested a laborer named Carey on a charge of murdering the late Dr Kenny at Dublin on the 4th inst. The deceased, it has been ascertained, was formerly physician to the Irish Land League. The prisoner made a desperate resistance, and his capture was only effected with difficulty. THE HERO OF PLEVNA DEAD. ST. PETERSBURG, July 7. The death is announced of General Michael Skobeloff, aged thirty-nine.

m INTERCOLONIAL.

THE NEWCASTLE COLLIERS* STRIKE. SYDNEY, July 7. The Borehole miners have refused to resume work until the arbitrators have settled the questions referred to them.

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[Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 8. Tawhiao has written to Mr Dufaur, Winiata's counsel, alleging that at a banquet at Auckland on the occasion of his visit, Mr Whitaker said that all past troubles and causes of quarrels were to be forgotten from henceforth. He understood that was equivalent to amnesty for all past offences, and thinks the capture of Winiata treachery. The Auckland Stud Company refused LI.OOO for their Musket—Sylvia yearling filly. * WANGANUI, July 8. Detective Jeffreys, formerly of Auckland, has been suspended for sometime, and in consequence of certain irregularities the department gave him the opportunity of sending in his resignation on account of his long service. This he has done. In the case of Richardson v. Enderby, in which the defendant was charged by the sheep inspector with driving infected sheep on the highway, Mr Ward, E.M., gave judgment this morning, inflicting a minimum penalty of L 5 and costs. The case was previously heard on April 22, when the Magistrate dismissed it on the grounds that at the time of driving the sheep were covered by a clean certificate, but the decision was reversed on appeal. A similar penalty was i-■ ' flicted on Keith for the same offence. WELLINGTON, July 8. At the inquest on the body of Ellen Kenny, found drowned in the harbor ca Wednesday, a verdict of "Found drowned" was returned. INVERCARGILL, July 8. In compliance with a requisition the Mayor has called a meeting to arrange for a public reception to Sir Julius Vogel, who is expected to arrive from Melbourne on Monday. [From Our Own Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, July 7. At the Police Court to-day, before Mr Hardcastle, R.M., William Rattray, a clerk in the Native Reserves Office, was charged on remand with the embezzlement of L 27 10s, the property of the Government. Mr H. D. Bell, the Crown Prosecutor, appeared in support of the information, and Mr J. Sheehan for the defence.—Dr Johnston defwsed that he was lessee of some Native ands situated on the Adelaide road. He used to pay his rent at the Native Reserves Office at the Native hostelry in Molesworth street. In January, 1881, he paid a halfyear's rent, amounting to L 27 10s, at the office, but he could not remember to whom. He got the receipt produced signed " William Rattray," in the prisoner's handwriting. Alter looking at that receipt he had no doubt he paid the money to the prisoner. Sometimes paid the money to Major Heaphy, in which case he got a receipt signed by Major Heaphy. Mr Alexander M'Kay, the Governor's delegate appointed under the Reserves Act, 1862, deposed that the prisoner's duty was chiefly to attend to matters connected with tho Native Lands Court, but also- to matters I

connected with the Native reserves involving the receipt of rente. When rent was. mid to him, prisoner's duty would be to give a receipt for it, to get a countersigned receipt from the tenant, and to write a memorandum, stating the particularß,addressed to the Public Trustee. An entry should then be made in the cash-book, and the latter, with the amount and memorandum and the tenant's countersigned receipt, should be taken to the Public Trust Office. He produced the ledger, showing an entry by the prisoner on the debit side of the receipt of the amount in question from Dr Johnston. The amount was also entered on the credit side with the initials " J.M." or "J.CM." attached. The credit side was supposed to be initialled by the officer in the Public Trust Office, who received the money. —Mr .T. C. Mogini, accountant itt-ihe Public Trust Office, deposed that the rents of Native reserves were paid over by the Commissioner of Native Reserves to the Public Trust Office and received by him (witness). There was no memorandum in the office of the receipt of Dr Johnston's rent for the last half of the year 1880, and that rent was never received in the Public Trust Office. Witness believed that he did not write the initials "J.C.M." in the ledger produced from his office. He believed this because they were different from the way in which he wrote them, coupled with the fact that he fiever received the money. He had found three other cases | in which initials were signed purporting to be his, which were not written by him. In all of these cases he had not received the money. None of the witnesses were crossexamined, Prisoner was then further charged with embezzling LlB, the property of the Government, on May 20, 1880. I Prisoner' (who again reserved his defence) was committed on this charge also. Bail was allowed, himself in LIOO, and two sureties of L 25 in each case. The body of the young woman found drowned yesterday has been identified aa that of Ellen Kenny, a highly respectable Irish girl, aged twenty-one, unnmrned, staying at the house of her sister, Mrs Rees, in Mulgrave street, for some little time past. Circumstances since ascertained of the deceased's habits, etc., throw a good deal of light on what at first appeared a very mysterious affair. Deceased, it appears, was attended not long ago by Dr Diver for a comphvintnotunfcommon amongyoungwomen of the deceased's age. While the complaint i was at its height the deceased was frequently subject to fits of melancholy approaching lunacy, which, however, wore off afterwards. She was closely watched by a sister m the service of Mr Tolhurst, who frequently called at Mrs Rees's to see how the deceased was getting on. The young woman herself had been in service, arid it is believed to have been owing to her fits of melancholy induced by her indisposition which led to her being out of employment at the time of her death. Yesterday morning she opened the door of the house where she was residing and took in the milk, and then, as she often did, went for a walk at half past seven o'clock, She wasnotseen again until the body was found in the water. Dr Diver states that on driving along opposite the bottom of Featherstone road three days ago he observed at some distance off a young and tolerably well-dressed woman, whom he now believes to have been the deceased,' walking on the sands with the water over her shoes as if looking for shells. He supposed at thetime it was an invalid taking the sea air. Chief Detective Browne proceeded to the Morgue at ten o'clock this morning, accompanied by the sister of the'deceased (Mrs. Rees). The former had already identified the parasol and the earrings, and recognised the body itself at the Morgue. At the meeting of the City Council last night the Town Clerk mentioned that he had received a report from the Inspector of Nuisances in reference to the condition of the cemetery. He had forwarded this report to the cemetery trustees, and had received a reply from the secretary (Mr C. P. Powles), which he read. After acknowledging the receipt of the report, the letter continues:—" The trustees have made inquiries into the matter touched upon m the report, and find that the sexton was aware of the existence of the remains of a child's coffin; that' it had been lying in the bed of the Btream running through the cemetery for a long time—he thinks some two years. How it came there he did not know, but it was there when he was cutting some shrubs near the spot, and it must have been lifted out by someone and placed where seen -by the inspector. I examined the spot on Tuesday morning, and it was quite evident to me from the appearance of the grass and ferns upon which the coffin was lying that it had not been there long. Moreover, I often walk through the cemetery, and am sure I should have seen it had it been there many days. With reference to the other complaint, it is true that a very unpleasant smell is perceptible from a certain grave not far from the gate, and it is to be accounted for by the fact that a man employed by the sexton to dig a grave (the last' in which a body was buried in that locality) did not dig it where ordered, but went too close to one in which a body had only recently been interred, and the water draining into the newly-opened ground carried with it the smell from the decomposing body in the adjoining grave. The trustees will take care that such an occurrence does not happen again, having given instructions to the sexton not to open up ground in any part of the cemetery in which graves are so close together." To-day a Bill was introduced into Parliament with the object of enabling the Council to obtain another site for a cemetery.