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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 707, 28 April 1883, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ! BY TELiGBAPH: ' buNEDIN, April 27 (9 a.m.) . - Mrs Massey was acquitted by 'die directicrt of the Judge. Massey was found guilty of stealing three pieces of paper. Sentence has not yet been given. ~, . Wain and wife have been coniAiitted for trial on a charge of manslaughter. . ; Latke, • Massey lias been sentenced to three years' imprisonment, which is the highest penalty for larceny. The expenses of the prosecution will be defrayed from his moneys, . Latest. , The proceedings in the Massey case this morning, at, Invercargill, began by Mr Fitchetb addressing the Judge on Massey's behalf, urging his long connection with tli<J Dunedin Corporation, etc., in. mitigation of His Honor, however, said he did not agree with Mr Fitchetfc. He thought it a very bad caße.., For a long series of years Massey had imposed o,n his fellow-citizens by an outward show, of respectability, and he had now made his own . wife the instrument of his crime, bringing'lier to the same moral level as himself. The punishment he could give was too light for the ofEence. It would be three years' penal servitudej which was the longest term possible for the offence of larceny. Mr Stout asked that the money found on Massey (which included d draft for L 200) should go to pay the expenses of the prosecution, , which His Honor assented to. Mrs Maasey appeared very dejected, and could hardly bo got to leave the dock. Daniel OorrisOn, Dispenser of tl)e Hospital, was found dead in his bed on, Thursday morning. The cause of death was heart-disease. Deceased (who was 50 years of age) had been Dispenser in the institution for eight years. , „ The Agent-General (in a despatch under date March Ist) states that he has now suspended forwarding emigrants to the Colony until June, and has withdrawn advertisements inviting applications. A fatal fire occurred at. Port Chalmers last night, a little girl; two yeiira old, named Holdeu, being burnt in the house, which waq destroyed, The father was away fishing; The mother lay down beside the child on the bed and fell .asleep. When the fire broke out she sprang up and rushed into the street, leaving the child to perish in the flames. Mr Bryco has corrected the report' of his speech as telegraphed from New Plymouth, in which he was made to say the King Country was opened up. What he did say, was—and he was careful to make the distinction—that the King Country might bo! considered open for surveys and for roads and railway purposes, but with regard to other surveys he anticipated considerable delay. At New Plymouth, the charge of arson < against T. S. Daniells, which has occupied the JJ.M. Court since Monday last, was brought to a close to-day by Daniells being committed for trial, bail being refusad,