THIS DAY'S TELEGRAM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 322, 20 December 1887, Page 2

THIS DAY'S TELEGRAM

Westpobt, DecengßgffaHfl With respect to the alleged diWH| payable alluvial ground at MokibiiWM||l||| don and party, the prospectors, wri|^H^H| local paper that " while the P ro |^RMß| anything but remunerative underJ^flH conditions, we yetliope that with fH^HH duction of capital and the applioa^^^HH new method of working the ground SH&fl may possibly be made to pay." r £S^Bß| of this discovery telegraphed to MijU9^9| M.H.R. and communicated by hjHHjgH papers was exaggerated. Auckland, flfl^HH Three houses at Coromandel <w^^Saj Mrs Mclntosh were destroyed bnj^HH Saturday night. The occupanflHHHJ Wells, and Elsmore, with their9H|HP escaped with their lives but neafly^aTlThe furniture was burnt. There was no insurance, Invbrcabgill, December 19. At the Supreme Court John James Meikle for sheep stealing was brought up for sentence. He made a long statement alleging that he and hio eon were innocent. His Honor regretted that he could not give any credence to the accused's statement. He had been the head centre of a ring of plunderers in his district and his removal would be a relief to the community. He had trained his son to perjury and his servants to plunder, and in His Honor's opinion there was no honest farmer within ten miles of Meikle's neighborhood but would sleep the sounder because of his conviction. The sentence to be passed would release them of all fear of his depredations for some years to come and enable his son to reform. He wag sentenced to seven years penal servitude. Meikle has a large family of young children and his wife is .suffering from heart disease. In the case of Arthur Meikle, a son of the prisoner, also charged with sheep stealing, a noil.-, prosequi was entered, the Crown ProEecutor Btated that he regarded the son as a tool of his father's. This concluded the priminal business, The case of A 0. Henderson, iJeturniDg Offiper v Joseph Hate}} ex M.H.R., a claim for £1000 for libel, is now going on, Sir Bobert Stout, with Mr Hall, appears for the plaintiff, and Mr Deuniston for the defendant. BiiOTjr, December 20. The Fukaki sailed at 730 p.m. yesterday for Sydney via East Coast potts with 12,238 sacks of oats. Taubanga, December 20, A mail bag from Mota containing a considerable sum of money is missing. The matter is in the hands of the police. The Borough Council decided by way of retrenchment to reduce the Clerk's salary to £100 and to dispense with the engineer. Arrival of the Doric, Pout Chalmers, December 20. Arrived — Doric from Plymouth via Teneriffo, Capetown, and Hobnrfc after a passage of 42 dnys 11 hours and 22 minutes from Plymouth, inoluding 22 hours stoppages at ports of call. Bhe brings 23 saloon, 20 second suloon, and 71 steer ego passengers for this colony having landed 90 passengers at other ports dnriDg tbe vo3'»ge, Tbo general health haß been good nnd neither births nor dealh are to be recorded. Her cargo consis'.s in all of 23G0 tonp; divided ks follows: — 1060 tons for Otogo, 490 for Canterbury, 480 for Wellington, and 330 for Auckland. She is expected to sail to-morrow evening for Lyttelton, Sbe left Plymouth at 1*46 p.m. on November 4th { met a terrific gale across the Bay of Biscay, called at Toneriffe on the 10th and Capetown on the 26th, arrived at Hobart on December 15th afc 6*49 p.m., ani left again afc 9'lo a.m. of tho 16tb, anohoring off O:ago Ileafa at 9 40 p.m. on tho 19lb, and steamed into port this morning. There is no change in her officers since sbo last visited here,