THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 193, 16 August 1887, Page 2

THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, August 16. Inspector Shearman took over charge of the Auckland Police district yesterday. Inspector Thompson leaves for Wellington to-day. Tbia morning a fire took place in the fancy goods shop of S. S. Jones in Queen street. The stock was destroyed. It was insured for £500 in the Colonial. The fire was confined to Jones' shop, which is a portion of a brick block. The Hon J. A. Tole at Richmond Road (Newton), Mr J. A. Connell at Mount Roskill (Eden), and Mr S. S. Osborne at Onehunga (Manakau) each got a vote of thanks and confidence after their public addresses last night. A seven roomed house at Mount Roskill road was burned down last night. The building was insured for £300 and the furniture for £130, both in the New Zealand office. Christchurch, August 16. Frederick George Sibun, a barman at the Royal Hotel, shot himself last night. He was found thia morning lying in his room with a revolver in his hand and a bullet wound in the head. Auckland, August 16. A fishing boat was found upset on the north side of Chamberlain Island, both hands being missing. One man was named Watkins and the other is vnknown. Invercarg ill, August 16. The Supreme Court opened to-day before Judge Williams. The criminal calendar is very light, there being only tb-ee prisoners, all charged with forgery, four charges of forgery and two of embezzlement being preferred against J. R. Lea, late Town Clerk of Winton. In his charge to ibe Grand Jury the Judge referred to the case in wbich a man named Henry Coster altered a cheque for £2 given him by his brother to £3, and said it was a trifling case, and it was almost a pity there was not some provision enabling Magistrates to deal with such cases summarily, and so avoid the expense of bringing them into the Supreme Court, The Grand Jury found " no bill" in the case in question. At the Supreme Court J. K. Lea, late town clerk of Winton, pleaded guilty to four charges of forgery and two of embezzlement and received three years. An application to have him released under t';e Probation Act was refused, the Judge pointing out that he had been trading on his good name, and that the offences extended over a series of years. The defalcations, so far as is known, are £988. J. 11. Wilson, now undergoing two years in Dunedin gaol for forging, pleaded guilty to two more charges of the same nature, but urged that the crime was the result of drunkenness, and really been committed at J the same time as the others. He was sens

tenced to two years, to he concurrent with the present sentence, so that periodic cally he only gets an additional month's imprisonment. DUNEDiN, August 16. Mr James Speight, the weH known brewer, died to-day. Timaru, August 16. At the Supreme Court this morning before Mr Justice Johnston, the G^and Jury returned true bills agr.inst Rich' rd Makepeace Ever<**ley for latcony, and Thomas Terry for sheep stealing. The former is now being tried.