NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6230, 6 September 1888, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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AtrcKiAND, September ' 4. A large number of mining exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibition from the Thames, Karangahape, Te Aroha, Maretoto, Whangamata, Waitekurl, and Walhi claims were received in Auckland to-day. They are splendid specimens and very rich both in gold and Bilver. The principal Bupply is from 'he Thames and Te Aroha. This quartz, whicb comprises 67 bexeß, is to be shipped to Melbourne by the s s Mararoa on Thursday. Wm. Noble and James Stoddart, alias Stewart, were charged at the Supreme Court to-day with stealing £117 from P. Brodie, landlord of the Naval and Family Hotel. After a lengthy trial prisoners were convicted of receiving the money knowing it to be stolen, and each waß sentenced to one year's imprisonment. David E. Porter, bank clerk formerly in the employ of the Colonial Bank at Cambridge, and who was arrested at Napier pleaded guilty to embezz'ing Bums amounting to £120 10s and was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. Auckland, September 5. The New Zealand stud mare Locket, dam of Necklace, Thunderbolt, Ac, died yesterday while foaling. The Eng'ish footb 11 team arrived this afternoon from Sydney hy the Manapouri. The Auckland Racing Club have re-ap-pointed J. D. Evett handieapper. The credi-ors of John Roberts, bankrupt, passed a resolution recommending the official assignee to take proceedings against him for fraudulent bankruptcy. Blenheim, September 4. A fire took place at midnight at Corbett's Temperance Boarding House in Maxwell road, when the proprietor and roost of his eight boar Hers were asleep. Provldentiallv, one of the boarders, Walker, a bi liardiar, returned lats, and on enterIng found a strange man on 'he sofa in the sitting room and the house full of smoke. He at once rousrd the landlord. In the confusion and smoke the man went away. In a minute or two the house was •' inflames, the boarders losing every; hingianflH the family only get'ing out in time house and n-arly all the cenlentSsps^ destroyed. The adjoining honsßS^(s|s! Rayner s) and the opposite one (D Glfigf* horn's) were saved with difficulty.".' -At^ 10 o'clock to-day constable F anklyn arrested a man at the Commercial Hotel on a charge of being illegally on the piemiaes. He proved te be a Dane, Peter J*cobßen He said he went into the boarding house fora bed, and could not make anybody hear, and then laid down. No evidence connecting him with the fire was adduced, but he was sentenced to 14 days in gaol. The insurance of Corbett's furniture is £85 In the Norwich Uuion office ; on the house £400 in the Liverpool, London, and Globe. Rayner's house is insured for £300 In the Royal. To the latter ouly about £4 worth of damage is done. Oamaktt, September 4 The h»lf -yearly Bit ing of the Supreme Court was held to-day before Judge Williams. Tlwre are four criminal cases, three cases of larceny and one of forgery. True bills were found against all the prisoners. James Skinner Gordon, charged with forging the name of Alexander Murdoch to a cheqne for £12 ard uttering the same, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years' hard labor. Robert Mahone, H«nry Munro, and Thomas Knight were charged with the larceny of a watch from the person of Alexander Marshall. The watch was taken from the owner in open day in one of the principle ttre^ts of the town. The jury found only Mahone guilty. Wbuington, .September 4. Mr M'Callum, who was engaged by Government to give instructions to those engaged in dairy industries, has been compelled, owing to ill health, to give up the undertaking. At a meeting in connection with the proposed institute of surveyors, thirty delega'es from all parts of the colony were present, and the meeting was presided over by Mr J. C. M'Kerrow, Surveyor Genera?. The proposed rules which had been drafted by the committee appointed for that purpose w-re read, and after discussion approved. The society was then formally incorporated with nearly 300 members. Wellington, September 5. At the inquest held this morning on the body of Florence Cromley, found in the harbor yesterday, the verdict waa "found drowned." A woman named Cane gave evidence to the effect that on Monday, about seven in the evening, she saw a man fall over the embankment at the back of the Opera House, but could not say whether he, fell into the water. She was too terrified to give the alarm. The coroner severely censured the woman for her conduct. Gisbokne, September 5. The jury found a verdict of guilty against John Baldwin for libel (three counts), and the accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. x.The case against Flora Baldwin has "Been withdrawn. The Chief Justice al}uded strongly to a man placing his wife in a position in which she could be put in the dock for a libel committed by himself. His Honor ■aid that those who bought the paper we-e

worse than the prisoner, who made hifl living by retailing the slander. New Plymouth, September 5. The Taranaki harbor board, at a meeting this morning, decided to strike a rate of Is in the £. The Hawera members protested against it, but the resolution was carried. Dunedin, September 4. A Chinaman, Lee Mon Sing, was found hanging in a room in a store in Stafford street this afternoon, and is supposed to have committed suicide. He was a miner, and had come from Gore on the previous day. He had been out for a walk with his brother at 3 o'clock, and then went to his room to have a sleep, but an hour afterwards he was found hanging from the ceiling, and life "was extinct.