LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 5 October 1887, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

G-reymouth, October 4. Malachi Taylor, of Brunnerton, brewer, was to day fined £10 and costs for a breach of the sixth section of the Beer Aot, 1880. Duneoin. October 4. The District ;lligh School at Port Chalmers have prepared an address to Sir Robert Stout regretting- his defeat, and asking- him for the sake of young New Zealand to reconsider his decision not to allow himself to be returned for another constituency. Chribtchohch, October 4. A murder was committed at Little River, on the verandah of Lake Poreyth Arms Hotel. Three Russian Finns working at Mr Coop's sawmill went to the hotel about nine o'clock. The men came in and stood there while a song wbb being sung, and then all three went into the dining-room, where they had some refreshment by themselves. Two of the men had words— the men's names were Matts Johansen, Nils Jacobson, and Andrew Hayman. After a time, however, the quarrel seemed to cease, L. eorge Robinsqn (half -caste) hav^g gone in to pacify them. They went out together at ten minutes to ten by the front door on to the verandah A short time afterwards a man named Leon, on going out, saw a man lying on the verandah as he thought dead drunk, and the big Finn (Jacobson) standing a short distance off ready for going away. Leon spoke to him, saying it was not right for him to leave his mate there drunk. The Finn replied in his own tongue, as Leon understood him to mean, to the effect that his mate was all right where he was. Leon then went in, but shortly after went out again with a man named Beay and a lad named Hitohens. Hitchens lit a match and looked at the supposed drunken man, and holding it to his face noticed it was ghastly white. Then they noticed blood on his clothes. Looking further they found the clothes in places were saturated with blood from dreadful stabs, one of which appeared to be right in the heart, and the other in the entrails just below the navel. They gave the alarm, and it was ascertained that the man was dead. George Kobinson saddled his horse and started in pursuit of the big Finn, and overtook him some 200 yards from the hotel, and he went up to him with a bottle .saying, " Mate, have a drink," threw the man quickly, being afraid of his knife, and bound him with a strap. On the others coming up he was taken to the lock-up. George Robinson meanwhile was after the other Finn, whom he found between Jobbings store and Coop's mill, This man came back quietly also, and they were both locked up. Nothing was found on them but some matches an<J tobacco. There was a little knife quite incapable of producing 1 the stabs found on the smaller man, and there was a slight wound on the right hand of thn bigger man, but this might havo boon uausnd by his falling on tho ground. 11 was at onco decided to communicate with Akaroa. The telegrapher called Akaroii, but without avail, and then there, was a di Mouldy in getting horses. It wan getting on for d'hrne a.m. when young Jlidclicns got away with blip nows. and ho readied Akaroa between six and seven a.m. ami at o,ii/se informed dhe police, who sent Constable (Jroukadd ofjt |,q the Jtiver. The body wan loft where it wao till tho arrivaj id tho constable, Thq inquest will be held at hoqh to-morrow,