NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1524, 6 January 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondents.] Dunedin, January 6. The criminal sitting of the Supreme Court, began this morning. The Judge'h charge merely referred to cases down for hearing. In the case of Jas. Miller, charged with fraudulently obtaining goods, his Honor directed the jury to • find a verdict of not guilty, as the goods were' . obtained a few minutes after he had filed, while the Act provided only for within four months, before the declaration of insolvency. Jas. Morgan pleaded guilty to forgery, l and' and sentence was deferred. In consequence of Ward's resignation, Gordom was appointed deputy-registrar. T. L. Shepherd hap been appointed clerk of the Court at Naseby, Mr Brewer being transferred to the clerkship of the Supreme Court here. A man mimed McMillan, released from g*aol on Saturday, died shortly after. Metz has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced to-morrow. [PEK PRESS AGraeiY.J Wellington, January 6, Mr James Gilligan, well known at Christchurch in connection with horse racing., and for many years a resident in the Wellingto,n district, died between nine and ten o'clock thj s morning. His illness was very short. The Supreme Court criminal sittings opened at ten to-day. The remarks of the Chief Justice were confined purely to cases on the calendar, which is light. Mr Barton, M.H.E., denies tne statement that he purposes practising in Auckland, and adds that he intends to remain in Wellington to pursue the quarrel between himself and the Supreme Court Judges, until a settlement in accordance with what he aud those who think with him believe to be just shall have been arrived at, omd then he will resume practice m Wellington. The oat crops on the East Coast have been almost destroyed by the high winds, the grain being blown, out of the ears. The " New Zealauder" snggests that in wn~ sequence of the high rates, of. rent in theaity,, some allowance should be made to married members of the police force. The " Gazette" to-day publishes the names of one hundred and sixty- six persons appointed as valuers under the Land Tax Bill. Auckland, January 6. A man named Pecknell met with a seriens accident at Newmarket on Saturday, while driving a dray from Auckland to Onehunga he fell off, and the wheel passed over his leg. He was conveyed to the Hospital, and the leg was amputated. W. H. Kisling, solicitor, aged 31, died last evening of typhoid fever. Deceased was a native of the colony, and a brother to the > manager of the Bank cf New Zealand.