THE CAIN MURDER TRIAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1535, 26 January 1887, Page 3

THE CAIN MURDER TRIAL.

* (united press association.) DUNEDIN, January 26. Stubbß, recalled, said he gave Cain brandy, not champagne, and it made biui Biok immediately. Hall was in the room three times only, and stayed a minute. He was positive that Cain was also sick after taking whiskey, not after champagne. Wm. Kay, who nursed Cain, said tbat Hall was a constant visitor after the New Tear. He never stayed in the sick room while -Hall was there, as be understood he bad business with the captain. He was oftener sick after a cough mixture . than anything else, and repeatedly com- - pained of it and refused to take it. He was sick after brandy and whiskey repetedly, nearly every night, but not for long. Remember giving Jackson some champagne from a bottle use for Cain ; had some himself once, and felt bad after.

The following members of the Patea Cricket Club are picked to play Hawera on Saturday next : — Gower (captain), Smith, Shove, McCarty, Paterson, Halse, Arundell, Thompson, Power, Wray, Banks, and Menfz. The club will also (the Mail says) play Manaia about the middle of February. The sensational story of big a tree (riimi) being discovered near Lake Brunner, 66ft in circumference, and the news of which has been telegraphed all over the colony, is (the Grey Star says) utter bosh. There certainly is a big tree in that direction, but its circumference does not reach 22fc, ' which is a long way out of the 66ft business. "We have received a long letter reflecting on the conduct of Cardinal Moran, in reference to the Mount Eennie outrage. We regret to say that Cardinal Moran (a circumstance not at all creditable to his judgment, we admit) is not a subscriber to the Star, and it is just possible tbat he r might net see the . letter. "We should therefore recommend our correspondent to address his letter to one of the Sydney papers. In any case, we cannot afford space for the letter ; tor probably no one in the district, save the writer, cares a brass farthing about what Cardinal Moran did or didn't to in relation to the particular matter referred to. - Conditions on which entries will be received for the ram and ewe fair are printed in another column, t •The Beady Money Warehousemen have' an advertisement calling attention to new stock to hand, to he sold at prices lower than ever. -

The Dunedin correspondent of the New Zealand Times says in reference to the Hall trial:— My own opinion is that a conviction is very improbable. I ana told that the foreman of the jury remarked to several people (of course long before he knew he would occupy such a position) that after carefully going through the evidence, he could not possibly say that it was conclvsive to his mind. If he still holds this view there must be either an acquittal or a disagreement. The latter is by no means improbable. It is said that one gentleman summoned as a juror has declared that he would not dare to find the prisoner guilty, and so cause him to be hanged, lest his ghost should haunt him for ever after. In case of a disagreement amony the jury, it is understood that a fresh trial will take place at Wellington. For remainder of reading matter, see fourth page.